I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a general/national election (= one in which the whole country votes to elect a government )
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Labour’s victory in the general election gave them a huge majority.
a local/national/statewide etc poll
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Local polls show him leading by only two or three points.
a national characteristic (= typical of the people of a country )
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Organization is often seen as a German national characteristic.
a national celebration
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The flag flies for a national celebration.
a national centre for/of sth
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The gardens are a national centre for botanical research.
a national champion
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At 16, Gallois is France's youngest national champion.
a national charity (= one that operates throughout a country )
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Help the Aged is a national charity representing older people.
a national coach (= for a team that represents a whole country )
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Davies was the national coach up to the 1995 World Cup.
a national collection
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France has many national art collections.
a national conference
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Brazil’s national conference on health
a national dance
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The Tango is Argentina’s national dance.
a national disaster
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The Labour Party called the new government 'a national disaster'.
a national hero
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They regard Aung San as a national hero and martyr.
a national newspaper
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The story was in all the national newspapers.
a national obsession (= an obsession that the whole country has )
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In Britain, the weather is a national obsession.
a national paper
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The story had been in all the national papers.
a national quota
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Five countries maintained national quotas on imports of Japanese cars.
a national resource
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High-quality agricultural land is a national resource.
a national survey
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A national survey revealed that one in four 15-year-olds smokes regularly.
a national/federal commission
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the National Commission on Terrorism
a national/international/European etc competition
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Her oldest daughter has taken part in national competitions.
a national/nationwide campaign
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The walk was part of a national campaign to raise £900,000.
a national/nationwide chain
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He was head of a national chain of grocery stores.
a national/nationwide strike (= all over the country )
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In April 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers called a national strike.
a national/world shortage
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There is likely to be a world shortage of timber in the future.
be national/international/global in scope (= include a whole country, several countries, or the whole world )
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Some markets are local while others are national or international in scope.
central/national government (= that deals with national rather than local things )
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Funding will continue to be available from central government for further education for adults.
gross national product
local/national importance
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Crime is an issue of national importance.
local/national/international coverage (= provided by local, national etc media )
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Bangladesh doesn't get much international coverage.
national anthem
national concern
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The lack of good cheap public transport is a matter of national concern.
national costume
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The dancers were in national costume .
national costume
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folk dancers in national costume
national culture
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Sport is a major part of our national culture.
National Curriculum
national debate (= one that involves everyone in a country )
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It is time to start a national debate on the future of the health service.
national debt
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The government taxed fuel highly in order to finance the national debt.
national dress
national emblem
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The national emblem of Canada is a maple leaf.
national fame
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Her oil paintings won her national fame.
national grid (= the electricity supply in a country )
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the national grid
National Grid
National Guard
National Health Service, the
national honour
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For him this is a matter of both personal and national honour.
national independence
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The struggle for national independence lasted over 20 years.
National Insurance
national legislation
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National legislation defines the powers of local authorities.
national loyalty
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National loyalties can be a cause of conflict between countries.
national monument
national park
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Yosemite National Park
national politics
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Mark had always been keen to have a career in national politics.
national pride (= pride in your country )
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A flag is a symbol of national pride.
national publicity
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Candidates aim to get national publicity during election campaigns.
national radio
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He even went on national radio to defend himself and his players.
national register
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Police want a national register of DNA samples.
national security
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The number of people who join the army is so low that it is beginning to threaten national security.
national service
national statistics
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National statistics greatly underestimate levels of heroin use.
national stereotypes
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Such cartoons show how persistent national stereotypes are.
national television
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The President went on national television to appeal for calm.
national/international consensus
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There was no international consensus on how to deal with the situation.
national/international headlines
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The story made national headlines.
national/international/worldwide recognition
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Like many pianists, he first achieved international recognition by winning a competition.
national/local expenditure (= money spent by national or local government )
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There have been cuts in local expenditure on education.
