I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a campaign fund (= for helping a political party or person to get elected )
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These social events help to raise campaign funds.
a campaign rally (= a rally to support someone who is competing in an election )
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She will attend four campaign rallies in the state before returning to Washington.
a campaign speech (= given during a political campaign )
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Eisenhower was careful in his campaign speeches to use only the vaguest of phrases.
a campaign/election promise
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He was accused of breaking a campaign promise not to raise taxes.
a campaign/election slogan
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His campaign slogan was ‘Peace, stability and prosperity’.
a media campaign (= when something is deliberately reported or advertised in the media a lot )
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a media campaign aimed at reducing drunk driving
a plan of campaign British English (= a plan to achieve something )
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What we need now is a plan of campaign.
a propaganda campaign
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The Tories mounted a massive propaganda campaign against the Labour leader.
advertising campaign/strategy
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a major advertising campaign
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the advertising slogan ‘Come alive with Pepsi’
an election campaign
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The election campaign got off to a bad start.
an election/campaign/manifesto pledge
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The governor had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.
an unsuccessful campaign
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He quit politics following his unsuccessful presidential campaign.
bombing campaign
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The southwest of the country suffered an intensive bombing campaign .
campaign spending
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Should there be stricter limits on campaign spending?
campaign/election trail
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politicians on the campaign trail
conduct a campaign
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The party was criticized for the way it had conducted its election campaign.
fight an election/a campaign
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The prime minister decided to fight an early general election.
general election campaign
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during the 1987 general election campaign
hate campaign
lead an investigation/inquiry/campaign
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The investigation will be led by Inspector Scarfe.
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They are leading a campaign to warn teenagers about the dangers of drug abuse.
mount a campaign/challenge/search etc
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Friends of the Earth are mounting a campaign to monitor the illegal logging of trees.
plank of an argument/policy/campaign etc
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the main plank of their argument
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a central plank of our policy
smear campaign
wage a campaign/struggle/battle etc
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The council has waged a vigorous campaign against the proposal.
whispering campaign
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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In three successive general election campaigns , the Conservative party has promised higher standards in education.
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He said Likud would make this the center of its upcoming general election campaign .
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In the general election campaign of 1929 the Liberals were challenged by the Conservatives to explain where the money would come from.
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Sir Julius confirmed that the investigation would also examine the use of government resources and assets during the recent general election campaign .
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This was part of a general campaign for education; the enemy of progress was ignorance.
major
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Nor there are signs that another major campaign is beginning to take shape.
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Immigration is shaping up as a major presidential campaign issue this year especially in California.
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Alan Duncan, who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign .
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Because the other candidates had surrendered Texas to Gramm, none had major campaign organizations in the state.
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The release of a single by a new act doesn't usually result in a major marketing campaign .
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Clinton has urged bipartisan congressional passage of a major campaign finance bill co-sponsored by Sens.
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Through a major media campaign it is seeking to obtain funds by raising public awareness of the museum's past history.
national
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Following the trial last year a national campaign was launched to try to change the law.
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Faced with the fear of more profound disorders, Washington may finally launch an all-out national campaign .
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She works for a national campaign on homelessness.
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There are no national campaigns , no national candidacies to mobilize voters.
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And national campaign finance reform began to work its way through the U. S. Congress.
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This preceded the national campaign in the United Kingdom, which began in November 1991.
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I still believe that these will represent two basic elements of a successful national campaign .
political
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That's what image means and it's what we try to do in political campaigns .
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The groups were planning lectures, amassing a mailing list and organizing as though for a political campaign .
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He is planning a new levy of 15 cents a month from each union member, to be spent on political campaigns .
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And his political resurrection offers campaign salvation to Bob Dole, whose presidential candidacy Atwater helped to destroy in 1988.
presidential
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Bush will make this the dirtiest presidential campaign ever fought.
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So much money had been put into circulation because of the presidential campaign that inflation was rampant.
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This tilt to unilateralism was a feature of both the Bush and Gore presidential campaigns .
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What is more, the lawmakers seem ready to move despite the political heat of a presidential campaign season.
