noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inferior status formal (= an inferior position )
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As a slave, he was aware of his inferior status.
maintain/preserve/defend the status quo (= not make any changes )
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Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
marital status
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Marital status: married/single/divorced
status quo
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Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
status symbol
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A Rolls Royce is seen as a status symbol.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
current
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His expulsion is probably more justified in terms of his considerable long-term potential as a spy than in terms of his current status and responsibilities.
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A mode is a current status , a condition.
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It contains the entry identifiers and information about the current version and status of entries in the Working-Set.
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Immunopathology of leprosy granulomas-\#current status: A review.
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He knows that the current constitutional status of Kosovo is unsustainable.
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The sample is being selected from an earlier survey which examined household structure, work and histories and current employment status .
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The dive planning screen is a look-ahead facility showing a selection of depths and no-stop times depending on your current decompression status .
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In addition historical information about the current status as well as the automatic processes applied to the text are contained in the history flag fields.
economic
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What is striking about crime in Sri Lanka is the relatively high economic and social status of criminals.
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She did not have clothes to suit her new, lowly economic status .
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The war has accentuated the disparities both in educational level and general economic status between different regions of the country.
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It tells us a great deal about class origins and economic status .
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Communicating can also be influenced by the economic status of the Local Government group which serves a neighbourhood.
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This advocacy of the golden-cheeked warbler endangers the economic status of many people.
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As a result, they decided to change their economic status from either unemployment or sickness to early retirement.
equal
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Relationships in which the two individuals concerned are of exactly equal status are very unusual.
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Does equality have to mean sameness for spouses in order to have equal power and status in our most basic family relationships?
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What then of researching known subjects of equal status within your peer group?
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Will equal status be given to road and rail investment?
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On Nov 1, 13 Moravian and Silesian parties signed a charter demanding equal and independent status within Czechoslovakia.
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These two professional bodies continue to the present day, with their members enjoying an equal professional status .
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Correspondingly most of the persons in a close network of relationships are of unequal rather than equal status .
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We should see our respective institutions as having equal status , and our individual functions as equivalent regardless of grade. 7.
high
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You're not into playing apparent high status .
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It is obvious that high socioeconomic status does not insulate children from this particular type of academic failure.
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Such legitimation could not be provided by other than a high status firm.
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Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority.
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And the more people you influence, the higher your status .
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In Bristol, often the pressure is to go for high status careers.
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The language of rights, legitimate expectations or privileges should not be elevated to any higher status .
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It doesn't matter if the woman is older, of higher status or a total stranger.
legal
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The change in legal status meant that the couple were deprived of that right.
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If his legal status is to be changed, he must rely on the generosity of the citizens.
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This identity is partly a legal status , partly a feeling.
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The legal status of organisations such as these is analogous to that of a club.
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Marshall traced the development of a legal status of citizenship in the United Kingdom through a number of historical stages.
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These have a distinct administrative and legal status and traditions.
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To translate this new legal status into political action would have required an organised support basis and this did not exist.
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Then there is the question of her legal status .
low
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A small part of law work, and that of a very low status , is concerned with the working class.
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Conversely, they were punished with a lower standard of living and consequent lower status if they chose to have large ones.
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We shall consider two possible causal factors: being female and being in a low status job.
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Also, a low socioeconomic status and a suppressed immune system may put women at significantly higher risk.
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But, perhaps because everyone does it, teaching has a traditionally low status in the medical world.
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They were, however, unable to evade their low social status .
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It is a symptom of ageism reflecting the low status of dependent elderly people including those in residential homes.
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These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy.
marital
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Among the very elderly, 75 and over, the difference between the marital status of the sexes increases.
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Many single women aged eighteen to sixty-five are secure in their marital status .
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In Western society an individual's marital status and occupational status are achieved.
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California law prohibits housing discrimination based on marital status .
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Future trends in marital status Future trends in marital status are subject to some uncertainty.
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Discreet inquiries about my marital status were made through colleagues at the paper.
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In 1981 there were marked differences in the marital status of men and women in the older age groups.
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Household size, marital status , and ethnicity all failed to show a significant influence in the participation model.
professional
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Ida Smedley was instrumental in advancing the professional status of university women.
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Both Mark and Tracy sacrificed professional status and money for time; neither regrets it.
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A society of master chefs was formed to achieve professional status similar to that of doctors or lawyers for its members.
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But the effect is constantly to trivialise the engineer's professional status .
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Some of the occupational groups which claim professional status lack many of the attributes of professionalism.
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They have to understand that it does not diminish their professional authority and status if they share decision-making with the governing body.
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But these are no greater than are required to substantiate a claim to professional status .
social
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In social status they varied considerably.
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They objected to just about everything about the man-his Anglo ethnicity, social status , and religion, and even his looks.
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These operate on the principle of ranking-differences in social status between people.
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High Machs are as likely to be found among the underprivileged as those people with high social status .