national/state boundaries (= boundaries between countries or states )
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Big companies usually aim to expand outside national boundaries.
national/state lottery
national/state security (= security of a country )
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Did the article contain any information that is damaging to national security?
national/state/county park
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the Lake District National Park
of world/international/national stature
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Armstrong was a musician of world stature.
on a national scale (= involving the whole country )
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The survey was carried out on a national scale.
state/national/federal etc legislature
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the state legislature of Virginia
the local/national currency (= the type of money that a particular country uses )
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The local currency of Zambia is the 'kwacha'.
the local/national/domestic economy (= in one particular country or area )
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The new factory has given a massive boost to the local economy.
the national average
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The murder rate in the city has risen to four times the national average .
the national championship
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the Canadian National Championship
the National Curriculum (= the curriculum set by the government for schools in England and Wales )
the national debt (= the total amount that is owed by the government of a country )
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Their national debt is the third largest in the world.
the national gallery (= owned by the country )
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Edinburgh has three national galleries.
the national income (= the income of a country )
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A large proportion of the national income comes from food exports.
the national press
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There was very little about the incident in the national press.
the national scene
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The magazine gives an overview of the national music scene.
the national team
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He coached the Italian national team.
the national trend
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Crime rates in Manchester bucked the national trend.
the national/federal/state budget
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He has a plan to balance the federal budget.
the national/local media
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The case received enormous publicity in the national media.
the public/national mood (= the mood of the people in a country )
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The public mood was one of anger and frustration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
anthem
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One of its first actions was to endorse Putin's idea of restoring the Soviet national anthem written for Joseph Stalin.
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Jeffrey Osborne will come back to sing the national anthem .
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More and more countries compete, as nations fragment: the bands at Atlanta need the music for 197 national anthems .
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And the national anthem will be played by...
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She too held her head high as they announced the fight and played the national anthems .
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Some memorable moments also have come during the singing of the national anthem .
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When people sing our national anthem , they raise their fists and then the battle-cry is echoed: Amandla Ngawethu!
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It addresses everything from how players should stand during the national anthem to how long their hair is.
average
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However, with a higher age structure, compared with the national average , demand continues to outstrip supply.
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The national average was $ 18, 778.
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Car ownership rates are higher in rural areas than the national average .
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In the same period, the national average dropped from 19 percent to 18 percent.
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In that way, people can see how effective the organisation is against other providers or against a regional or national average .
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It's more than ten percent down on the national average .
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By 1981, unemployment for those living in the cities was 50 percent higher than the national average .
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It used to have less unemployment than the regional or national average .
boundary
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There were many other large new deals, mergers and alliances both within nations and across national boundaries .
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International marketing is an expensive proposition, since tastes differ across national boundaries .
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Economic transnational practices Economic transnational practices are economic practices that transcend national boundaries .
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Teams form over national boundaries and across multiple time zones.
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Variations of definitions and standard coding schemes across national boundaries or through time are a particular problem.
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For thousands of years their people knew no national boundaries .
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Basically it emphasised not the state, but class solidarity across frontiers and dismissed national boundaries as comparatively unimportant.
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United Kingdom will show leadership in financing the consolidation of industries across national boundaries .
championship
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He won the national championship in one season and finished fairly high in another season.
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Last year, Florida rode Mike Miller's miracle against Butler to a berth in the national championship game.
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Another way of getting yourself noticed is in the national championships organised by your governing body.
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Sixty-two points in the national championship game, Jack.
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However, he shows great commitment to the crew's development from novices to contenders for the national championships .
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For winning back-to-back national championships , the Huskers were rather matter-of-fact about it all Tuesday night.
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I was in a kind of athletic limbo, in between national championship class and true international standard.
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Our goals include winning the national championship , and the Big Ten and beating Michigan.
conference
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At a national conference I met a woman convenor of a local group of refuse collectors; she had ten children.
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The soldiers had demanded the resumption of the national conference .