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In a perfect world, presidential campaigns should leave the judiciary alone.
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The 1996 presidential campaign has been the dullest in 40 years.
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The 1952 presidential campaign made history of sorts by introducing the first political television commercials to sell a presidential candidate.
successful
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The president responded by bashing his rivals and the rich, a tactic that proved successful during his campaign .
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Financially, Peter and I had had a successful campaign together.
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I hope that the museums are successful in their campaign against it.
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We countered with a successful campaign to convince the young lawyers section to take a pro-ERA stance.
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The successful campaign to introduce commercial television into Britain in the 1950s is a good example of this.
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Barbour is now Republican national chairman, and Stevens went on to a string of successful campaigns , including those of Sens.
■ NOUN
advertising
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Police hope the bus advertising campaign will help heighten public awareness of Operation Blade.
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A very much smaller advertising campaign was therefore mounted in the press and on commercial television.
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As far as she could remember they'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign .
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What would we think of an advertising campaign for glue that concentrated in its aromatic qualities?
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It is however essential for the drinks industry to ensure that its advertising campaigns do not target vulnerable groups such as young people.
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Among incentives for companies to co-operate is the promise of an official endorsement which could be used in advertising campaigns .
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A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign .
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Membership Promotion During the Winter/Spring 1991/2 an advertising campaign was run to promote membership, generating over 1,000 enquiries.
contribution
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First, their case focused attention upon the ambiguous ethical relationship between campaign contributions and political favours by elected officials.
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His lawyer says he was entrapped by overzealous prosecutors who wrongly characterized campaign contributions as bribes.
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Texas puts no limits on campaign contributions by lobbyists, or on spending by candidates.
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Since my first days in the Congress, I have supported efforts to turn off the faucet of big-money campaign contributions .
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So far at least two cabinet members have confirmed acceptance of campaign contributions from the pachinko industry.
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As recipients of generous campaign contributions , elected officials are unwilling to effectively regulate the firearms industry.
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His legal fees are being paid through his campaign contributions .
dole
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Bartlett sells his idea as a lifesaving tonic for the Dole campaign .
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The Dole campaign did not respond to requests for interviews.
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More generally, the logistical strengths that the Dole campaign had counted on began to come good.
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Under no circumstances, however, should the Dole campaign let Buchanan speak during prime time at the Republican Convention.
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But, however painfully, the Dole campaign is taking shape.
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John Buckley, once a Kemp press secretary, is director of communications for the Dole campaign .
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The Dole campaign proposed last Thursday that the pair conduct four one-hour debates.
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The Dole campaign plan is, in fact, Dole himself.
election
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This election campaign has been criticised for being negative.
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There are growing doubts about the ability of money to win election campaigns .
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During the election campaign Bush was careful not to say outright that he would bring the boys home from the Balkans.
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The 1990 election campaigns are confirming that this lesson was well learnt: candidates are indulging in ghoulish rivalry in support of execution.
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Thompson also lost the election campaign .
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In the general election campaign of 1929 the Liberals were challenged by the Conservatives to explain where the money would come from.
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This is the respondent who, though concerned about interparty marriage, is indifferent about election campaigns .
finance
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That's why he has spent 14 years in the Senate pushing for campaign finance reform.
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Indeed, while many industries benefit from the current corrupt system of campaign finance , no other industry benefits more directly.
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The first effort at campaign finance reform was a product of the progressive era almost a century ago.
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The first is to push campaign finance reform to early passage.
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The newspapers are again filled daily with examples of campaign finance corruption.
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But conspicuously missing from their agenda was campaign finance reform.
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Clinton has urged bipartisan congressional passage of a major campaign finance bill co-sponsored by Sens.
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And national campaign finance reform began to work its way through the U. S. Congress.
manager
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But the Lexington goes to Bay Buchanan, sister and campaign manager of Pat, for her low-budget bravado.
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Buchanan is his own speech writer and ideas man; his sister Bay is campaign manager .
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But it need hardly be said that voters sometimes disappoint candidates and campaign managers .
