verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an established convention (= one that has been used for a long time )
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There are established conventions for how you should end a letter.
an established custom
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He had criticized some of the school’s established customs.
assess/establish/determine the extent of sth
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We are still trying to assess the extent of the problem.
build up/establish a circle
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Michael built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide.
create/produce/establish a code
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They have established a code of practice for advertisers.
determine/establish/identify the cause (= discover definitely what it is )
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A team of experts is at the scene of the accident, trying to determine the cause.
establish a basis ( also lay a basis ) (= create something from which something can be developed )
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The agreement established a sound basis for international commerce.
establish a business
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She overcame many financial difficulties to establish her business.
establish a connection (= show that there is one )
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Scientists have attempted to establish a connection between these two theories.
establish a pattern
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You should try to establish a pattern of working that suits you.
establish a principle (= make it accepted )
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Establish the principle that when your office door is shut you must not be disturbed.
establish a relationship (= prove that it exists )
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The book tries to establish a relationship between the war and social unrest in Europe.
establish a reputation (= make people accept that you are good at doing something )
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By then Picasso was already establishing his reputation as an artist.
establish a tradition
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They are continuing a tradition established by the firm’s Victorian founder.
establish communication
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My job is to establish good communication with our hotel guests.
establish contact
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The police are trying to establish contact with the kidnappers.
establish the criteria for sth
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Management establishes the criteria for each project.
establish ties
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Israel established full diplomatic ties with the Vatican in 1994.
establish your credibility
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Dave had already established his credibility with the department managers.
establish/assert/impose/stamp your authority (= show people that you have authority )
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The new manager was anxious to establish her authority.
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Robertson quickly stamped his authority on the team.
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The State Department pressed him to take bolder steps to assert his authority.
establish/build up/develop (a) rapport
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He built up a good rapport with the children.
establish/create/provide an agenda (= begin to have an agenda )
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We need to establish an agenda for future research.
establish...credentials
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He spent the first part of the interview trying to establish his credentials as a financial expert.
establish/develop relations
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The company has tried to establish relations with several universities.
establish/form/set up a council
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A National Radio and Television Council was established to regulate the market.
establish/piece together the facts (= find out what actually happened in a situation )
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The police are still piecing together the facts.
establish/reach a diagnosis
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It is important to establish the diagnosis and begin treatment quickly.
find/establish a motive
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So far the police have been unable to establish a motive for the murder.
forge/establish links
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Organizers of the project hope that international links will be forged.
found/establish a company
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The company was founded in 1993 by William J. Nutt.
gain/establish a foothold
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Extreme right-wing parties gained a foothold in the latest European elections.
lay down/establish ground rules for sth
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Our book lays down the ground rules for building a patio successfully.
long established
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long established traditions
prove/confirm/establish the existence of sth (= prove that something exists )
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The images confirm the existence of water on the planet's surface.
securely established
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By that time, democracy had become securely established in Spain.
set up/establish a fund
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They have set up a fund to build a memorial to all those who died.
set up/establish a working group (to do sth)
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The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
set up/establish/create a commission
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They set up a commission to investigate the problem of youth crime.
set up/establish/create a zone
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The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
set/establish a precedent
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The decision is important as it could set a legal precedent for other similar cases.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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She has already established herself as a backing singer specialising in jazz and stands to win professional recording sessions.
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These are instructions telling us how we may derive new propositions from propositions already established .
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He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when some one else had already established priority on the inside.
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Already established as one of the top full-service U.S.
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Stirling has already established an undoubted reputation for innovative teaching and offers its students an excellent learning environment.
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This is especially true if you introduce your spouse into an already established business partnership.
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Significantly, it allows us to utilise our extensive content and brands in an already established digital business.
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Because Dave had already established his credibility with the department managers, they were willing to take him at his word.
firmly
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Whether or not these family resemblances are accurately identified, this kind of inheritance is now firmly established by experience and science.
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Biological, social, or economic systems enter periods of punctuated equilibrium with slowly evolving but firmly established structures.