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The question of whether a national conference should be held was reportedly also under discussion.
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The change of policy was decided at a national conference in Cologne.
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Wolff announced his move at the national conference of Age Concern on Monday.
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The first national conference of the Cooperative Party set the agenda.
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The first national conference for lesbians and gays with disabilities is currently being organized to take place early in 1988.
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The government, however, refused to countenance demands for a sovereign national conference .
curriculum
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The advent of a national curriculum in this country may change this situation.
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Boggle Junior will complement the national curriculum .
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Why have we decided to relate the responsibility and the duty to the national curriculum ?
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What could I tell the parents about the national curriculum ?
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Although teachers flinch at such international comparisons, most of them are surprisingly enthusiastic about the national curriculum .
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Moreover, continental experience of a national curriculum suggests that once it is in place, achieving change is extremely difficult.
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Most of the time the new national curriculum will itself prevent controversy arising.
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Tests, boycotts, national curriculum , funding.
debt
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The other reality-national debt too low and government spending departments chronically unable to raise investment-will be forgotten.
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On that same day, the Treasury Department will run out of money to pay off the national debt .
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They could buy out national debts , hold governments to ransom, close down whole economies if they wanted to.
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Third, it would seriously increase the risk of default on our national debt .
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The recession has deepened, the huge national debt has increased, the people's lot worsened.
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The result was the ballooning national debt .
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The implications for one major question of dynamic incidence - the burden of the national debt - are developed in Section 8-5.
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Joseph Harker To whom do we owe the national debt ?
economy
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The growth of rural manufacturing and commercial dealings served to reinforce the integration of both into a single national economy .
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On the downside, all say the slowing national economy will hinder Texas growth.
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The world economic system is as blind, irrational and without subject as was the former system of national economy .
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But now, with the national economy leaner and personal budgets tighter, an energized public is demanding more accountability.
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Moreover, throughout all these swings, London has retained a peculiar importance within the national economy as a whole.
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Dayton embodies all of the contradictory elements of a national economy in transition.
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With the current trend of services contribution and manufacturing to the national economy , services outweigh manufacturing by far.
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A larger problem is that the flat tax would work havoc in the national economy , and nobody knows what to expect.
election
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Participation is measured using voter turnout, or the percentage of the eligible voters who actually voted in national elections .
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In national elections each candidate usually had the backing of one or more of the leading papers.
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The arrangement sprang out of Compaq winning a contract to supply hardware, which was used to manage the 1991 national elections .
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The essential characteristics of national elections in the United States and Britain are contrasted in Table 5.1.
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S.-brokered peace agreement in Bosnia as 2. 9 million people prepare to vote in national elections scheduled Saturday.
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Two recent polls showed he would draw more than 20 percent of the vote in a national election .
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Even for the last remaining superpower, domestic issues, not foreign matters, dominate national elections .
government
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Although Mrs Thatcher insists that accountability should exclusively be through national governments to national parliaments, this is not favoured by others.
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With internationalization, national governments lose many of their traditional levers of economic control.
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Walid Jumblatt represents their political demands and their claim to a seat in the national government .
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Representative David Bard of Pennsylvania proposed that the national government levy a tax on each slave imported.
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Clearly, controlling such organisations is beyond the regulatory capacity of national governments .
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The national government under the Articles had neither the authority nor the force to suppress domestic disturbances.
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Indeed, the years since 1979 have witnessed a continuing struggle between local and national government .
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They expected the national government to provide them with some protection against intimidation and violence, but no assistance was forthcoming.
health
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Some people are very committed to the belief that weight loss is a national health problem.
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The position, as the Government have repeatedly made clear, is that trusts will remain part of the national health service.
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Yet his policies on everything from national health care to defense have lacked the details that voters usually demand.
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Yarborough advocated national health care and workplace safety and preserving nature for everybody to enjoy.
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On two days out of three in 1988 the air exceeded national health standards.
hero
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He was a national hero and now he had the leverage to change golf.
