adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clerical/administrative error
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The applications forms were sent to the wrong addresses due to a clerical error.
an administrative chore (= a chore such as writing letters or paying bills )
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filling in forms and other administrative chores
an administrative post
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For the next twelve years, he held various administrative posts in Bombay.
an administrative/bureaucratic nightmare (= something that is very complicated and difficult to keep accurate records of )
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Dealing with so many new applications for asylum is an administrative nightmare.
an official/administrative receiver
legal/bureaucratic/administrative hassle
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It took weeks of bureaucratic hassle to get a replacement passport.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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This book is based on the view that the general principles of judicial review of administrative action are worth studying.
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
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Carter had advocated deregulation, but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action .
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Large areas of administrative action avoid the discipline of public justification.
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Under conditions of underdevelopment the political elite seeks wealth through the direction of public resources by administrative action . 8.
agency
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It also excludes various administrative agencies connected with the National Health Service and the nationalized industries.
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The church for its part acted as an administrative agency of colonial expansion and a major institution of social control.
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Roosevelt's New Deal programme was an exercise in regulatory government and led to a major growth in regulation by administrative agencies .
area
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And in other administrative areas , such as personnel and accounts, most of the supervisory and long-term experienced people opted for relocation.
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Some states counted administrative areas as urban units, and some counted agglomerations of a certain number of people.
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Thus government, i.e. local government, has strategic responsibility over its administrative area for the provision of sporting opportunities.
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In 1991, the city was divided into 16 administrative areas or regions through negotiations between urban residents and the municipal authorities.
arrangement
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Village life and the peasant outlook were conditioned by the administrative arrangements adopted at Emancipation.
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Taxes may be grouped by the administrative arrangement for their collection.
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Taxes may therefore be classified as either direct or indirect, according to the administrative arrangement for their collection.
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The partnership areas soon attracted most attention because of the joint administrative arrangements which were required between central and local government.
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There are separate administrative arrangements for committees.
assistant
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Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks.
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I had worked for many years as an administrative assistant and an executive assistant.
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The post is sometimes also known as administrative assistant .
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Until September, she was an administrative assistant at a geriatric hospital.
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The lack of help has forced the part-time student and administrative assistant to move to her parents' South San Francisco home.
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They need your help about everything from prospecting to how to get along with their administrative assistant .
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Lisa has two daughters, 12 and 16, and works as an administrative assistant in a bank.
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She also decided to redesign the functions of the two administrative assistants in the office, to get the help she needed.
authority
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The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration.
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However, the Commission operates much more like a diplomatic than an administrative authority with a strong emphasis on consultation and conciliation.
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These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts.
body
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The whole approach is flexible and has a great strength in the direct link to the highest administrative body .
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Robson recognized that, throughout history, courts have performed administrative functions and administrative bodies have undertaken judicial functions.
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Besides this diocesan system of priestly pastoral care, there are two other administrative bodies of crucial importance.
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Committees should cease to be executive or administrative bodies and should concentrate on policy determination.
burden
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The administrative burden would be lifted from local government; it would then be able to concentrate on the job in hand.
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The agency apparently also wants to ease its administrative burdens under the contracting ordinance.
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Authorities will face greater administrative burdens through the more detailed tendering provision.
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The administrative burden is increased but the processes are the same as those already in place for fundholding.
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How are management costs and the administrative burden of any of these models minimised?
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Legal regulation tends to create administrative burdens , resentment and loss of self-esteem through the undermining of professional autonomy.
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Extra responsibilities and administrative burdens were a major factor.
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Payment by automatic direct debit will further relive your administrative burden .
centre
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Taking advantage of its remoteness from the administrative centre of the Imperium they had enslaved the native inhabitants.
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The administrative centre of the manor was the manor house.
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Trade unions do not have the right to strike nor negotiate wage levels, which are determined by the administrative centre .
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Although vengeance had been wreaked on the assassins in Edinburgh, that was still by no means the main administrative centre .
