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Target Role: society

Source Role: battlefield

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Target Role: social_problem

Source Role: enemy_attack

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Target Role: authorities

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Target Role: public_officials

Source Role: army

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Target Role: immoral_citizens

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Target Role: police_weapons

Source Role: weapons

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Target Role: social_programs

Source Role: war_strategies

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Target Role: honest_citizens

Source Role: civilians

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Target Role: solving_problem

Source Role: victory

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Target Role: spread_of_problem

Source Role: enemy_conquest

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Target Role: power_to_solve_problems

Source Role: power_of_weapons

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Target Entailment: attempts to address social problems can have different outcomes: the problem may be eliminated, stay the same, or get worse.

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Type of Inferential Structure: wars can have different outcomes: a particular side may win, draw, or lose.

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Text: The most powerful weapon in the war against obesity might be something we all understand: cold, hard cash.


Provenance: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmaris/2012/05/07/cash-as-weapon-in-the-war-against-obesity/

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Text: How America's losing the war on poverty


Provenance: http://www.npr.org/2012/08/04/158141728/how-americas-losing-the-war-on-poverty

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Comments: entailment of general metaphor: inability to address social problems is losing the war


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Entailmentattempts to address social problems can have different outcomes: the problem may be eliminated, stay the same, or get worse. (?, wars can have different outcomes: a particular side may win, draw, or lose., SUCESSFULLY ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS WINNING A WAR) +
ExampleEnglish (The most powerful weapon in the war against obesity might be something we all understand: cold, hard cash., ?, ?, http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmaris/2012/05/07/cash-as-weapon-in-the-war-against-obesity/, ?, ?, ?) + and English (How America's losing the war on poverty, ?, ?, http://www.npr.org/2012/08/04/158141728/how-americas-losing-the-war-on-poverty, ?, entailment of general metaphor: inability to address social problems is losing the war, ?) +
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Has target frameFrame:Addressing social problems +
Mappingsociety (battlefield, ?) +, social_problem (enemy_attack, ?) +, authorities (generals, ?) +, public_officials (army, ?) +, immoral_citizens (enemy_combatants, ?) +, police_weapons (weapons, ?) +, social_programs (war_strategies, ?) +, honest_citizens (civilians, ?) +, solving_problem (victory, ?) +, spread_of_problem (enemy_conquest, ?) + and power_to_solve_problems (power_of_weapons, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS WAGING WAR (?) +
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Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
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Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Addressing social problems +
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Related metaphorhas as transitive subpart 1 (DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR, ?) +, has as transitive subpart 2 (SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES, ?) + and is both a source and target subcase of (NEGATIVELY EVALUATED CONDITIONS ARE HARMFUL AGENTS, ?) +
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