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His exploits on the Colorado River had made him a national hero , the most celebrated adventurer since Lewis and Clark.
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This boy is a celebrity here, a national hero .
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Brave, adventurous, single-minded, he died a national hero .
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Charismatic, charming, he'd become a national hero .
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At Silverstone, Hunt was the national hero .
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Punjabis are now with the police, and Mr Gill is a national hero .
identity
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Previously, our research has been conducted in contexts where there was usually a willingness to claim a national identity .
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Try problems involving differences in gender, race, religion, political persuasion, national identity , or the like...
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At the same time it also indicates a polarisation of national identities .
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For it is a conflict that goes to the core of our national identity .
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Orthodoxy and national identity were inextricably intertwined, and religious leaders became the spokesmen of national revolt.
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For Christians it defined a national identity from which they were excluded.
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It's just like the old national identity card argument.
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They have largely vindicated his belief in the tenacity of national identities and the superficiality of ideological systems.
income
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Thus, the higher the Gini coefficient, the more unequal is the distribution of national income .
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That means that the ratio of our debt to our national income is coming down.
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Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled, urban population tripled and national income more than tripled.
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Hence an adjustment should be based on labor income only, not on national income per worker.
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There are two other possible uses of the national income figures that we should mention.
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Column 3 shows in both absolute and relative terms the portion of the national income originating in the various industries.
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The third-round effect of the increase in government expenditure will be a further increase of £16 million in national income .
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In the remainder of the book, we follow convention and use the term national income .
insurance
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It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge.
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Can the right hon. Gentleman explain how the costs of extending national insurance or raising taxation will help employment?
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It is the national insurance contributions that have become the second largest element, with 17 percent of the total.
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It is the Labour party which wants to increase tax by extending national insurance .
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Many women have now moved voluntarily to paying the full national insurance contribution.
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We now know that the Opposition's approach to national insurance would mean a something-for-nothing society.
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Such an approach ensures that those who are poor gain the full national insurance benefit increases.
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The sum remaining from his fees will be subject to further deductions for income tax, national insurance and national insurance self-employed tax.
interest
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The national interest lies in all the nation's resources being put to the most advantageous use possible.
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Other stations demanded that we cancel the show in the national interest .
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Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire.
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Your game is disappearing from the radar screen of national interest at an alarming rate.
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Mediating the differences between these groups and guiding them towards mutually agreed goals is the overriding notion of the national interest .
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An official fails when he or she identifies the national interest too closely with the interests of his or her own constituency.
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By the end of 1990, taking account of all national interests , thirty three companies are now involved in Eureka 90.
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Internal problems Inevitably achieving general agreement on market completion involved a delicate balancing of national interests .
level
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Although no longer a barren exchange, they do not represent outline agreements to be followed at the national level .
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But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities.
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Altogether the reshuffle involved 12 officials at regional and national level .
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Although no talks were scheduled locally over the weekend, negotiations continued on a national level in Detroit.
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At the national level the concern is with the education system as a whole rather than with individual schools.
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Nevertheless, on the national level 1980 turned out to be a politically devastating year.
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However, there are problems in using it at national level .
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Historically, party-switching at the national level has been relatively rare.
lottery
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I agree with my hon. Friend about the usefulness of a national lottery .
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To supply these funds he reestablished the national lottery which afforded the government about one hundred thousand duros a year.
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Key elements of the new department will be the introduction of a national lottery and of a Millennium Fund.
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The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery .
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A new national lottery to aid sport, the arts and the national heritage.
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He will take over responsibility for broadcasting from the Home Office in addition to administering the new national lottery .
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One of his tasks will be to bring in the national lottery .
media
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Andy would like to see canoeing increasing a lot but it needs marketing outside the trade through the national media .
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Its conspicuous lack of charm took two major hits in the national media in the last month alone.
