I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a club official (= someone with a position of authority in the club )
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At this meeting we will elect new club officials.
a department official (= in a government department )
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a senior justice department official
a formal/official complaint
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The man has lodged a formal complaint against the police.
a formal/official invitation
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The president received a formal invitation to visit Nigeria.
a government official (= someone who works for a government in an official position )
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He had a meeting with French scientists and government officials.
a party official
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The incident has angered senior party officials.
a prison officer/official/warder/guard
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Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.
a senior official (= in an organization )
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a meeting of senior government officials
a state/official secret (= a government secret )
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He was accused of passing on state secrets to a foreign power.
an official announcement
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No official announcement is expected until next year.
an official apology
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The company has made an official apology and is offering compensation.
an official denial
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The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
an official engagement
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This is the Prime Minister's first official engagement since the elections.
an official estimate (= accepted by people in authority )
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According to official army estimates, more than 500 rebels had been killed.
an official inquiry
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The outcome of the official inquiry will be eagerly awaited.
an official inspection
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Preparations were made in advance of the official inspection.
an official language (= the language used for official business in a country )
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Canada has two official languages: English and French.
an official letter
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I received an official letter thanking me for my enquiry.
an official position
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He has no official position in the government.
an official position (= one that a government or organization says officially that it has )
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This was the French government’s official position.
an official reception
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After an official reception at the Embassy, they visited the White House.
an official statement
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The company is expected to make an official statement tomorrow.
an official website
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The International Olympic Committee’s official website has a lot of interesting information.
an official/administrative receiver
an official/formal report
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Black graduates still face discrimination from employers, according to an official report.
an official/state visit
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The president made an official visit to France this week.
formal/official approval
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Finance ministers gave their formal approval in July.
government/official propaganda
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Everything would soon get better, according to the official propaganda.
official confirmation
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There has still been no official confirmation of the report.
official duties
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The new President will take up his official duties next month.
official figures
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According to official figures, two million houses in England are inadequately heated.
official mascot
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the official mascot of the 2002 World Cup
official permission
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Mr Murphy was granted official permission to travel to North Korea.
official receiver
official records
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This has been the wettest winter since official records began.
official residence
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the ambassador’s official residence
official statistics
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Official statistics indicate that educational standards are improving.
official/written/formal notification
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We received official notification that Harry was missing.
the official line (= the opinion that a government states officially )
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Journalists are often too willing to accept the official line .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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After an inspection, federal officials ordered additional security measures, including moving Guzman to a higher-security area.
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That said, there is an issue that should be explored by state and federal officials .
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For years, federal law enforcement officials were reluctant to penetrate the movement.
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The implicit message to the comptroller and to any other federal official is that this person is important to the president.
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But high land costs prompted federal officials to buy the Army another corral site and to build on F Street.
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The act provided that federal courts and officials could invoke army aid for its enforcement.
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Earlier this year, President Clinton ordered the issuance of safety locks to all federal law enforcement officials who carry handguns.
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From their perspective, the discretion used by federal officials produced reluctant justice at best.
high
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A high official would be likely to have one of jade, nephrite for the body and jadeite for the stopper.
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After four days of fasting, High Commission officials in Delhi relented and gave the go-ahead for the couple to be reunited.
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He supervised the pickers like a high official , carrying a long, medieval-looking pole with a sickle on the end.
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A wife of a high official ?
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Their primary concern is with Washington, where the promotion board and higher officials are.
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At the bottom end of the scale this category could include high salaried officials .
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They were fed up, one high official was reported to have said.
local
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It allows a direct approach by the plaintiff or his agent to the competent local official in that state.
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Alameda County Supervisor Mary King hastily organized a briefing for local officials next week.
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But local union officials want to shut down all the existing committees and begin again from scratch.
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Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
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In the Phoenix case, and from the perspective of local officials , the federal program contains conflicting objectives.
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During the past week, members of Congress and local officials from across the country have urged Clinton to intervene.
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And, recently, the county has turned to what local officials call its third phase of development: corporate office parks.
