noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an item on the agenda/list/menu
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The next item on the agenda is next month’s sales conference.
set the agenda (= establish what subjects should be discussed )
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We are not attempting to set the agenda for other women’s groups.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conservative
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Camberwick Green, probably unwittingly, supplied me with a conservative counter agenda to the counter-culture.
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With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda .
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In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda .
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You can't bring the country together and drive through the conservative agenda at the same time.
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But they all accepted the Conservative agenda for debate.
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Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda .
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The first two reveal an essentially conservative , royalist agenda .
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I can help keep a conservative agenda in the House.
different
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They would come in with different agendas .
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Non-college women with children struggling to make ends meet have a different agenda from that of single college-educated women with hot careers.
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You might have experimented by having a different person take the chair for different agenda items.
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Feminists believe that women need to be proportionally represented in Parliament and Congress because women have a different agenda .
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Unknown to him, others in the party have very different agendas .
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It made a powerful bandwagon for people with different agendas .
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The different agenda and methodology for each process meant that there was little in common between them.
domestic
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Their domestic agendas and failings, even their backgrounds, are surprisingly similar.
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And what are the centrepieces of Bush's domestic agenda ?
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Most are constrained by limited resources and by intractable domestic agendas that impede their capability to implement policy.
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President Mitterand continued to be very active in foreign policy, but allowed the premier to control the domestic policy agenda .
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The president has put the fight against corruption high on his domestic agenda .
economic
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But signs of a pick-up will do nothing soon to cut unemployment, now at the top of the economic agenda .
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The introduction and failure of this project provide a good idea of why a separate black economic agenda has always been stifled.
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Taxes and the budget are obvious topics as Republicans fashion an economic agenda for the national convention.
hidden
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For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.
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To have no secrets, no abnormal fears, no hidden agenda .
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The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda .
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There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.
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What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.
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In fact, as we have argued, governments may have hidden agendas and their priorities may fluctuate according to political cycles.
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The hidden agenda helps to explain although not to justify it.
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I should like to make a couple of points about the Bill's two substantive provisions before turning to its hidden agenda .
high
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In each of the schools, the library was clearly still high on the agenda for forward planning and review.
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The struggle for abortion rights was high on our agenda .
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In both cases, turf maintenance is high on the agenda - and head groundsman Steve Tingley is already is Paris.
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However, the key factor will be whether the president puts campaign finance reform high on his agenda for next year.
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In these circumstances it was no accident that planning and resourcing were high on the agenda for internal debate.
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Romance is high on the agenda , though.
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It is important that the rights of all minorities within all the territories should be high on the agenda at the conference.
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The struggle to survive has undoubtedly been higher up the agenda of some firms than preparing for the reforms.
international
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By the time the Ballot result was declared in June, Mussolini's Abyssinian ambitions dominated the international agenda .
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The missile defence issue is without question the most troublesome, time-consuming and potentially dangerous item on the current international agenda .
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In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda , with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.
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Mr Brown has expended much effort pushing the issue up the international agenda .
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These issues have quickly moved on to the international agenda in the past few years, taking governments and industries by surprise.
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Mrs Chan's standing abroad helped keep Hong Kong on the international agenda .
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The issue is moving rapidly up the international development agenda .
legislative
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It also cleared the way for the Senate to take action on Mr Bush's cabinet nominees and his legislative agenda .
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With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda .
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The chamber's procedural rules mean that the Democrats will now gain control of its legislative agenda .
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To be sure, an inaugural address is not the occasion for a president to list the details of his legislative agenda .
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Also, as the Senate leader, Dole can contrast himself with Clinton with a legislative agenda that reinforces his campaign message.
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However, Clinton has no illusions that the Republican Congress would react favorably to a legislative agenda , McCurry said.
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Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
national
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This racialization of the debate was further propelled on to local and national agendas by campaigning black parents and teachers.
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The national reconstruction agenda is taking priority.
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By participating at an early stage, we hoped to have some influence on the national agenda .
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Already they are beginning to shape the new international and national political agendas .
new
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This is a formidable new agenda to be imposed - and implemented within a very short time-scale - on top of the existing programme.
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The New Democrat agenda of his 1992 campaign tried to update liberalism by pursuing new means to advance traditional Democratic goals.
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The evening has a new agenda .
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Then money dries up, new political agendas are drawn, the people leave, new ones cease to come.
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Few general elections or administrations map out a new agenda .
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He has to extend and define what the New Democrat agenda means in the post-Clinton era.
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We have a new leader, proven in office, and a new agenda - yet a tried set of principles.
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But neither side offers a major new agenda .
political
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Many artists in the 1930s followed an overtly political agenda .
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Federal tax law bars use of such funds to further a political agenda .
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It was fought on the narrowest of political agendas .
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The nature of the revolution, its many twists and turns, forces historians to declare their political agenda at the outset.
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In the short term, however, the Milan Conference had the beneficial result of placing deaf education on the political agenda .
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Then money dries up, new political agendas are drawn, the people leave, new ones cease to come.
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For the first time since he became leader, he is in the position to set the political agenda .
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Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas .
real
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Instead of a real agenda , Dodd offers generalities about opportunity, job security and growth.
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Causing such changes to happen was not Ronald Reagan's real agenda in the first place.
republican
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Yet, the aspiration for social cohesion is the unstated aim of much of the republican agenda in New Labour.
social
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Second, it evacuates the social and political agendas that often informed the movements identified in favour of a deracinated art.
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President Clinton is also tinkering with private pension plans to finance his own social agenda .
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So they conclude with a social policy agenda .
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They have more than enough time in school if they stay off the social agendas .