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This would ensure that they would be firmly established within heroin user networks and not peripheral to them.
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Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic.
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The magnetic bipolar nature of the features is now firmly established .
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More pertinent, the United States has firmly established itself as a power in this region.
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By the end of the twelfth century the modern distribution of settlements was firmly established .
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In view of this, one would expect the breed to have firmly established itself long ago.
well
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The habit of giving reversions had become well established by the sixteenth century.
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Across our organization the one-book-per-month practice is pretty well established .
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Barbara Lipscombe gives the impression that it is well established and almost never disturbed.
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The power of feedback to motivate improved performance is well established .
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By this time his workaholic lifestyle was well established , though always hidden behind his easy friendliness.
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Greater is the irony that twenty years earlier the open mind for this view was well established in economic circles.
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Metered dose inhalers have a well established role in the management of bronchial asthma.
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All of these craters were well established by 1965.
■ NOUN
authority
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Finally, how can we establish our authority over this department? 4.
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Witches are simply women who control symbolic power that neither men nor established religious authorities can wrench from them.
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In the past he has sought to be aggressive early on to establish his authority at the crease.
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The participating States will not tolerate or support forces that are not accountable to or controlled by their constitutionally established authorities .
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System-based rationality as constructed by information specialists, however, functioned within parameters established by command authority .
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Congress could explicitly establish such authority , or it could award jurisdiction over tobacco to another agency.
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As it was, Kim Il Sung worked successfully to establish his authority .
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We have already announced our intention to establish independent authorities for the eight national parks currently run as county council committees.
business
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Look ahead five or so years to when Lastminute.com might be an established business .
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This is especially true if you introduce your spouse into an already established business partnership.
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Significantly, it allows us to utilise our extensive content and brands in an already established digital business .
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As established , business teams were designed to be relatively self-managed.
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He became a freeman of the London Broderers' Company on 26 February 1691, soon afterwards establishing his own business .
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Unlike therapists who deal with psychological problems, coaches help their clients establish business goals and stay on track.
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The first step consists of establishing the company's business model, although this may already be fixed in established companies.
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Some directors eventually acquire enough money and experience to establish their own funeral businesses .
cause
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The Staffordshire authorities are carrying out an inquest into the accident to establish the exact cause of death.
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But 4 postmortem examinations have failed to establish the cause of his death.
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The important issue, before deciding upon remedial action, is to establish the cause of the movement.
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Connections had postponed running plans for the previously unbeaten Tenby until they had established the cause of his failure.
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Investigators are still at the scene in Woodside Road, trying to establish the cause of the blaze.
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The three year survey will establish the cause of the decline and decide whether a closed season is necessary.
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A postmortem examination failed to establish a definite cause of death and the results of further forensic tests are awaited.
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But the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case after four post mortems failed to establish a cause of death.
committee
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Companies or governments might establish committees with powers to investigate, recommend or even to make decisions.
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One of the changes was establishing a partnership committee to evaluate whether to go public.
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The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections.
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The meeting had ended in agreement to establish a permanent liaison committee .
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They established a committee to meet with DeGrazia to try to find solutions both sides could support.
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Some governing bodies have been sensitive to this danger and have established committees and structures involving teachers other than the teacher-governors.
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Already, one top Republican fund-raiser, Ohio attorney Thomas Tripp, has established such a committee .
company
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The case studies will be undertaken to establish how a bus company operates from the viewpoint of its management and organisation.
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With her attempt to establish a company at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, having failed, Lillie resumed touring.
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Wayne, the treasurer and controller, exercised power to successfully establish an offshore trading company .
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In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade.
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Children's Theatre Center director Gayle Cornelison, who established the company 25 years ago, produced and wrote the play.
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Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit, to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation.
connection
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To establish a correlation is not necessarily to establish a connection .
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But a stubborn, argumentative child may try to draw you into too many debates as you try to establish a connection .
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The achievement of a goal will serve to reinforce the behaviour and so establish a causal connection between needs and goals.