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Yet the general staff of overseers is small, only about 40 employees, supplemented by local officials in 94 judicial districts.
military
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Until recently, lower military officials had taken the blame for the estimated 3,000 people who were murdered or went missing.
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The barracks will be the best enlisted housing in the military , Marine officials said.
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Other revelations serve as cautionary tales about the importance of subordinating military officials to civilian authority.
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Hartzog acknowledged that some military officials question his vision.
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But military officials denied any such changes are being contemplated.
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Some military officials have asserted that the effects of exposure to chemical agents would have been evident among those troops almost immediately.
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Senior military officials , including Gen.
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A number of lawmakers, independent experts, and former military officials have also expressed this view, including Indiana Sen.
public
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Mrs Chan, Hong Kong's most popular public official , consistently proved a staunch defender of its autonomy.
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The Public Health Service, your local public health officials and your family physician will be able to help you.
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The ethical basis for extending effective property rights in the public treasury to officials is overlooked in the Niskanen-type thesis.
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He holds more press conferences than any major public official in the country-at least two, and usually three, a week.
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Sir John had then stamped off, muttering curses about public officials who didn't seem to care.
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Only gradually did control of education pass largely to public officials .
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It was enough to have the declaration endorsed by a public official .
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The dilemma for local public officials is that once the game of economic development begins, it is difficult to avoid playing.
senior
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In fact, they were senior officials , few in number and recruited through complex competitive examinations.
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A senior county council official said later on Tuesday he was not optimistic that the decision would be reversed.
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For months, senior officials denied that Washington had any successor in mind.
top
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In law enforcement agencies particularly, top officials have cleaned out their files and left nothing for an incoming administration.
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A top prison official ordered the contract approved without competitive bids and went to work for VitaPro several months later.
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They are also paying top officials 10% over the normal pay scales.
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Food-throwing by a top administration official in the Roosevelt Room is not a big deal?
white
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His first lady, a power behind the scenes, insisted that a White House official be fired.
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Two White House officials were convicted of serious charges and a third got off on a technicality.
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Among the options now under consideration, White House officials said, were a restoration of those earlier restrictions.
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Many white officials tend to be terse on the subject.
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His job is safe if he wants to stay, White House officials said.
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Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.
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administration
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But administration officials and other sources now concede that Alispahic remains an influential figure with close ties to Izetbegovic.
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Therefore, a cap under current circumstances would not hurt outlays for the poor, according to administration officials .
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The contradictions in the Clinton policy were trenchantly described in a recent article by Robert Kagan, a former Reagan administration official .
city
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However, city officials make it clear that it will remain the only children's home in Ceuta.
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Center and city officials play down the troubles, saying they are typical of any start-up operation.
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That, city officials and property owners say, is happening now.
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He will be accompanied by city officials , including the airport and port directors, business leaders and staff.
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The bottom line for city officials: Be kind to your current employers.
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Her granddaughter says the old woman was afraid to answer the door, terrified that once again city officials would come knocking.
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Some ministers and city officials are outraged, saying the newspaper has crossed the line from satire to tastelessness.
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Mayor Richard Riordan and other city officials were on hand for the groundbreaking.
county
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The new bills will save an average household £50 a year, but today's decision has shocked county officials .
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She said she is more concerned by the trouble county officials have had in negotiations with federal agencies.
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If county officials confirm that 28, 084 are those of registered voters, a referendum will be held around May 1.
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Two years ago, Gallatin County officials tried to fashion a set of brakes.
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In choosing Allied, county officials said the company offered more money up front at closing than the other bidders.
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It was asked to provide the most inclusive list and leave it to the county officials to double-check the names.
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City and county officials said Thursday that they were not concerned about the foreclosure and the deal probably would go through.
court
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These reforms were partially aimed at reducing the influence of court officials and other persons who served as unofficial lawyers.
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The seventh of nine children, Wiedman told court officials he, too, was molested as a child.
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They include parchment and paper rolls prepared by receivers, manorial court officials and other functionaries.
