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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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also
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The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons.
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From time to time Sendak has also authorized more modest theater productions.
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Fair or russet leather shoes and boots were also authorized .
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Supervisors also authorized staff to work out details and implement the program.
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The Commander-in-Chief agreed to the plan and also authorized Stirling to recruit a further six officers and up to forty men.
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Mr Florio also authorized aggressive new deals for some big advertisers, luring back General Motors in the process.
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Stirling also authorized the issue of fifty cigarettes to each man.
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act
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Part 2 of the National Insurance Act authorized technical retraining schemes for adults, but this was not implemented until 1925.
bill
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The Bill authorizing the conversion of a number of tram routes to trolleybus operation received Royal Assent on 31 July.
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In addition, the bill authorizes the General Services Administration to sell federal land in Florida that is considered surplus.
force
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The U. N. Security Council will be asked to authorize the force .
payment
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This was extended to officers who were allowed to authorize payments from source direct to naval tailors for their uniforms.
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The other names were those who could authorize payments .
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It was admitted by Mr Ward that the Board had not authorized the payment .
project
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To transform such funds into federal obligations, however, Congress must authorize such project funds.
state
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Carter authorized the State Department to try to find another asylum.
use
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A further Council of Ministers resolution adopted on Sept. 26 authorized the use of soldiers to assist in the harvest.
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Genette goes on to suggest that this authorizes the use of linguistic categories in the analysis of narrative discourse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Among other matters, the city council authorized more funds for additional police officers.
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Only Congress can authorize the President to declare war.
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Who authorized the decision to close the factory?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Stuart Marshall observed pointedly, postmodernism authorizes but has yet to create a new populism.
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He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized.
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His relatives and employees later said they had not authorized those contributions.
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It may authorize the chairman, or recommend that the chairman of the Select Committee should write to the responsible minister.
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The assistance is in addition to the $ 22 million the president authorized March 4.
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The state Public Utilities Commission authorized the rates.
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The willingness to bend the rules to authorize a major invasion of civil liberties contrasts sharply with the Spycatcher case.
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Woolsey served on the Petaluma City Council when the flood project was authorized after the devastating floods of 1982-83.