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Today it is an important administrative centre and fishing port.
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A simple design of diameter some 65 feet, was part of the administrative centre in the agora in Athens.
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Edinburgh's growth as an administrative centre went hand in hand with this.
change
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Nevertheless, administrative change was not the main reason for the decline of the networks in the Southern Band.
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In 1965 a major administrative change took place.
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Meanwhile, in addition to these administrative changes , important developments were taking place within the hospitals as knowledge of mental disorder increased.
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With this transformation came administrative change and consolidation of a coherent political agenda.
control
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In fact, any text that needs administrative control can be included within its scope.
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Are there limits to administrative control over school-sponsored publications or plays?
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Among the changes being introduced are: Simplified financial and administrative controls .
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The transfer of certain functions of administrative control from central departments of government to the county councils - decentralisation; 6.
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Each water authority has its own form of organization, administrative control , and territorial jurisdiction.
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In the Soviet Union it is difficult to disentangle political from administrative controls .
convenience
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The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience .
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But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience , does not exist.
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Does he agree that access to justice is more important than administrative convenience ?
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Prices in such circumstances become an administrative convenience or merely irrelevant.
cost
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This is all attributable, directly or indirectly, to administrative costs and the work of the Bar Council and its committees.
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People will be compelled to spend the money on the truly needy recipients and not on administrative costs .
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Nevertheless contracting does incur greater administrative costs in the form of new accounting and information systems and staff.
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Only 10 to 15 percent goes toward administrative costs , which is certainly not exorbitant.
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Moreover, the administrative cost of the procedure for making awards is high.
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Term loans can generally be negotiated fairly quickly and at a low administrative cost .
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It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers.
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Economies of scale and the use of computers were expected to reduce administrative costs .
costs
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This is all attributable, directly or indirectly, to administrative costs and the work of the Bar Council and its committees.
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People will be compelled to spend the money on the truly needy recipients and not on administrative costs .
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It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers.
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Only 10 to 15 percent goes toward administrative costs , which is certainly not exorbitant.
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The Charity Commission says the new trustees are well on the way to restructuring their management and cutting administrative costs .
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The sites shared administrative costs , selectors and a catalogue which included an illustration and biographical details for each artist.
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Heat, light and power should be revised and contained at 3%, and administrative costs reduced to 10%.
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There also may be additional administrative costs .
decision
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Suppose a plaintiff suffers loss as a result of an illegal administrative decision .
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Principals must pay attention to the concerns of these groups when making administrative decisions .
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Judicial review of administrative decisions by central or local government and certain other bodies is now commonplace.
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Co-direction ensures that administrative decisions are made with the full understanding of the implications for all participants.
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This encouraged the courts to draw a rigid distinction between judicial and administrative decisions .
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Following this there was some suggestion that in administrative decisions there was a lower duty to act fairly.
detention
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There were a further 303 prisoners held under administrative detention , without trial.
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They would instead be placed in administrative detention in the Qeziot detention centre in the Negev.
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Amnesty International opposes the detention without trial of all political detainees, including administrative detention.
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Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
duty
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The Council also had powers as a criminal court in matters arising out of its administrative duties .
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Mead was bumped off major cases and firm committees, then given only administrative duties , the lawsuit alleges.
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By contrast a municipal corporation was a public governmental authority with administrative duties owed to all the inhabitants of its area.
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Precontest administrative duties were shared by several county superintendents in pre tion for the state spelling bee.
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She performed her share of administrative duties efficiently.
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The Department of Public Instruction provided a guideline of administrative duties , advice and judges for the state meet.
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This must be seen as a specialist task, on a par with other administrative duties and research commitments.
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Other clerical and administrative duties as required by the Acquisitions Librarian and the Chief Librarian.
efficiency
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A case can be made for both its constitutional propriety and its administrative efficiency .
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It assumes administrative efficiency will suffice when this may only have the most limited of practical effects.