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His wife rang court officials to say he was ill with food poisoning.
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Certainly the various court officials who came and went didn't seem interested.
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Neither were judicial and court officials free from the taint of corruption.
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In other words, the police, magistrates, judges, and other court officials have too much discretion.
department
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State Department officials say the presence of Fusaria is not surprising.
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Health and Environmental Control Department officials notified about 500 residents of the inspections at a meeting Tuesday.
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In Washington, a State Department official speaking on background was far more frank.
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The planning department officials assigned to work on the project gave up their summer vacations to bring it in on time.
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Senior State Department officials say reduced funding also directly affects policy.
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The immediate responses to complaints made by Justice Department officials in the new administration seemed cold-blooded and callous.
enforcement
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Law enforcement officials said Wednesday that an inspection of the brakes turned up no defects.
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A federal law enforcement official said prosecutions seldom are initiated unless the eavesdropper deliberately has used a monitored conversation for other purposes.
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For years, federal law enforcement officials were reluctant to penetrate the movement.
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Some of the chiefs also urged improved information sharing between schools and law enforcement officials .
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Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
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It was the first such public statement by any high-ranking law-\#enforcement official directly involved in the Ray case.
government
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The move follows criticism by leading local government officials and academics.
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They were welcomed by schoolchildren bearing flowers, by government officials , wolf people, reporters and ordinary citizens cheering their appearance.
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Despite assurances from government officials that an investigation is in progress, his whereabouts remain unknown.
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The surviving stations either are owned by prominent government officials or have close links to the government.
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Sources in Xiamen said 159 government officials , including top bankers, are being held in the Jinyan Hotel for interrogation.
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Both trips included government officials , as well as business executives seeking contracts abroad.
health
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But health officials in the Darlington and the Northallerton health authorities said their budgets had allowed for the pay rises.
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As a result of the study, health officials are calling on manufacturers and the government to curtail exposures to children.
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Read in studio Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic.
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The incubation period of Hepatitis A is generally a month but can range from 15 to 50 days, health officials said.
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Now health officials are working out how to cut the waste of the daily medical marathon.
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New York City health officials were able analyze very recent data because the city collects birth and death records for its residents.
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Department of Health officials have agreed to meet the conciliation service, Acas.
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That system has deteriorated so much that state health officials have stepped in to demand that the city act immediately.
house
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White House officials denied the president was worried that his foreign policy initiatives might turn sour before Nov. 5.
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Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.
ministry
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Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route.
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Mr Raduyev announced, according to an Interior Ministry official in Moscow.
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If found guilty, the offending brokerages could be shuttered and officials imprisoned, ministry officials said.
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A quick visit by Ministry officials soon confirmed his fears.
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Most ministry officials are confident that their bureaucracy will survive in its current form.
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That opinion was based on an interview Viza had with a foreign ministry official .
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He summoned Interior Ministry officials to the royal palace on Jan. 25 to demand a full investigation into the affair.
party
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The Democratic Party officials and machinery mobilized against him after his surprise primary victory and he lost overwhelmingly in the general election.
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Municipal mayors, heads of nonprofit social service agencies, government bureaucrats, contractors and political party officials have all faced charges.
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Like these two, many of the participants in the Red Cross exchanges actually were intelligence or party officials .
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The revised law laid down strict rules on the issuing of permits for demonstrations and forbade government and party officials from participating.
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But party officials said only Sen.
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Nor were plebeian members mere foot-soldiers at the disposal of intelligenty party officials .
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Welfare Party officials say they hope to join forces with the conservative Motherland Party.
school
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Most school officials came to regard me, and indirectly the hospital, rather positively.
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Whether other teachers or school officials will be considered public officials varies from state to state.
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Math scores were even lower. School officials hope to put the stricter promotion standards into place this academic year.
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The Supreme Court, in its most recent decision, barred school officials from arranging prayers at graduation ceremonies.
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New York school officials said the cost of complying with the decision in one year alone was $ 6 million.
