noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conference centre
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Westgate Hotel has sixty bedrooms and a conference centre.
a party conference
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He will give a speech at the Tory party conference this morning.
a peace conference
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Will the US be sending a delegate to the Middle East peace conference?
address a meeting/conference etc
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He addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
annual report/meeting/conference
conference call
held...press conference
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The Green Party held a press conference the next day.
news conference
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The chairman told a news conference that some members of staff would lose their jobs.
press conference
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The Green Party held a press conference the next day.
sporting/conference/concert etc venue
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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His announcement at the annual conference of the Association of Children's Reporters in Peebles received an immediate welcome from childcare agencies.
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An annual black communications conference was instituted to debate issues and encourage black recruitment by the networks and major publications.
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Waldegrave threw out the challenge to the physics community last week at the annual conference of the Institute of Physics in Brighton.
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Gabbidon is calling for directors to support an annual or biennial conference for these women and staff.
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Agriculture Department said Friday at its annual outlook conference .
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The Institute of Water and Environmental Management will be holding its annual conference concurrently.
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Friday's announcement came at the association's annual conference in Orlando, Fla.
conservative
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More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week.
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As I said at the Conservative party conference , I want to make it clear that our policy is colour blind.
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The Prime Minister and other ministers are expected to attend a Conservative conference in Cheltenham next spring.
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For instance, the Home Secretary is regularly criticised for leniency on such issues from this lobby at the Conservative Party conferences .
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They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest.
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Mr Parkinson is to defend the Government's stand at the Conservative Party conference next week.
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For the first time there will be a creche for children of representatives at the Conservative conference .
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Last week at the Conservative conference Mr Howard said prison life should not be a picnic.
international
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Michael made a good recovery, and was well enough to enjoy the international conference given at the time of his retirement.
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Lawyers, politicians and environmentalists have called for such action at an international conference in London organized by Greenpeace.
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In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences .
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It has been designed to be different from the usual run of the mill international tax conference .
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His proposals also called for an international peace conference on the Middle East.
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Active planning and discussion of an international conference occupied the early months of 1944.
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In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful.
joint
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Joint concluding press conference At their joint concluding press conference on June 3 the two leaders pronounced their summit a success.
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On June 3 they held a joint news conference .
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It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together.
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They should have held a joint conference .
labour
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Some things never change at a Labour conference .
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It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote.
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Morris had once done as much at a Labour Party conference in Blackpool.
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They've lobbied every Labour conference since 84.
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Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media's industry hacks at the Labour party conference .
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Who cast a shadow over the Labour conference by quitting the Shadow Cabinet? 2.
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They were at the Labour Party conference together last year and that's when it began.
national
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At a national conference I met a woman convenor of a local group of refuse collectors; she had ten children.
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Tshisekedi had refused to accept ministers from outside the national conference .
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The question of whether a national conference should be held was reportedly also under discussion.
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They advocated an immediate end to military rule and the holding of a national conference of all political forces.
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Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first.
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The national conference will bring together chairmen and chief executives of business partnerships, City Challenges and TECs.
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The reforms will have to be passed by the national conference where they will face considerable opposition.
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Any appointments made by Tshisekedi would need to be ratified by the national conference .
recent
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Much of the discussion at recent conferences has been on the recession and how hard it is hitting the industry.
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The awards were given during a recent engineers' conference .
tory
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Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Tory conference speech had little impact.
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Less than 2 weeks ago, Mr Heseltine had the party faithful squirming with delight at the Tory Party conference .
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Their warnings came amid bleak forecasts that sterling will plunge to a new low during this week's Tory conference at Brighton.
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And they clearly hope to get them down further before the Tory conference next month.
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A Tory conference probably has more than its due share of savers.
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Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference .
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The strong integrationist call dominates two-thirds of the 37 resolutions on Northern Ireland affairs submitted for next month's Tory conference .
■ NOUN
call
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Voters expecting to meet him were asked instead to watch a video and listen to a telephone conference call .
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The next afternoon at three, the conference call goes through.
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Participants in the conference call included Gingrich, other Republican leaders, and one of his lawyers, former Rep.
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Public disclosure of the conference call has sparked a political firestorm.
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The Times published excerpts from the conference call on Friday.
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Video links were set up in Tucson and Phoenix for family therapy conference calls .
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The conference call has been rearranged for later in the week.
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A conference call was arranged, and the three founders gathered at the tiny office.
case
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It should be noted, however, that this case was decided when parental attendance at case conferences was rare.
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He is also concerned about the low take-up of conducting case conferences by telephone.
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A case conference should consider what will happen in the future if violence occurs.
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However, case conferences are not just a forum for professional decision making.
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A special case conference was held in 1986 because he was not thriving as he should have done.
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No multi-disciplinary case conferences were held prior to these children being taken from their homes.
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The resident should be advised of the reasons for the case conference and the result.
centre
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Meanwhile, Unix System Labs has negotiated a Unix showcase area squat at the front door of the conference centre .
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But the playroom is to be absorbed into the retreat and conference centre next year.
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Ideally situated close to the town and conference centre , on the Brighton border and just off the seafront.
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Around the conference centre , the party rocks on with blithe disregard for the economic and political turbulence beyond.
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The conference centre contained one of the main entrances to the bunker.
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Size of conference centre 194 points 4.
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Located in a perfect position close to the seafront, entertainment, town centre and conference centre.
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They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre .
facility
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We carried out a survey to determine how buyers of conference facilities selected venues.
