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Examples of machinery

machinery
Based on these predictions, labour requirement, number of machineries and funds can be estimated and then appropriate plans be prepared.
Such industrial action often threatened the entire law and order machineries in the mill towns.
To propagate successfully, they must exploit numerous machineries of the infected cell.
Institutions for ensuring accountability are weak (disciplinary boards, audits, monitoring machineries, etcetera), as are external checks such as parliament or the courts.
Separate machineries exist for workshops, professional and technical staff, and for managerial staff.
Cellular structure, molecular machineries and metabolism are essential for self-sustainable life.
Another reason could of course be shortcomings in the available theoretical machineries.
At the very least, it required 'an independent machinery of publication'.
Related reforms ought to include the reintroduction of the merit principle in determining promotions, as well as the establishment and use of stronger disciplinary machinery.
The use of heavy machinery played havoc with the soils, while on the whole mechanization in the agricultural sector remained far from comprehensive.
The councils where one political party has control, however, develop a parallel structure of policy-making alongside the formal machinery of committees and council.
The apparently untidy structure of the machinery of government, and its constant alteration, reflect the objectives of the political elites.
They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it.
All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the invention of those who had occasion to use the machines.
Prolonged industrial conflicts often produced widespread confrontations between law enforcement machineries of the colonial state and poorer urban dwellers.
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Collocations withmachinery

machinery

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administrative machinery
The yearly subsidies from the central treasury (excluding loan and assistance) keep afloat the administrative machinery of the regional governments.
agricultural machinery
This created better opportunities for the intensification of production by the use of scientific methods and agriculturalmachinery.
automated machinery
The underlying assumption of many manufacturers was that automated machinery was generally more trustworthy than the skilled artisan.
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