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Thus school officials are protected for good-faith actions taken to fulfill their official duties.
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Another mere coincidence, say school officials , adding that Tarkanian was adamant about having such a watchdog on staff.
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For the order to be reasonable, school officials must have the legal authority to issue it.
state
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The activity of state officials constitutes what the elite has chosen as its solution.
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Some 40 people have since been arrested in connection with the case, and they include police and lower-level state officials .
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The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval.
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It is state officials who are responsible for finding victims and easing their pain with financial help.
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In a ceremony today, state officials will proclaim Nevada 375 the Extraterrestrial Highway.
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They currently can seek help from the secretary of the Interior when state officials balk.
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Army and state officials decided that it would be safe to build homes nearby, and gave the developer the go-ahead.
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accord
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Both sites can hold up to 10, 000 demonstrators, according to city officials .
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Caltrain carries more bicyclists than any other commuter rail system in the United States, according to Caltrain officials .
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King gave away at least $ 15, 000 in tickets, according to one Valley official with amateur boxing.
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Instead, Merrill has played a major role in urging more and stronger attack ads, according to campaign officials .
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The sticking points, according to the official , concern existing references to Zionism and the issue of reparation for slavery.
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How the money will be divided among cities and states has not been determined, according to an administration official .
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Although the museum has been helpful in soliciting donations, according to center officials , it has been a constant money loser.
elect
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An estimated 1,400,000 people were eligible to vote to elect officials who in the past had been appointed by the President.
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One more small step away from control by elected officials and toward a government run by the bureaucracy.
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Thanks to bitter memories of dictatorship, the constitution forbids a second consecutive term for any elected official .
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In a government with term limits for elected officials , the power of the staffs that stay on will only expand.
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But the question lingers: Just what visions do our current and former elected officials hold for this state and its people?
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The three-hour meeting was attended by 120 representatives of railroads, unions, shippers and elected officials .
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They are elected or appointed officials who strive to meet the needs of their constituents through effective and efficient government.
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I would love to see the building in adaptive reuse, both personally and as an elected official .
meet
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Now fed-up councillors are planning to meet officials from the Re-Roof Housing Association.
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It will be discussed publicly at a meeting Tuesday, officials said.
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At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official , Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.
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J., said after meeting with Air Force officials Thursday.
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Prueher reported that Cohen made his views known in a meeting with Pentagon officials last week.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a union official
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But instead of levying fines, prosecuting plant officials or revoking their licenses, the agency only wrote threatening letters to trustees.
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By last week, government and state officials had doubled their estimates of contaminated sites to about 100.
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City officials were hoping the name change would help curb the prostitution which festered in the area during the 1970s.
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Committee members have expressed concerns about possible contacts between donors and officials of the National Security Council.
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Health officials in Houston said Thursday that California strawberries are almost certainly the source of the illnesses.
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In any case, the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official .
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One of the strengths of organisations is the expertise that officials have accumulated over time.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approval
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There is, however, plenty of evidence to suggest that Manet and many other artists craved official approval .
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As many additional columns should be provided as may be demanded in accordance with the number of official approvals required.
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Broadly speaking, it's best to ask your local authority about whether any official approval is needed before going ahead.
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The mainland media were warned not to report the case without official approval .
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The group reckons that official approval will follow around two years later.
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Rewards may be given in terms of pay, promotion, status, official approval etc.
capacity
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Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity .
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Dole spent Wednesday in Washington acting in his official capacity as Senate majority leader.
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In our official capacities that is all that we need do.
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No one who was not in some official capacity was to approach within fifty yards.
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We allow officials acting in their official capacity no such area at all.
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He was staying on Sula Sgeir with the guga hunters to make observations in his official capacity .
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But since, technically, she'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less.
complaint
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Several major law firms have recently enacted codes of conduct to delineate appropriate behavior and to ward off official complaints .
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No wonder people sometimes start right off with an official complaint or even a writ.
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I never even had to file an official complaint .
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They've lodged an official complaint against the police, who they say were treating the case as suicide.