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Guidelines for making women visible in the national media will be developed and distributed to provincial offices and media organisations.
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The basic principle of diversity of media ownership and freedom of entry should serve as an essential guideline for national media policy.
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Particularly interesting will be how rivalries are both conceived of by fans themselves, and represented in local and national media .
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The national media made her a heroine, status richly deserved, and the sympathy grew even more.
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Many incidents go unreported in the national media .
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The couple has been mindful of the national media attention.
network
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A national network for those wanting to join the Men's Movement is another of his projects.
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One of the shortcomings of cellular infrastructure has been the lack of a seamless national network .
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It was to be broadcast over the national network every Saturday.
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In 1940, Lewis could give a speech and all three national networks would carry it live.
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Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks .
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A national network television audience can judge for itself when the Suns visit the Lakers and attempt to break a two-game skid.
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There are more than 65 local Protestant radio stations, many of which are linked through national networks .
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Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
news
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Suddenly the Elsie McAndrew affair was in the national news headlines.
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The fire se ted this flood from the dozen-or-so others that make national news every year.
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The national news agency and the major publishing houses struck.
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The national news magazines have never granted her a cover story or a frill appreciation.
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Brian Flannery spoke on the national news reports from the festival site.
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Petrolia had been on the national news .
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Much important political or national news is likely to be announced over the radio.
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A man saying the same makes national news .
newspaper
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Wednesday Morning Norman Fowler, the chairman of the Party, was awakened early by the delivery of the national newspapers .
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A national newspaper claimed yesterday that the scheme had been abandoned due to a lack of government backing.
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Shortly before the debate, a sensational attack on lesbian and gay Christians was published by a national newspaper .
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Contemporary national newspapers display a number of different positions at all three levels.
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Read in studio A former maid of the Princess Royal has won the right to sue a national newspaper .
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Or as city editor of a national newspaper ?
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One was reported in a national newspaper and one in a local newspaper.
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The cost of 1,000 sample poll is around £50,000 which is eventually paid by readers of national newspapers .
park
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Furthermore, these changes have spread to not only the more isolated areas but also to the protected landscapes of national parks .
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Part of gate from the national parks ?
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Many poor countries neglect their national parks .
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Others volunteer in national parks in return for free camping.
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Gemsbok national park is also rich in wildlife and is very popular with visitors.
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The vast expanse of Exmoor national park starts at Combe Martin.
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There is no relaxation of planning controls in national parks , areas of outstanding natural beauty and existing conservation areas.
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Unlike national parks in some other countries, these are not supposed to be wilderness or isolated areas.
policy
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Its national policy has opened the door to the West: and that means Western food.
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Scapegoating has become national policy in the United States.
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Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information.
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Certainly national policy should upgrade and open education for the new economic times.
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But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention.
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And their influence on national policy has been pronounced.
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Recommendations on appointing representatives from Aboriginal communities to various local and national policy boards have been implemented.
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This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail.
politics
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For its part, Golkar met criticism of its ineffectual performance in national politics by adopting a more assertive image.
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One of the strongest factors to be reckoned with in national politics was the press.
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Dorset gentry were irritated at Dorchester folk's disregard of their social superiors; national politics brought disaster.
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Occidental has long been active in local and national politics .
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Only five years ago, Mrs Shephard - the new Employment Secretary - was unknown to national politics .
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It involved both disease ideology and national politics .
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Devoting his energies to national politics , Adenauer had become President of the Parliamentary Council in 1948-9.
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For those afflicted with the notion that national politics is on the level and two-dimensional, the following yarn is logical.
press
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As Table 6.1 shows, the national press kept a remarkably steady share, in the region of 16 - 19 percent.
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It was the kind of scenario that, eventually, inevitably, would draw the national press like bees to honey.
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We decided that for the Capital Guarantee Bond we would advertise in the national press .
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But the national press has published nothing about the ambiguity surrounding the Milwaukee Project.