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With conference facilities to cater up to 300 people.
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Of the local hotels 11 have conference facilities .
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It will also provide additional conference facilities which have become so important to College income.
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It is a two storey structure which contains conference facilities and computer facilities for the University as a whole.
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The Leofric is also marketing its conference facilities aggressively.
hall
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He arrived at the conference hall after having a Campaign Group leaflet thrust into his hand.
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A conference hall for the under elevens.
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Their debate on Labour's plight rages far above the brawling oratory in the conference hall .
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Unfettered loyalty inside the conference hall .
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Anyway, at last night's show in a Wembley conference hall , there was only one contestant.
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Heartened by this exchange, Joshua re-entered the conference hall just as Norman Tebbit was getting to his feet.
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A programme is not just what happens in the conference hall .
news
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Fujimori and Montesinos held what turned out to be a fateful news conference on August 21.
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Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, in a taped statement broadcast at the news conference .
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She later closed the news conference with a song she made up.
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At the news conference , Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.
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On June 3 they held a joint news conference .
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D., said at a news conference also attended by Sens.
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The news conference in the state building was arranged by Sen.
peace
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This first session dealt mainly with co-operation between the two countries at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference .
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It was hoped that a formal accord would be signed at a national multiparty peace conference on Sept. 14.
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The peace conference in Madrid seems to me to subsume all past resolutions.
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In his view peace conferences were a waste of time; the old elm had outlived its usefulness.
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Because of international insistence on it, Resolution 242 is undoubtedly the entry ticket to an international peace conference .
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During his visits Baker attempted, unsuccessfully, to arrange a regional Middle East peace conference .
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And he could gain much at a peace conference , without having to fight for it.
press
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Not even glasnost and all its press conferences could change that.
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Its cameras followed the candidates around on the campaign, showing unabridged speeches, press conferences , walkabouts.
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There is no better example of journalism as part of the show than the press conference .
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After Clarke was sentenced, Jonathan's family held a press conference , begging others to stay away from drugs.
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A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.
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It was seventeen hours later, on Wednesday morning, that Landless held his own press conference .
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One difference: He disclosed those deals loudly, in very public press conferences .
room
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They get summoned into the conference room .
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Project team members will rent hotel conference rooms for the duration of the project, working on portable computers and call-forwarding.
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Behind the elegant partitions, leading to our private conference rooms , something roars.
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For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.
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It has a wide variety of rooms and ten well appointed conference rooms.
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The meeting took place a few days later in a hotel conference room .
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Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms .
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The massage takes place in conference rooms , where employees relax in massage chairs.
table
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The Doctor was hovering above the conference table in the classic lotus position.
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They sit at conference tables and discuss them in a civilised manner.
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The room has corporate gray carpeting and a conference table .
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A rectangular conference table and four chairs, of a type provided for senior public servants, stood between the tall windows.
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That is, unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table .
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The weekly meeting was held in his office at the conference table set in front of the south window.
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But did they talk headily around the conference table ?
■ VERB
address
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These are some of the questions to be addressed at the conference .
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He is not down to address the conference at all.
attend
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Yesterday I attended a conference for the Edmonton Clergy on Marriage.
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And inside, his biography, copies of which were distributed to the media attending the news conference .
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This was what they attended conference for, or at least why they bothered to turn up for the speeches.
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He used to attend teacher conferences .
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He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory.
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George Bell, retired, fatigued, soon to die, attended the conference against the advice of his doctor.
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On April 7 Modai attended the inaugural conference of his new party, the New Liberals.
hold
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In 1830, the National Association held its first conference .
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And why do they hold news conferences but never tell the public anything?
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You may hold or attend press conferences to announce news or show a product range.
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Prescott could have done something easy, like hold a new conference or issue a press release.
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Establish a Cabinet committee on health promotion. Hold a conference with voluntary organisations on implementing the 1993 community care programme.
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No one held a news conference to tout this one, and days passed before anyone caught wind of it.
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Last week, the big three held a press conference , vowing eternal friendship and no further comment.
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A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.
speak
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He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition, and will speak at their conference .
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Ellsworth, based in Los Angeles, spoke at the conference .
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Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux is billed to speak at two conference fringe meetings.
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He was speaking at a conference which follows three months of public consultation on changes to the telecommunications laws.
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Mr Mugabe did not speak at the conference .
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She was speaking at a conference looking at problems facing the countryside.
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I spoke at the press conference to launch this booklet.
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The original plan did not envisage a commercial use, he told Reuter after speaking at the conference .
tell
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It is not sufficient to tell the conference that there will be no return to mass picketing.
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On July 3 he told the conference that individual and group rights were inseparable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
summon a meeting/conference etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Baxter was in Boston attending a conference on the environment.
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Didn't you give a talk at the conference last year?
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Lewis recently spoke at a conference of women business leaders.
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Representatives from over 100 countries attended the International Peace Conference .
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She's an organizer of the International Conference on AIDS that the university has every year.
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Texas A&M won the Southwest Conference title last week with a 65-6 victory over SMU.
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The Institute of Accountants is holding its conference in Edinburgh this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides Stanford, whom the Ducks have yet to play, Washington is the toughest opponent in the conference .
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Do they come to the conference ?
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In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.
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James Brady is just one of hundreds of experts and survivors at a top level conference on brain injuries.
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The alliance, unveiled at a Windows hardware conference in San Jose, marks the entry of Dolby into the computer arena.
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We know this because White practically calls a news conference every day to relate those facts.