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He had a campaign manager , banners, palm cards, even musical groups singing for him.
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Smith's campaign manager , Robin Cook, appears confident that his candidate will come round to endorsing electoral reform.
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Brown campaign manager Jack Davis called the resume item a lie.
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The President took a call from Sig Beller, our campaign manager .
money
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He would have no difficulty raising campaign money .
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Even Libertarians, who advocate much less government, are happy to accept public campaign money .
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Axel raises campaign money and advises candidates, including Adlai Stevenson, the Illinois governor who lost the presidency twice to Eisenhower.
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Romley also said he will investigate whether it was legal for Woods to use campaign money to pay the settlement.
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Likewise, not having raised a single cent in campaign money seems, in retrospect, a mistake.
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But the audacity practiced by Democrats and Republicans in raising and spending campaign money in this campaign was unprecedented.
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Both major parties are suffering a crisis of public confidence over how they raise and spend campaign money .
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John Bryant despite having little political experience and relatively no campaign money .
publicity
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A full publicity campaign would initially be essential.
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There will be absolutely no publicity campaign .
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Why did you invite me all the way out here from London to mastermind your publicity campaign , Roman?
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It is also clear that people did not crowd into the mission on Azusa Street because of a skillfully crafted publicity campaign .
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Despite a major publicity campaign , only a few people thought they'd seen her or even spoken to her.
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Undeterred, Barnes launched an extensive publicity campaign amongst members.
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I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels, and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks.
trail
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On the campaign trail , his oratorical skills have left much to be desired.
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But despite his absence his spectre dominates the campaign trail .
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In the first 28 days of September, Clinton spent 18 days on the campaign trail visiting 21 states.
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George Bush went to great lengths to keep out of his way on the campaign trail .
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Now, other politicians on the campaign trail and on Capitol Hill are scrambling to get on the economic insecurity bandwagon.
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The flood of credit will be increased this year by all the promissory notes Mr Yeltsin dished out on the campaign trail .
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Six months ago, Pete Wilson wanted to beat the daylights out of Bob Dole on the campaign trail .
■ VERB
advertise
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Of course, the statue of Michael Jackson, too, is a monumental advertising campaign .
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A new consumer product must be introduced with a suitable advertising campaign to arouse an interest in it.
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Last week, ministers launched a Pounds 6.5m advertising campaign to raise awareness about stakeholder.
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The group announced an advertising campaign to bring public pressure on lawmakers to sign the pledge.
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Can there really be worldwide advertising campaigns ?
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Cosby and his new series are likely to be at the center of a very different advertising campaign come September.
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Deliberately frustrate any desires that may be the result of an advertising campaign .
begin
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Every few years the industry begins a campaign , backed in medical journals, for release from its shackles.
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More recently, Lychner began a campaign to pay for the voluntary castration of paroled child molester Larry Don McQuay.
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Read in studio Police have begun a campaign against car tax dodgers.
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Wilson and congressional conservatives began their campaign to end it.
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Payne, 30, began the hate campaign after receiving pest calls herself, and wrongly blaming the Todds.
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He began preparing for the campaign early.
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Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office.
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Texas political observers said Forbes has not begun a campaign here.
bomb
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More than 2m copies have been sold, and it has helped spawn bombing campaigns across the world.
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Nixon meanwhile began the Christmas bombing campaign against Hanoi.
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He has watched aghast as the Hamas bombing campaign has killed 57 people in nine days.
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He ordered bombing runs and battlefield campaigns from the White House.
conduct
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And still larger sums have been expended in conducting a campaign against us outside of Ontario.
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There is an obvious danger of excessive duplication when broadly similar organizations conduct broadly similar campaigns .
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You conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
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In any event, the prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, is conducting an impressive campaign .
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He has conducted a campaign , full knowing his Cabinet post was in jeopardy whether or not the Conservatives win on Thursday.
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Johnson had steered himself into a position of strength from which to conduct his campaign in the election of 1964.
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Just as important, it was a piece of indiscipline that illustrated the almost casual way Labour is conducting this campaign .
fight
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Mr Major, they said, had fought an appalling campaign and Mr Kinnock a superb one.