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The initiative as a whole was criticised both by clients and the national press .
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The national press can see him any time.
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Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press .
pride
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A purely national project, however, can give a country's astronomers more freedom of choice, and assuages national pride .
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Those whose job it is to attract investment say the issue of national pride is an old one.
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It's good to see such national pride .
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First discovery of things astronomical has become a matter of national pride .
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Still, there were moments when national pride asserted itself.
product
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Gross national product fell 5.8 percent in January-February 1991 compared with the same period in 1990.
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So, more marginally, has the competitive prestige that goes with expanding national product .
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Spending on health has risen from 4.7 percent of the gross national product in 1979 to 5.7.
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Net national product exceeds national income by the amount of indirect business taxes-sales and excise taxes, primarily.
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Removal of technical barriers Technical barriers to trade arise from differing national product regulations and standards.
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Gross and net national product for the United Kingdom, 1987.
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Britain's gross national product weighs in at around £250 billion; that is, P£6250.
radio
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Paul had given public undertakings on national radio and television that it would.
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Mather its advertising agency in charge of buying commercial spots on national radio networks.
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Following the announcement of the revised schedule the premises of the national radio station were briefly occupied by a group of soldiers.
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Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands.
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Thousands turn up for parties every weekend and tune in to the national radio show he does with Djaimin.
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By writing for a national radio network, I would enjoy the best of both worlds.
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Only national radio and television stations controlled by the military were broadcasting news.
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This meant the end, in 1972, of the old system of regional variations on the national radio network.
security
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Condoleezza Rice, as national security adviser, can supply both.
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Deputy national security adviser Sandy Berger and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes also are candidates.
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An amnesty was also granted to a number of unidentified people being held for breach of national security .
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Not only is it an urgent national security issue, it must be treated as such.
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He gave his evidence in Tehran's revolutionary court, which deals with matters that threaten national security .
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In a radio address to the nation a few days later, Rooseveltjustified lend-lease as essential to national security .
service
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Jehovah's Witnesses' religious beliefs precludes them from undertaking compulsory national service .
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Its pages brimmed with the idealism, patriotism, and commitment to national service that Groton instilled in its young charges.
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He, in turn, said it was not; he merely regarded national service as a waste of time.
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The defence that ministers offered for excluding national services was always hollow.
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Other young men followed, some after national service in the Soviet army, or university training.
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By contrast defence expenditure was cut, chiefly by reducing national service from 14 months to 12.
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Other race groups are not required to do national service .
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Maybe he'd joined a ship, he'd done his national service in the navy.
survey
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The Chief Executive also makes arrangement for an independent annual national survey of client satisfaction.
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A 1995 national survey of more than 1, 000 restaurant and fast-food workers reflected the findings of Lewicki and his colleagues.
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Unfortunately, these national surveys do not usually collect this type of information.
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A recent national survey by the Families and Work Institute provides still more insight into employees' priorities.
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However, the first national survey of Labour party members, conducted in 1989/90, suggested otherwise.
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According to a national survey of 50 salons, requests for red hair outnumber those for blond for the first time.
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Each of the four countries is to submit a report based on national surveys in March 1992.
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The latest national survey for the Pew Research Center found a majority of those questioned tend to disbelieve Clinton.
team
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Chapman's revolutionary ideas extended also to the running of the national team .
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Several more emerging players joined the national team as the year progressed.
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Yet the status accorded to the national team is grudging.
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It was the first time that the national team had ever trained in a black area.
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Only once since 1988 has the national team gone so long between matches.
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Confidence is one of the key qualities you acquire from being on a national team .
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That 10-year agreement is worth about $ 105m, and covers all the country's national teams , including junior and women.
television
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Following a national television appeal, callers have phoned the police with details of connections in London and Cardiff.
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But Mr Walesa had the perfect comeback: Taking to national television , he proudly waved his 1963 diploma.
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Three major national television documentaries, including one on the work of the local Drugs Squad, brought Wirral to national attention.