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He says the city wants to establish a citywide internet connection through the cable system.
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As the analysis developed, our attention was drawn towards the way the document attempts to establish other forms of connection .
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It simply establishes a much closer connection between the process of socialization and its symbolic consequences.
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It can take full credit for the success it has achieved, establishing a clear connection between results and core organizational beliefs.
contact
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Therefore, with a half to 1 minute still to run we should be able to establish visual contact .
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The point was to establish contact , to see whether the path through the hedge might be cleared again for passage.
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Every month or so a pair will be despatched to meet established contacts in Manchester or Liverpool.
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He established contacts with townspeople and religious leaders that would be invaluable to him in his later research.
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He was particularly keen to establish contacts between the college and what was happening elsewhere in post-war Britain.
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For lawyers it is especially important to establish contact with colleagues in other member states.
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Peter has established all the necessary contacts and made preliminary negotiations to obtain these aircraft.
council
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These are established through national joint councils , consisting of representatives of employers and employees, supplemented by local variations and agreements.
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Two of the many ways that cities organized themselves were to establish ruling councils and to issue coins.
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We accept that the Minister has honoured his commitment; he has brought forward powers to establish a funding council .
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The Monday open market at Hemlington was established by the council at the suggestion of residents.
fact
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A statement must be obtained from the Insured to establish the facts and to avoid subsequent dispute as to the circumstances.
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It was studiously careful not to speculate beyond the established facts .
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The guilt is established by proof of facts .
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It took Doyle a moment to establish that fact .
law
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Pardons initiated by the White House customarily are granted by presidents outside the regular procedures established by law .
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Carnot established the second law of thermodynamics; demonstrated the wave nature of light.
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Others were established under the Poor Law .
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Finally we establish the so-called laws of exponents for positive integral powers.
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Policy making is the process by which the state establishes laws , policy decisions, and value allocations. 7.
link
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At the same time he established important links with the continental book trade.
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Even if such reports were accurate, these phenomena have no established link with the onset of earthquakes.
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The Profitboss has a simple way of establishing the contribution link to profit.
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Many Northern Ireland companies already have well established exporting links .
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Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour.
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Take each item and establish a contribution link to profit.
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Its mission is to establish effective links between education and business.
market
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When only a few people are involved, a system of property rights may establish the missing market .
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The terms of the struggle were established by the market .
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Why don't private individuals establish the missing market through a system of bribes or compensation?
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For this to happen, they have to begin to establish a market presence now.
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However, even in these cases it will probably not be necessary to establish the market value immediately.
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That last requirement could best be met by establishing a large enough market to warrant actual manufacture in the Far East.
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However, in more established markets , such mid-sized firms are being squeezed out.
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These are elements in marketing that help to establish the company's market share and competitive performance.
network
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With little official funding or backing, the team went ahead to establish just such a network .
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Yet I was able to establish a network of valuable career contacts.
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This would ensure that they would be firmly established within heroin user networks and not peripheral to them.
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In this way you may be able to establish another network that could pay off handsomely.
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In the long-term, the centre aims to establish a network for the exchange and distribution of news programmes and documentaries.
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Cable companies are cooperating to establish fiber networks involving different operators so that they can compete with the telephone companies.
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Breeders have established their own intelligence network in a bid to combat the crime.
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For many, establishing a network of informal support can help.
order
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We can, however, establish the correct order of magnitude from a number of sources.
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The character who can maintain such an idea is a formidable opponent to established order .
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This disjunctive, unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them.
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The reasons for doing so, he felt, are to establish order and to protect private property.
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Once the component parts have been established , their order in terms of time-scale can be decided.
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Most of those words are cynical, humorous and often subversive to the established order .
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Conservatism may represent the attempt to establish some continuity and order in these precarious circumstances.
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Among those who say that Maciel abused them are two men who helped to establish the order in the United States.
pattern
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If a pattern of anticipation is to be disrupted, it must first be established .
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Regardless of your preference you should try to establish a pattern .