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The education and social status of the minister had risen notably during the century while his income had not.
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It was a sign of Low Rent origins, of inferior social status , of poor taste.
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What is striking about crime in Sri Lanka is the relatively high economic and social status of criminals.
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They maybe the only obvious signs of social status .
special
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It was rare treat, and it helped elevate the film to special status .
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Beal maintains victims should be an important part of the process, but says they have no special legal status .
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For instance, if there is one other woman engineer she may detract from your special status .
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The special status they have is not one which needs grounding or justification.
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Recognition of this special status is essential for their continuing to play an important part in their communities.
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They had special status and legal protection and there were prescribed penalties for those attacking or injuring them.
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This effect is traced inpart to the special status afforded to characters which are introduced through proper names.
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They abolished the special status of man as hitherto conceived.
■ NOUN
health
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Grossman assumes that the only benefit to increased health status is in income returns in the labour market.
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Outcomes are considered the ultimate indicators of quality measuring the actual health status of the client.
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Indeed, debates about changes in health status are dominated by the use of traditional health indices such as mortality.
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The first step is to establish that linkage between nutrition factors and health status in a systematic way.
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Will the extreme gender differences in health status continue?
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It involved following the health status and disabilities of a national sample of people for 12 years.
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It is accepted that within any given population there are natural variations in health status .
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Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
refugee
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Najera said Rawa's family has applied for refugee status but no decision has been made.
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Ahmed Katangole was due to be deported, the Home Office had refused him refugee status .
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We will provide a fair and expeditious system for examining claims for refugee status .
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I was fortunate to be granted full refugee status in under a year, this entitled me to bring my family here.
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Apparently white farmers are to be offered immediate refugee status , no questions asked.
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Mr. Young How many of the boat people have been granted refugee status ?
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As numbers rise, a decreasing proportion are found to qualify for refugee status .
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Shortly after my interview, Delhi announced that the Karmapa had been granted refugee status .
symbol
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Horses have to be considered initially as status symbols and later as draught and transport animals as well.
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Milky white skin was an upper-class status symbol .
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Are status and status symbols really necessary?
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This is the big mama of grass revenge, a power cutter and a status symbol .
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Individual scores became a status symbol .
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New technologies can turn from status symbol to ball and chain overnight.
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Clocks thus came to be regarded as status symbols .
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Rather, each new office is likely to look much like the rest, with few status symbols attached.
trust
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Only about 60 people turned up to a recent candle-lit vigil outside Orsett hospital supposedly a protest against trust status being given.
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The hospitals that are the subject of the trust status already offer a record of success.
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I have already spelt out in great detail the criteria that I shall apply when considering Foresterhill's application for trust status .
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Some hospitals south of the border already have trust status .
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Powys health unit has been invited to prepare an application for trust status in April 1993.
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Those are some of the improvements that can be looked forward to at South Ayrshire under trust status .
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They recognise the advantages that will flow from trust status .
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Does the hon. Gentleman really want to set his face against the improvements that trust status could deliver?
■ VERB
accord
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More controversially, the Crown for certain unpaid taxes and other levies is also accorded the status of preferential creditor.
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The development team, recognizable by their custom-made royal-blue bowling shirts, were accorded celebrity status .
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In Western art the artist is accorded the status of some one endowed with particular sensitivities and vision.
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Parents are accorded a totally new status in the 1958 Bill.
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That the subject was in fact normally accorded Cinderella status mattered little to the many who objected to its being there at all.
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The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear.
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A trade accord was signed in which each country accorded the other most-favoured-nation status .
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On the one hand, it accords no special status to police findings or to the police file.
achieve
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A society of master chefs was formed to achieve professional status similar to that of doctors or lawyers for its members.
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He saw the company achieve its current status of international acclaim.
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Stalin, let alone Mao, has never achieved remotely comparable diabolic status .
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In 1966 Ford introduced its first Bronco model, a bare-bones brute that has achieved collector status .
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Digital Typography has achieved such status , Hypermedia is following.
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After he achieved celebrity status through Dynasty he took to visiting hospitals and rehabilitation centres warning youngsters of the dangers of drugs.
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In 1949 the College achieved full status as an integral school of the university.
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What percentage of schools in Hampshire will have to achieve grant-maintained status for the local education authority to become redundant?
acquire
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Bezannes From no specific mention in the échelle this growth acquired premier cru status in 1985.
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Affirmation depends on negation: white is valued at the expense of black; youth acquires status through the devaluation of ageing.
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These days the practice of story-telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form.
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You first have to acquire non-resident status .
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But for most retirees, acquiring unconditional non-resident status can take up to three years.
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During the period of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, Parliament acquired enhanced status .
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Some women have acquired status as heroines.
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But Kampuchea failed to acquire this status .
change
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But if you are close to these ages and not currently contracted out it may not be worth changing your status .