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A second consideration is administrative efficiency .
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Then I had to wait some three years, and the attitude in hospital and lack of administrative efficiency was unpleasantly conspicuous.
expenses
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Loan interest paid by borrowers provides for interest on time deposits, staff salaries, other administrative expenses and shareholder dividends.
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The two largest declines came in engineering and general and administrative expenses .
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Turnover, cost of materials sold, net revenues and administrative expenses have been adjusted accordingly.
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However, reorganisation provisions necessarily include provisions for operating costs, such as redundancy costs and administrative expenses .
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Selling and administrative expenses for each year were £10,000.
framework
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Currently, much of the archival work reconstructing the administrative framework of the deposited documents is carried out retrospective to their creation.
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Over 600 economists, businessmen and politicians discussed ways to improve the commercial, legal and administrative framework of East-West economic co-operation.
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The former provide the managerial and administrative framework for moving products from supplier to customer.
function
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They may be said to be exercising an administrative function .
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There are additional administrative functions , such as the submission of a statement of affairs and the making of reports on specified matters.
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Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London. 7.
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Confusion also arose when schools took over administrative functions which traditionally had been located in LEAs.
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Robson recognized that, throughout history, courts have performed administrative functions and administrative bodies have undertaken judicial functions.
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Where administrative functions are not discharged by autonomous agencies, they are largely devolved to the Länder.
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Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed.
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Anyone performing administrative functions would be paid a working man's wage.
institution
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The latter would be subject to less extensive review than would tribunals and other administrative institutions .
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In 1945 there was immense confidence in the civic and administrative institutions of government.
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His Lordship drew no distinction as to the scope of review for inferior courts and administrative institutions .
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Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review.
job
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Concurrent with this programme of activity, there are dozens of administrative jobs to be done.
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That effort has already eliminated several hundred administrative jobs in its East Bay divisions.
law
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Public and administrative law Law can prohibit or regulate activities: The citizen can obey or break the law.
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Under the proposed changes, most of the same acts would be covered under an array of criminal and administrative laws .
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There is a powerful argument for saying that, in general, it should be subject to the rules of administrative law .
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The principle of the separation of powers is, for example, clearly evident in his views on administrative law .
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They may not however be equally suited to all the institutions that comprise administrative law .
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Secondly, this book is primarily about constitutional and administrative law and about governmental institutions.
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Much the same problem has arisen in administrative law .
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Generally, the area concerned with administration is known as public or administrative law .
matter
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Much of Barbarossa's continual political conflict was connected to administrative matters of this sort.
officer
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He will replace acting chief administrative officer Gary Stephany, who will assume his former post of assistant administrative officer.
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Hickson and Jacques became its Joint Secretaries and Pateman was its administrative officer .
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He will replace acting chief administrative officer Gary Stephany, who will assume his former post of assistant administrative officer.
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The secretary is the chief administrative officer of the company.
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The new charter, which was trimmed down to just 82 pages, replaces the chief administrative officer with a city administrator.
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In some councils certain key administrative officers are appointed on the basis of their political sympathies.
post
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Father Richard, who holds several administrative posts within the Benedictine order as well as being a parish priest, is a trained lawyer.
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All appointments to military and administrative posts were in the gift of the Grand Prince.
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A highly qualified horticulturist found his responsible and mainly administrative post terribly exhausting after his hearing became impaired.
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Some former students have taken up administrative posts in various public and private enterprises and in the civil service and local government.
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Appointments to administrative posts in government departments, public enterprises and other state bureaus are controlled by the appropriate party committee.
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For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay.
problem
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In addition to these considerations of Layfield, the collection of the tax should not be excessively costly or present substantial new administrative problems .
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At the same time, if governing poses few political problems , its administrative problems are immense.
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With children constantly moving between evacuation and reception areas, endless administrative problems arose.
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We are led to believe that there are administrative problems .
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A huge nutcracker is thus being deployed to crack a relatively small administrative problem .