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She's made an official complaint - just one of a record number received by Thames Valley Police this year.
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The couple have lodged an official complaint against Gloucestershire police.
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Ian Arrol's parents say the police shouldn't have chased him and have lodge an official complaint .
corruption
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The latitude for administrative discretion in individual cases surely encouraged rather than checked official corruption .
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Integrity provides protection against partiality or deceit or other forms of official corruption , for example.
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This bitter complaint and reference to lavish party practices and official corruption was to grow louder over the year.
denial
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Bombay: An official denial of moves to end price controls on steel triggered nervous long liquidation across the board.
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Despite official denials , William Waldegrave, the health secretary, is unpopular in Downing Street.
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The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
document
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The official document was still laid out on the centre of the table alongside the first few lines of his handwritten duplicate.
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They were married in a room smelling of varnish and floor wax, and official documents growing musty in the filing cabinets.
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Arrests were also reported of members of a major network of financial corruption involving the falsification of official documents .
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Even the feel of an official document did not comfort.
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One covered the verification of official documents , one dealt with compensation for lost mail and one established mechanisms for future contacts.
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Clearly, too, the resistance and sabotage mentioned in official documents were the exception, not the rule.
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It was resolved to deposit the Damascus Declaration with the Arab League as an official document .
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He sat once again at his desk and began to consider how to get the official document translated without arousing further suspicion.
duty
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My first official duty was to help launch the Water 4 Life campaign.
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Most of his official duties had entailed preparations for the annual fish fry.
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Moreover, 87% think that the Royals should be protected from photographers when not on official duty .
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The privileges are supposed to cover mail sent as part of official duties .
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What characterises bureaucracy is the rational and systematic way in which official duties are defined and distributed.
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Thus school officials are protected for good-faith actions taken to fulfill their official duties .
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It was Potrovsky's first day of official duty .
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Most senators complain that their perpetual race for money distracts them from official duties .
engagement
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The royal couple are rarely seen together outside official engagements .
figures
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The discrepancy between the official figures and those produced by the Unemployment Unit varies, but is usually between 500,000 and 700,000.
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The economy may be growing, official figures for April suggest.
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Thirdly, even within a particular denomination, the official figures may not be strictly comparable over time.
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Latest official figures show that shoppers are even turning to credit again, to buy presents and stock up for Christmas.
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And between then and 1998, the last year for which official figures are available, the average was 462.
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According to official figures , the earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, left more than 20,000 homeless.
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Should such short-term unemployment be counted in the official figures ?
government
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The official government figures need to be treated with some caution.
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Result: a black market in official government receipts with special stamps.
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The study was based on satellite photographs and official government data from 1987.
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The Khmer Rouge has been at war with the official Government since 1979.
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Solana, a physicist, was from 1982-88 Minister of Culture, and from 1985 also official government spokesperson.
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There should be an official Government refugee resettlement programme.
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Maybe in the national interest new company incorporation certificates should carry an official government warning!
inquiry
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Under a Labour government, this committee would become an official inquiry into electoral reform.
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The clean-up will continue for many months while the outcome of the official inquiry will be eagerly awaited.
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The government has launched an official inquiry into his alleged ill-treatment but no findings have been made public.
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As protest spread to provincial towns on May 25, Bongo ordered an official inquiry into Rendjambe's death.
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But it would look a little odd if we were to start an official inquiry into his origins and background now.
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And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete.
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Robert Maxwell was once declared unfit to be in charge of a major public company by an official inquiry .
language
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Short-sighted Sinhalese politicians decided, after independence in 1948, to make Sinhalese the only official language .
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The Constitution stresses the primacy of Hindi which, written in Devanagari script, is the nation's official language .
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They must speak only in one of four official languages .
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It should be an easy task to produce a comparative table listing official language policies.
line
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Is this Dunfermline's official line ?
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The official line on all this often sounds remarkably complacent.
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Or proof of energies undimmed, as says the official line .
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The official line is that it remains Government policy never to comment on allegations of this nature.