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Each has the right to change its status in this respect, subject to relevant agreements and procedures.
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Building societies were converting into banks, insurance companies were changing their status , the air was thick with windfalls.
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To argue against changing the status quo, which everybody knows compromises democracy, is a terribly pessimistic position.
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If it is given, it will change his status among them.
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In the name of humanity and self-interest, we ought to be working to change their status to legal.
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This also automatically changes the status to Accepted.
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The introduction of the National Curriculum has changed the status of this equipment.
enjoy
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Such jobs enjoy a higher status and may be considered more popular and glamorous than others.
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The other trainees enjoyed the status of almost free men.
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At present, only 2 percent of the country's forests enjoy any protected status .
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Nonprofit hospitals enjoy tax-exempt status in exchange for meeting such community needs.
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Anglican priests once enjoyed the status of country squires.
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In 1977, only 85 people enjoyed this fortunate tax status .
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Spinsters and widows enjoyed the legal status of femme sole in which they had control of their own affairs.
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True, the movie enjoyed a brief cult status .
give
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They both knew what Mrs Diamond had said, but neither proposed to give it the status open discussion would confer.
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N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
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This gave married women independent status as taxpayers, i.e. they could control their own tax affairs.
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Woodward and Bernstein had already given journalism glamour and status with the Watergate story.
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In 1988, they were given National Park status by a special Act of Parliament.
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The anytime / anyplace business world leaves those whose position in the old hierarchy gave them status and power upset and uneasy.
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I have noted your suggestion that the countryside which surrounds Queensferry should be given Green Belt status .
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In fact, genetics gives the science a status it once lacked.
grant
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Following an agreement with the St Lucian government, electronic equipment and chandlery have been granted duty-free status .
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The judge has not yet granted class-action status .
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I was fortunate to be granted full refugee status in under a year, this entitled me to bring my family here.
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I would be on trial for the first year, and if I did okay, I would be granted regular status .
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In the following year the Institute was granted Technical College status .
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Again, the Orphics were among the first to raise the question of evil and to grant it mythological status .
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Mr. Young How many of the boat people have been granted refugee status ?
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Bush on Nov. 9 had signed a congressional resolution granting Czechoslovakia most-favoured-nation trading status .
lose
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The channel has lost its amateur status and become a grown-up, professional outfit.
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The instant they acquire a seventy sixth shareholder, they lose their status as S corporations.
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They are in danger of losing their spectator status .
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Public lands returned to original owners in the name of environmental justice will not necessarily lose their conservation status .
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If the truth about Kalu were to be known, they would lose their status in the village.
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Elsewhere, churches seem to have lost their status and gone out of use.
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Those who were Protestant lost patience, status , or, in some cases, limb and life.
maintain
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Despite these disadvantages, many older people have been able to maintain their social status by remaining active, alert and healthy.
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These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban, and a total ban.
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Egocentrism acts to maintain the structural status quo.
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But this is a result of those at the top of the hierarchy maintaining their status amongst their subordinates.
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True reconciliation, however, means anything but maintaining the status quo.
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We want to maintain our sense of status .
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Between 1877 and 1900 the Constitution and statutes drafted by the Republicans were circumvented or utilized to maintain the racial status quo.
preserve
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During these times it was the unchristian practice of most priests to preserve the status quo by backing the king and nobles.
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To compensate, and, anxious to preserve his patriarchal status , he may become querulous and demanding instead.
raise
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Taking a friend aside and sharing your views afterwards may be safer, but it won't raise your status .
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The kind of dependence that marriage creates between adult spouses raises substantive questions of status and power.
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We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out.
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It raises the status , and esteem of the children.
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This raises the status of the ticket in the public's mind.
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Meetings Meetings provide good opportunities to practise persuasion and to raise your status among subordinates, peers and bosses.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the status quo
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both sides are arguing over the future status of the disputed city.
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By accepting the prize money, Wilkerson will probably lose his amateur status .
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In many cultures, children remain the major source of status for women.
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In the Middle Ages, priests and other religious figures had a very high status .
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Many mothers feel that they have very low status in today's society.
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Now that he was a bank manager, he wanted a car that would reflect his status .
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She gained celebrity status with her publication of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."
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The latest mobile phones have become status symbols among teenagers.
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The tribe buried their dead with ornaments or tools that showed the dead person's status .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this is a result of those at the top of the hierarchy maintaining their status amongst their subordinates.
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Gingrich was both passionate and adamant about what needed to be done to push the party toward majority status .
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Outcomes are considered the ultimate indicators of quality measuring the actual health status of the client.
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That the subject was in fact normally accorded Cinderella status mattered little to the many who objected to its being there at all.
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These positions were not held for his own status but to promote the cause of rowing where it needed clout.
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We are both exalted and fallen at the same time: sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things.
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Women remain severely oppressed and see their status primarily in terms of children.