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One consequence is that it has caused substantial administrative problems for us.
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But this creates difficult administrative problems about how often official valuations of property values are revised.
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The administrative problems of phasing out Powick fell into three main areas.
procedure
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She was labeled mentally disturbed and put in the psychiatric ward of a small hospital without any administrative procedure .
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Each participating State will provide appropriate legal and administrative procedures to protect the rights of all its forces personnel.
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The opening of a score of nuclear sites in some six years by conventional administrative procedures alone was inconceivable.
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To prove to me why I needed to really know the administrative procedures , he showed me some tricks....
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This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
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They also establish working and administrative procedures and policies.
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The managers failed to appreciate that interpretation of administrative procedures .
process
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Although the data largely result from censuses and surveys, an increasing volume of data arises from administrative processes .
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The urban renewal administrative process drew considerable criticism because it was so long and encumbered with red tape.
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But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process .
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Unger's view is confirmed by the transformation of divorce from a judicial to an administrative process .
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The implementation or administrative process is far too important to be left to its own devices.
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It was facilitated by the transformations within the administrative process itself.
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First, the administrative process becomes more politicized and less competent.
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This administrative process is very slow and limits the rate at which people can be sent back from Hong Kong.
receiver
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Joint administrative receiver Murdoch McKillop said cuts were part of a scaling down of production to meet reduced demand.
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Mr. Moss, for the applicants, went through all the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers .
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Every administrative receiver is born in this way.
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Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court.
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Against that general background I now consider the detailed statutory provisions relating to administrative receivers .
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Shop stewards will send the letter to joint administrative receiver Ipe Jacob, requesting it be presented to potential buyers.
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The powers of the administrative receiver are extensive and he will have complete control over the management of the company.
reform
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So, above all, the picture is of an administrative reform taking place for new mental health services to be created.
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They also appointed him to a commission to examine administrative reforms .
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He promised administrative reform , social justice, and an end to corruption.
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Mr Ryaas was then pushed, unwillingly, into a new role as minister for administrative reform .
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Deliberate assistance to economic growth went hand in hand with administrative reform aimed at channelling its profits firmly into princely treasuries.
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Yet the judicial and administrative reforms of 1289 in the duchy gave rise to certain anxieties.
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As we have indicated earlier, though, the dynamic of administrative reform seems to have been fairly arbitrary in terms of central government.
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The basic problem with budgetary reform is that it not only requires administrative reform, but also strong political support.
responsibility
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They are the direct administrative responsibility of the local authorities, and are covered only by normal development control.
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Their peers saw their administrative responsibilities as unprofessional and of limited value. 7.
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The development of programme structures was seen as an additional administrative responsibility rather than a substitute for previous ones.
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The new managers saw their administrative responsibilities as serving two purposes.
service
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Usually an administrative service , e.g. notifying all interested parties that a Design Change is awaiting assessment.
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As the size of the firm increases, administrative services managers are more likely to specialize in one or more support activities.
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Organisationally, the working of both payroll and personnel records has been very useful in providing an efficient administrative service .
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Advancement is easier in large firms that employ several levels of administrative services managers.
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The General Secretariat carries out the decisions of the Council and provides financial and administrative services for the personnel of the League.
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Many firms are increasingly contracting out administrative services positions and otherwise streamlining these functions in an effort to cut costs.
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In addition, some categories of administrative services managers may grow more quickly than others.
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Some administrative services managers oversee unclaimed property disposal.
staff
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Evaluations of policies are conducted through research and expert analysis supported by the Presidium's administrative staff .
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Clinical and administrative staff flew out immediately from Virginia.
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Health authorities are supported by medical and by administrative staff .
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The team has control over virtually everything, from maintenance of the building to the curriculum to the hiring of administrative staff .
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Vacancies for administrative staff are currently 5.3 percent.
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It was this clientele which Hunter and his administrative staff took on in Tucson, in January 1994.