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Fitting in with her hectic social agenda I was most conveniently dropped off and picked up by car.
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And so standards, in engineering, were not seen as the stalking-horse for some elitist social agenda .
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The students are generally hipper than Oregon Staters, with more body piercings per square inch and broader social agendas .
top
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That's top of the agenda .
■ NOUN
item
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You might have experimented by having a different person take the chair for different agenda items .
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He has signed into law several of his top agenda items , including a tougher juvenile justice code.
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It is not viable to create agenda items which partners will find irrelevant or unmanageable.
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On Wednesday 13 February, we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item .
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Problems and progress in the evolution of teaching skills are an important agenda item for such meetings.
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As the name implies, the initial intention was more general than the agenda item and inorganic chemical nomenclature was included.
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Notice of agenda items to me please, preferably by the preceding Friday in each case.
policy
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So they conclude with a social policy agenda .
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The president will unveil a specific policy agenda in his State of the Union message Feb. 4.
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If there is, for example, an active regional policy , then regional issues need not be on the competition policy agenda .
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President Mitterand continued to be very active in foreign policy , but allowed the premier to control the domestic policy agenda .
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Her own policy agenda , as King notes, has often been separate from that of the Cabinet or Conservative party.
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Supporters and many critics agree that the old policy agenda has been turned upside down.
research
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Hence non-decision making must be part of the research agenda into community power.
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Unsolved problems provide much of the research agenda .
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In these studies, racism is also a more explicit part of the research agenda .
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Spatial analysis features particularly prominent on the research agenda relating to natural and technological hazards and geodemographics.
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This has recently been approved and the first meeting which will set a research agenda will be held in July 1989.
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For in defining any research agenda two pitfalls have to be avoided.
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The Centre has limited its research agenda initially to four programme areas.
■ VERB
advance
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It can advance the school's agenda by assisting academic and personal development.
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Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas .
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At issue was whether Gingrich improperly used charitable enterprises to advance his partisan agenda .
dominate
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By the time the Ballot result was declared in June, Mussolini's Abyssinian ambitions dominated the international agenda .
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In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda , with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.
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As usual, the papers predict that tax will dominate the agenda .
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If moderates fail to reach a compromise, or even to talk, the extremists on both sides will dominate the agenda .
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Balancing the budget dominated managerial agendas in practice.
hide
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When we inquired if there was some hidden agenda here, the good folk denied it, and we believe them.
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All the while there was a hidden agenda: to Salomonize the trainee.
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Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.
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She has no hidden political agenda , but she does challenge the cultural inheritance that would encourage her silence.
implement
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But the experts rated Reno seventh for implementing the Clinton agenda .
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The latter were critical; only by effective network building could the new managers implement their agendas .
include
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The agenda includes the Tuscan countryside, with departures Aug. 29, Sept. 27 and Oct. 10.
pursue
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The NGOs are suspect because they are often foreign-funded and therefore, by definition, pursuing a foreigner's agenda .
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The two political parties pursued uncompromising ideological agendas .
push
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These programmes need to question and push forward the agenda of the news programmes.
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In an address to the House, Gingrich promised to push an activist agenda .
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And several senators are keener on pushing their own agendas than kowtowing to Mr Lott.
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They pushed an agenda to reverse recent academic reforms and give students more power within the university administration.
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Gays and progressives also pushed the same degaying agenda , Fumento charged, but for opposite reasons.
put
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Mr Rayner has also put crime on the agenda .
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I think that has to be put on the agenda and talked about.
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The council was informed about the anniversary two years ago but has dragged its heels over putting it on any agenda .
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We should put on the agenda the question: what is globalisation for?
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But the issue of Somerset House, which he has put on the political agenda , will not fade.
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I have not discussed that with the others yet but perhaps it is something to put on the agenda for the future.
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The Expenditure Sub-Committee put it on their agenda and questioned witnesses at length as to their views.
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But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists, the substantive gains they achieved were limited.
set
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Both men believe they are best-placed to set the agenda for Langbaurgh in the Nineties.
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Brown successfully set the agenda in 1993 with an innovative summit on the economy held early in the year in Los Angeles.
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As a result, the Bank's view set the agenda for subsequent reforms.
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They asked teachers to set the learning agenda for them-selves.
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But we have both a general reason for setting a classical agenda , and two particular ones.
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Since then, the middle class has set the political agenda and put the old-style politicians and generals on the defensive.
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He seemed like a man unable to set his own agenda .
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The first two criteria have to do with setting agendas and the others with building networks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (at the) top of the list/agenda
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Improving education is at the top of the mayor's agenda.
hidden agenda
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Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere, I feel I've gained considerably from the hidden agenda.
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Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface.
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For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.
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Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.
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It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we don't always get what we think we want.
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The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.
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There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.
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What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Have you got a copy of the agenda for tomorrow's meeting?
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The fuel crisis will be at the top of the agenda for today's board meeting.
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The new leaders have been very aggressive in promoting their conservative agenda .
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What do you do if you want to discuss something that's not on the agenda ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first sight, then, the issue would not seem to be on the agenda .
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Few general elections or administrations map out a new agenda .
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In the meantime, federal economic development funds transform the municipal agenda .
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The election leaves it with no agenda for governing such division, even if it claims a victory.
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The first is the ability to communicate: to find a theme, to focus on an agenda .
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The following conferences did place racism on the agenda , and all white participants were expected to take it seriously.
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The president will unveil a specific policy agenda in his State of the Union message Feb. 4.
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Yet, the aspiration for social cohesion is the unstated aim of much of the republican agenda in New Labour.