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He fought the 1987 election campaign .
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Labour in 1983 under Michael Foot fought a disastrous campaign .
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Nellist has fought an aggressive campaign on his Parliamentary record and flooded the area with leaflets - 20,000 distributed yesterday alone.
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Mr Kinnock fought a good campaign .
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Her father, Ron Smith fought a long campaign for the investigation to be heard in this country.
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Residents have fought a long campaign to stop some motorists using the roads as a race track.
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Rather they fight guerrilla campaigns , as befits their savagery, which are extremely difficult to subdue.
fund
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Ministers are planning to fund an advertising campaign to highlight the risks of drug-driving.
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State funding of campaigns is under consideration.
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Money raised would fund our campaign to lobby relevant authorities internationally and engage in public education.
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Capitalists command disproportionate influence over state agencies and funding for public campaigns .
launch
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So they've launched a nationwide fundraising campaign using a comic featuring wildlife.
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Faced with the fear of more profound disorders, Washington may finally launch an all-out national campaign .
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Republicans accused the Democrats of launching a smear campaign .
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So she launched a campaign against the test results.
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The Metropolitan Police are government-funded, but even local forces could probably launch such campaigns if necessary.
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But the speech officially launches a seven-week campaign that pits Riordan against state Sen.
lead
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Meanwhile, however, the lack of adequate community care facilities has led to a campaign to save the old mental hospitals.
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They invited proponents and opponents and key people who were leading both campaigns ....
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Jumblatt decided to lead the campaign against the army being given too much power.
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Brown led the opposition campaign , and later criticized the media for creating a negative image of the Legislature.
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In 1987 he had led a campaign for the extradition of drug traffickers.
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Britain and the United States have been leading a global campaign against the junta's oppression of the country's 46m people.
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The two people, in fact, who lead the campaign against me!
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The man who led the campaign for the ban says such barbaric activities had to be stopped.
mount
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It talks about the role of the headteacher, and how to mount effective campaigns for changes in school policy.
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Citizen groups have mounted campaigns to silence the drug ballads in several states, but the popular songs play on.
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Over five months in 1991 the group mounted a terror campaign across three counties.
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Now and then she mounted a short lived campaign to achieve a new look.
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Trade unionists were incensed with the act and mounted a campaign against it in 1927.
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Chemical and agribusiness trade groups have mounted an aggressive campaign on Capitol Hill.
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Alternatively, was it due to the fact that the Labour did not mount an effective campaign against its position?
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Fishing industry organisations have mounted a campaign against the bans, claiming that up to 30,000 jobs are at risk.
plan
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So I planned our campaign carefully.
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Clinton has visited the state 22 times in three years and plans a campaign swing next week.
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Many had planned future campaigns on the basis of sustained growth.
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To reach their ambitious subscriber goals, the two companies plan markedly different image campaigns .
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Even to the jaundiced eyes of veteran Washington reporters, this is mighty early to be planning a presidential campaign .
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They plan to take their campaign to the House of Lords in an attempt to finally get some answers.
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It is also sensible to plan a follow-up campaign with key media.
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P.S. We can plan our campaigns more effectively if we have a regular income.
run
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In conjunction with our radio broadcasts, we often run the campaign in the local press and Evening News.
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The two joked about running a joint write-in campaign , then started to take the joke seriously.
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But it's also true that opponents will be free to run and campaign .
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Forbes aides said that the candidate is not just running a television campaign .
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He runs a clever grassroots campaign based on small contributors and free radio time.
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They gather nominating petition signatures for lawmakers, raise money for them and sometimes even run their re-election campaigns .
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A concatenation of events particularly damaging Mrs Thatcher was subsequently compounded by errors of tactics and organisation by those running her campaign .
spend
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It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns .
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They see money spent on political campaigns as money well spent.
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He is planning a new levy of 15 cents a month from each union member, to be spent on political campaigns .
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He later concluded that too little is spent on campaigns .
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For example, they will be prevented from spending public money on campaigns to stop them.