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In fact, the forward-thinking firm employs 13 administrative staff together with several drivers and warehouse staff and many dedicated sub-contractors.
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Kim runs the centre from day to day, recruiting, training and developing the administrative staff .
structure
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The growth in partisan organisation on local authorities presents problems of integrating the political reality of decision-taking with the formal administrative structure .
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The essential work of the administrative structure is the implementation of policy.
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The Board took over the legal aid scheme's administrative structure and most of the staff.
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This brief and general list of functions suggests the enormous breadth and depth of the administrative structure and its activities.
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At the same time the administrative structures overseeing some of the country's bigger concerns would be dismantled.
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Figure 1 shows the Units' administrative structure .
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Fieldwork was conducted in two of the three regions, each of which has its own particular administrative structure .
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He will also have to learn something about the administrative structure of his chosen place and how it has changed over time.
support
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They will have a great deal of expertise to offer within the administrative support function.
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An administrative support team handled such matters as payroll, accounts payable, purchasing, and employment sourcing.
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We will give schools increased administrative support in return for the wider opening of their facilities to the local community.
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The research involves monitoring the effects of implementing these administrative support functions in over 140 practices nationwide.
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They lacked the resources and administrative support that larger companies routinely employ to influence the political process.
system
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In most cases when computers are purchased by enterprises, it is to run administrative systems like bookkeeping.
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Thus the administrative system tends to be larger, in relation to the society, as the political system becomes more totalitarian.
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Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system .
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The generic names of these political structures are familiar: legislatures, executives, administrative systems , and judiciaries.
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His career epitomizes the interactions between the obligations of patron and client and the public service under the old administrative system .
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A broader definition of the executive includes not only the chief executive,-but also the entire administrative system .
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New administrative systems were needed to avoid confusion.
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Another flaw was rooted in the structure of the administrative system .
task
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There were noticeable omissions in some areas, primarily those concerned with administrative tasks .
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Many of these requests involved administrative tasks .
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All practices agreed that preparing for and implementing fundholding was an enormous administrative task .
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After breakfast I take a stroll around the base checking that all the daily administrative tasks have been completed.
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They can perform simple administrative tasks which were previously both dull and expensive.
tribunal
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The law of contempt does not apply to reinforce the decisions of administrative tribunals .
unit
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The smaller regional administrative units had initialled the Treaty on March 18.
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These administrative units are too cumbersome.
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The problems and criticism that arose from this decision, however, reflected the varying sizes of the administrative units .
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Registration districts usually cover very different areas from the administrative units that the local historian is more familiar with.
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For central government the region became a convenient administrative unit .
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Larger administrative units are usually associated with a greater concentration of service outlets.
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Such a presence must take the form of an onshore administrative unit responsible for the management of the fishing vessel concerned.
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None the less a good deal of basic information can still be portrayed with the traditional concept of population density based on administrative units .
work
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MORE than half say the new system imposes excessive administrative work .
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There were no major cases on hand and he had no excuse for neglecting the routine administrative work .
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They are employed mainly in clerical and administrative work .
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Government money was only made available to meet the cost of the administrative work involved.
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A lot of firms need to buy computer power when their administrative work takes up too much time.
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Systems which streamline administrative work and can be linked into other areas of the practice are being used more and more.
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No grant-aid was available for administrative work , of which Pateman's salary represented the largest single item.
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It matters little to the efficient running of the Civil Service where the administrative work of a department is carried out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Phil's job is mainly administrative .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All that remained was that lovely blank undecorated space upstairs which led up to the administrative offices.
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And these rules may, of course, be enforced by an administrative hierarchy to which the subject may appeal.
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I had worked for many years as an administrative assistant and an executive assistant.
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In the seventh year, to February 1990, the administrative costs involved in giving moneys to authors stood at 14%.
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Several committee members never saw the final version that emerged after government review and federal administrative editing.
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Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system.
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The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing.
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There are additional administrative functions, such as the submission of a statement of affairs and the making of reports on specified matters.