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Journalists too easily accept the official line .
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He quickly established its critical reputation and the Institute became the focal point of specialist dissent from the official line .
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There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line .
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The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits.
opening
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Luncheon in the Court room for senior staff and guests followed the official opening ceremony.
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The official opening , on 15 May, 1903, was a splendid celebration of municipal enterprise.
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The official opening of the Akira Ikeda Gallery is scheduled for October.
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Ken will perform the official opening at noon on Wednesday, June 16.
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I wasn't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later.
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The official opening ceremony was performed by junior health minister Tom Sackville, during a visit to the hospital.
party
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There is no official party whipping.
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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.
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Was it to be an official Party document or a pamphlet in the name of Quintin Hogg?
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The New Democratic party won 13 seats, which allows them to retain their official party standing.
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He also won the 12 seats needed to be recognised as an official party .
policy
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The clinical and research developments which have led to changes in the official policy will now be described.
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In between these two is what has been often called the macro orientation with its focus upon formal structures and official policies .
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It explores the inter-relationships between official policy and professional practice and their adaptation to each other.
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And some intellectuals have criticized official policy without suffering repercussions.
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Opposition to official policy was not confined to parliamentarians, but extended even to members of the Imperial family.
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Some A.S.M. members have told me that current official policy is wrong.
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There hardly seemed room for the Party's official policy .
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All these points were approved for printing some months before they became official policy .
position
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However, this time the Central Committee intervened to remove Piatakov from his official position .
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She denies any suggestion that she used her official position for personal gain.
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Politically motivated intellectuals tended not to fall silent on receiving official positions but to capitalize on their prominence.
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It will be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position .
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They are formal, official positions within the church organization.
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Organized group politics would have been incompatible with the official position of the party.
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There must be no suspicion that you are making use of your official position to further your private interests.
rate
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The official rate of unemployment reached 20 percent at the end of 1985.
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In 1974 the official rate for the dollar was 17 dinars; by early 1988 it was over 1,300 dinars.
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The use of the official rate hugely understates exports and imports, and distorts year-on-year comparisons.
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The profit was the difference between the higher black market and lower official rate .
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Entrepreneurs immediately became staunch patriots, and agreed to pay wages only at the official rate .
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From that date, all foreign exchange receipts were to be surrendered to authorized banks at the official rates of exchange.
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Guidebooks advise travellers to bring their fully duty-free quota, to offset the official rate of exchange.
receiver
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A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy.
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The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm, which folded last year, owed.
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And the official receiver has warned that more job losses could follow if threatened strikes at other plants go ahead.
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The official receiver was duly ordered to exploit the film.
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The official receiver has been called into the firm, which ceased trading last June.
recognition
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Voters supported proposition 22 by 61 % to 39 %, bestowing official recognition only on marriages between men and women.
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The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
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Blake returned to London a hero in the eyes of MI6 but the secret nature of his work precluded any official recognition .
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But for the forgotten victims - the wives - there is little official recognition , let alone pressure for reform.
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A further twenty-three laborious years were to elapse before official recognition of his services to Britain was given.
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In this way, for the first time, the Association obtains official recognition .
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He gained only minimal official recognition for his work; death prevented his election to the Royal Society.
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This afforded Ted Church's involvement official recognition .
record
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However official records seem to be almost non-existent.
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He studied languages, studied political theory, knew diseases intimately, had official records of his skill as a pilot.
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They combined this with interviewing, some taking of life-histories, and the use of various official records and other documents.
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Given the sorry state of official records , the only hope is living memories or undiscovered data.
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A report by the Demos thinktank estimates that 624,000 have disappeared from official records .
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The official records include heralds' visitations, grants of arms, and pedigrees.
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Read in studio A manager at the government communications headquarters faces disciplinary action after official records were destroyed.
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Once the next meeting has approved them, they form the official record of what happened and what was decided.
report
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The official reports are also reticent.
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In his research for Hollywood Haven, Schnauber used both official reports from government offices and original documents.
