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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of concretise.

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Examples

  • Even in less-Romantic modes (Rationalist or Modernist ones), yeah, you could maybe see the human scale narratives as ways of defusing, mediating or engaging with the strange in a similar fashion, by concretising it as the vast environment within which more finite, human-scaled struggles take place.

    Once More Into The Fray Hal Duncan 2007

  • The whole point about characters having the potential to escape "into eternity", to become unmoored from the straight-line track from cradle-to-grave as Platonic forms which can be (re) incarnated elsewhen and elsewhere, therefore, is to raise the question: is the whole idea of binding one's self into a graving -- of concretising one's identity, fixing it as an essential "soul" in order to make this immortality possible -- an artificial hobbling?

    On Existence And Eternity Hal Duncan 2006

  • The whole point about characters having the potential to escape "into eternity", to become unmoored from the straight-line track from cradle-to-grave as Platonic forms which can be (re) incarnated elsewhen and elsewhere, therefore, is to raise the question: is the whole idea of binding one's self into a graving -- of concretising one's identity, fixing it as an essential "soul" in order to make this immortality possible -- an artificial hobbling?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • The programme must have begun the process of identifying and concretising these possible opportunities from the planning stages.

    TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT: A NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE FOR SOUTH AFRICA 2003

  • The programme must have begun the process of identifying and concretising these possible opportunities from the planning stages.

    Contents: 2003

  • Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday in the latest step towards concretising the programme, endorsed at the 37th summit of the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • The conclusion of the process of concretising of our working partnership will take place in three months time from now when the two parties will sign a Memorandum of Agreement, giving legal and binding effect to the mutual commitment.

    ADDRESS BY DEPUTY PRESIDENT ZUMA AT THE LAUNCH OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN SUPPORT OF LOVELIFE 2001

  • The conclusion of the process of concretising of our working partnership will take place in three months time from now when the two parties will sign a Memorandum of Agreement, giving legal and binding effect to the mutual commitment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Minister of Health and Social Affairs of Sweden, concretising the implementation of future initiatives in the science and technology field between the two countries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • South Africa's Constitution already recognised self-determination, and attention now had to be given to ways of concretising this, he said in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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