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Observers expect millions of dollars to be spent on the initiative campaign .
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There are regulations governing how much can be spent during election campaigns .
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With matching funds from the city, Hughes has more than $ 21, 000 to spend on her campaign .
wage
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But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.
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Both sides are waging public relations campaigns .
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They have waged a campaign against Town.
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The AFL-CIO waged a million-dollar television campaign against the measure, and threatened to target House and Senate lawmakers who supported it.
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Buchanan, by contrast, has waged a vigorous Arizona campaign , wooing voters with his anti-immigrant, anti-corporate and anti-Washington themes.
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I agree with my hon. Friend that Hampshire county council waged an extremely vigorous campaign against the proposal.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sales drive/campaign
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Both firms have announced small computers and plan big sales campaigns.
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Independent laboratory tests and a pilot sales campaign have confirmed that AirX works very successfully.
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The sales drive was interrupted by a legal hiccup.
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The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
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Valuable information such as company sales statistics or previous sales campaign studies can come from the client himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All kinds of extravagant promises were made during the election campaign .
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Clark's vigorous campaign against the dumping of nuclear waste will continue.
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During his years as a human rights campaigner he was arrested seven times.
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Environmental groups launched a campaign against the widespread production of genetically modified crops.
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Motoring organizations have started a campaign for safer roads in the area.
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Our campaign against drug abuse is supported by the medical profession.
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Richards and his team have already started planning his campaign for election as party leader.
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the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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the campaign for prison reform
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The company has launched an advertising campaign in the hope of attracting new customers.
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The company has spent over £50 million on its latest advertising campaign .
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The government's campaign to recruit more black police officers has not been a success.
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The government does not want this kind of bad publicity in the middle of an election campaign .
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the governor's election campaign
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Throughout the campaign , Baldwin looked the most likely to win.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At home, Edna was in her final campaign against Jane Ming-li, who continued to defy the new order.
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Hopefully in the future it will become standard public relations practice to use research to measure the results or achievements of campaigns.
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No one asked me about follow up phone calls made to me by their offices, standard procedures for campaigns.
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Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush's re-election campaign .
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The same anti-fashion pose will soon be used on other campaign themes.
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The team also launched its season-ticket campaign by making brochures available to fans.
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Voters report that they learn more about presidential candidates from the nationally-televised debates than from any other campaign event.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
vigorously
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The Association of Carers is campaigning vigorously on their behalf for more professional and financial support.
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Dole campaigns vigorously against federal mandates that require states to provide stipulated social benefits or meet a variety of federal guidelines.
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Party sources said leader David Trimble would again campaign vigorously for Mr Burnside.
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I am delighted: it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years.
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Shadow community care minister David Hinchliffe is campaigning vigorously for a change in the law.
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The artist's daughter Mary Moore had campaigned vigorously against the proposed work.
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He campaigned vigorously against the use of drugs and injected new life and efficiency into sports administration.
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party
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The liberal Yabloko party campaigned for another former prime minister, Sergei Stepashin.
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This time the party campaigned more effectively for the treaty and 60% of its supporters voted Yes.
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The Green Party is campaigning on the simplest of tickets in this election ... the need to save our planet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After months of campaigning, local parents have persuaded the council to provide a school bus service.
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He was one of the people who campaigned to change the law on homosexuality.
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The Prime Minister will be campaigning in Scotland next week.
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Women campaigned for equal pay and equal rights throughout the 1960s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Drivers like Yvonne have campaigned to change the law.
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I believe we should support responsible organisations campaigning on behalf of animals for two reasons: 1.
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Just possibly, the politicians might begin debating that as they campaign for November's mayoral election.
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Most fundamentalist churches disapprove of homosexuals, and many leaders of the religious right have aggressively campaigned against gay rights.
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Or the business interests that provide campaign cash and are more philosophically in tune with the congressional leadership?
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That, as pressure groups, they are free to campaign openly for the changes, Mrs Whitehouse accepted.
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While Dole has been campaigning more aggressively lately, so has the Clinton camp.