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In 1986 an official report recorded that over a thousand monuments were in urgent need of restoration or protection from pollution.
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An inter-nationality conflict developed on 15-16 July which led, according to official reports , to 11 deaths and 127 hospital cases.
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The official report into the accident says it was caused by pilot error.
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The official report echoes eyewitness accounts of fire on board shortly after takeoff from the Upper Heyford base in Oxfordshire.
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An official report of 1837 on the work of the foreign ministry was uncompromising on this point.
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The official report of a government investigation into the fire was not even published in full until 1988.
residence
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He was to spend most of the next fourteen years in official residences .
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The administration had now returned to its official residence , and the business of government was under way.
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There he had an official residence , but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery, with another in London Fields.
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In addition to a salary, most governors received perquisites such as transportation and an official residence .
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There was no need for an official residence for the Foreign Secretary.
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No departing presidential couple in history have ever left the official residence so bowed down with booty.
source
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Our information from official sources is that there is no immediate crisis.
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I can get most of the facts from official sources .
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This arose partly from the ever present pressure from official sources to complete the survey of the country.
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However, official sources in Dublin have advised fans planning to make the trip to submit travel-document applications immediately.
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The documents he provided for Strype helped counterbalance the reliance upon official sources in Strype's histories of Elizabethan archbishops.
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At least sixteen people were killed, according to official sources , and a curfew had to be introduced.
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Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.
statement
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An official statement the companies were hammering out also at press time was unlikely to clarify that point.
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By contrast, the Justus Township standoff has been notable for the lack of any official statements .
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Does he intend to take action on that official statement ?
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Amtrak refused to confirm that date Wednesday, saying an official statement will be made today.
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Journalistic speculation and inference about official statements are not protected.
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Government documents and official statements concerning integration are replete with romantic and ill-defined language.
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The various official statements are unhelpful in practice.
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At least four official statements have been made by the United Kingdom.
statistics
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There are, he quoted from official statistics , 39 people chasing every job.
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So anything you can do to keep your home out of the official statistics really could be a matter of life or death.
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In yesterday's Independent, growing concern was reported about the integrity of official statistics .
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The use of official statistics , for example, has a long history in many of the social sciences.
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In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people.
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Yet it is instantly available, unlike official statistics that are always out of date.
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The research explores the determinants of strike activity using regression analyses of yearly time series data obtained from official statistics .
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The official statistics only include those accepted as homeless by local authority, and they are mainly households with children.
visit
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It was the end of his second, probably last, official visit .
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In fact it was surprising how good they were to us on most of our official visits .
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Yesterday he was on an official visit home.
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But her guard slipped briefly as she walked back to her limousine after an official visit in London.
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While his wife is on an official visit to Paris, he will spend his birthday at Highgrove, his Gloucestershire home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Islam is the official religion of Saudi Arabia.
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Most of the official records of the case were destroyed in a fire in 1965.
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Senator Blake is here on official business.
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The official explanation for the crash was pilot error.
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The official explanation for the man's death was suicide.
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the official opening of the new clinic
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The official procedure for obtaining a visa can turn into a bureaucratic nightmare.
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The First Lady will make an official visit to Haiti.
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The news is not yet official .
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The newspaper claims she spent over £50,000 on an official trip to Australia.
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Visa is an official sponsor of the Winter Olympics.
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What's the government's official policy on drugs education in schools?
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You have to get official permission for building in a conservation area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, as Air Force One took off for Washington, the response of his official hosts was somewhat colder.
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In addition to a salary, most governors received perquisites such as transportation and an official residence.
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Mr Baker adopted the Henry V model for his official morale-boosting speech from the conference platform.
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Nor have official bodies been able to ward off the most sinister threat.
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The truth is that not a single one of the official groups organising protests is planning violent action.
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The Umpires' Association had planned to table a motion giving an official vote of support for Lamb.
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Their applications came complete with curricula vitae and official Discharge Certificates and Conduct Assessments.
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Unlike Soviet official art, the shadowy presence of western popular art has not been systematically documented.