capitalize on sth

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capitalize
To date, the fund has been capitalized by government and donor sources.
Other biological studies have also capitalized on the classificatory property of regression trees.
The survivors were seen as a useful political tool to obtain immediate immigration rights by capitalizing on international sympathy, and edging closer to statehood.
Whether this is true is unclear; however, more important, this particular narrative made sense to judges and juries, and defendants capitalized on this narrative.
They maintained these enclaves for one-half century by capitalizing on their influence in the federal government and the national party.
He capitalized on the gains accruing from the credibility of the literati and used this symbolic capital to underpin his religious claims.
Therefore, substance use is reduced if reinforcers for abstinence, such as satisfying work or improved social relationships are capitalized, frequent, and contingent upon not using.
As the stock-market novel of the "sensational sixties" capitalized on villainous speculators, it undoubtedly continued to create typecast crooks but also stimulated spins on them.
Further, unlike grammar-translation methods, there was no capitalizing on learner's metalinguistic abilities or explicit instruction.
The following case illustrates how a losing group capitalizes on their interest in regaining dominance by enlarging the conflict.
Consequently, resolution of a fractious stool dispute was made secondary to implementing an indirect rule experiment and capitalizing on burgeoning cocoa production.
We therefore devised a training programme which capitalized on the health technology approach.
The paradigm capitalizes on the logic of psychological priming experiments.
They sought to reinject the project into the policy process by capitalizing on the diverse opportunities to counsel the king.
By capitalizing on this we can thus evaluate the degradation in performance of the two parsers along the increase of complexity of the domain.
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