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She is on national television commercials.
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In a schedule that should be released next week, the Eagles will have at least four national television appearances next season.
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And when the Raiders whip you on national television , no one forgets.
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By himself, Woods can create dramatic ratings shifts on national television by playing in a tournament, any tournament.
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Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
unity
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For all his weaknesses and crimes, Mobutu's sense of national unity never failed him.
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In a pluralistic country of 13, 000 islands, good transport is considered essential to national unity .
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The implicit justification in terms of national unity is also a rationalization in this sense.
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Mr Clark and Mr Chrétien may indeed contrive to rebuild national unity on a new set of compromises.
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It is not so much a Labour government as a government of national unity .
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The constitutional rights of the people which exist on paper were withheld for the sake of national unity .
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An image of national unity should be portrayed even if this was not a true reflection of reality.
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I believe in a unity candidate who will form a government of national unity.
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Bureaucracy, long absent from the country, was making a rapid return, both at central and at local levels .
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Even the left-wing parties that may yet form the government have a record of economic reform at state level .
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First, of course, there really does need to be a range of choices available at local level .
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He believes everyone has ideas worthy of attention and that earth-saving decisions are best made at local level .
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In keeping with the rank-and-file strength of the movement, however, pressure was applied most effectively at local level .
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It has also highlighted the differential at local level .
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The decision has generated sheafs of proposed new abortion legislation, pro and anti, at state level .
be in the national/public interest
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An improper and dominant motive would have to be shown for revealing matters which would normally be in the public interest .
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As such, redevelopment may be in the public interest even if it conflicts with local policy.
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Matters are somewhat different when we come to dispositions where the modus is in the public interest .
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The 1916 Senate hearings produced no debate on the question of whether concern about leprosy was in the national interest .
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The insistence that emancipation was in the national interest expressed this.
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The judge rejected the argument that publication of the information in an article would be in the public interest .
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The period can be extended if continued secrecy is deemed to be in the public interest .
the National Curriculum
the National Grid
the National Guard
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national forests
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a national policy for energy
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Alitalia is the national airline of Italy.
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our national defense
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Poles embrace Chopin as a national hero.
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Sabena, Belgium's national airline
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the National Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford
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The national news comes on at 18:30.
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The unemployment rate here is much higher than the national average.
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Winners of the regional competitions compete in the national finals.
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Woodson appeared on national television.
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Yosemite National Park
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Already, they have contributed to great national mood swings.
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Clinton has called for a national conversation on race.
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Even if most figures for waste are not overestimates, national statistics tell a less-than-apocalyptic tale.
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In several countries, technical assistance salaries now exceed national public service pay-rolls.
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The increase in male cancer rates in South-West Cumbria are in line with the national trends over the same period. 4.
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The prison system is big business which is becoming integrated into the national and local economies.
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The use of a national access network to deliver materials and services to classroom teachers and library media specialists. 2.
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There will, for the first time, be a national standard against which a pupil's performance may be measured.
II. noun
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foreign
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It is irrelevant that the partners are foreign nationals and resident at the time of service outside the jurisdiction.
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For many years now, more than half the engineering doctorates awarded in the United States have gone to foreign nationals .
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If you go over that line and are a foreign national , you get arrested.
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George told Pat of a number of foreign nationals who are imprisoned at present for being found witnessing as Christians.
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About 4000 French nationals live in Zaire.
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During the war, foreign nationals were forced to leave the country.
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There are many Russian nationals living in Frankfurt.
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A residence requirement applying without discrimination to nationals and nationals of other member states was held in Robert Fearon & Co.
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But the nationals quickly expanded: they overtook the provincials in 1923 and by 1945 sold almost twice as many copies.
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But they can still be loan-tied, which means the nationals will still effectively control these outlets.
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The nationals control the bulk of production.
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There should be pre-qualifying tournaments around the country before they come to the nationals.