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It's now an established pattern .
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Premium fares were charged on these cars, establishing a pattern which is maintained to this day.
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And what are the molecular processes involved in establishing that new pattern ?
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This should include establishing a regular pattern of breathing which will, of course, make that relaxation even deeper.
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They establish a conventional pattern and timescale for basic interlocutory stages in personal injury litigation.
principle
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They can do this by establishing clear guiding principles against which all actions need to be evaluated.
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Quintilian was one who credited Zeuxis with having established painterly principles of light and shade.
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The convention establishes the principle that nothing that is harmful to human health and marine life can be dumped at sea.
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In resolving these conflicts, the courts establish legal principles that apply to similar cases.
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The research nurses are establishing the principle that the rigid compartments of the medical profession are not as watertight as they appear.
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Although not intransigent, Wash was clearly uneasy about the specific link with Bedfordshire as the precedent to establish a principle .
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As some observers noted, the new regulation establishes the principle that environmental concerns take precedence over commercial arguments.
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It will also seek to establish any general principles connected with successful schemes of joint consultation.
relationship
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Having established the phasor relationship between the fundamental components of phase voltage and current, the pull-out torque can be found directly.
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They also need tact, good judgment, and the ability to establish effective personal relationships to oversee staff.
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Wrangham found that by following chimpanzees daily, he could establish the ranging relationships of the animals.
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Thus was established a symbiotic relationship between the power companies and the chemical indus-try.
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Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London.
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Drift-netting is another example of our inability as humans to establish a sustainable relationship with the planet.
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The father, who had established a stable relationship with another woman, wanted the children to live with him.
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Member of the multidisciplinary team Primary nurses aim to establish an emotionally therapeutic relationship with their patients based on trust and confidence.
reputation
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Yet he had somehow established a reputation in political circles as something out of the ordinary.
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To have work bought by one of the bigger private collectors could establish reputations , as could publication or exhibition abroad.
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Above all the farm worker could establish his reputation as a skilled and knowledgeable craftsman among his fellow workers.
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Stirling has already established an undoubted reputation for innovative teaching and offers its students an excellent learning environment.
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Although he never published the systematic economic treatise which might have established his reputation , Barton's closely argued pamphlets were influential.
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He quickly established its critical reputation and the Institute became the focal point of specialist dissent from the official line.
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Before the match the Aussies had established such a reputation that people began to believe they were unbeatable.
rule
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Many families experience the problems of squabbles between siblings and learn to establish rules for mediating a problem.
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It has failed to establish the rule of law, allowing gangsters and militants to intimidate at will.
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This was supposed to be her final victory over him, supposed to establish her rule once and for all.
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Ground rules Always establish good ground rules at the beginning of each session.
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The 18-year-old king moved quickly to establish rule under his personal control.
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The World Trade Organisation establishes rules governing trade, why can't we have something similar for finance?
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Government is important because it can and should establish and enforce rules of conduct and protect property rights.
standard
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The accord tried to establish standards to protect basic rights even when a government declared a state of emergency.
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These standards have been adopted by many states, counties, and cities; others have established their own standards.
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Congress ought to establish minimum standards for licensing of handgun owners and registration of handguns.
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The group is working to establish national crime lab standards .
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Values: these define what is seen as success by the organisation and establish standards of achievement within the organisation.
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The law calls for the government to establish programming standards unless the industry devises its own after one year.
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Thus the need for the Archivist to establish selection standards .
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Products graded in accordance with established standards bear the appropriate grade marks.
system
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That the court is entitled to establish its own classification system has been seen already.
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But moving towards social justice means also establishing a just system .
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Various arrangements were tried when Gorbachev established a presidential system in the late 1980s.
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Buddha established his belief system built around the principles of self-restraint and caring for the poor.
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Having established this knowledge a system of ideas has been formulated for intervening and hence preventing the disease or problem.
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Take for example, the matrix structure, what it does is establish an adversary system , thereby institutionalizing organizational conflict.
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Young magistrates formed a union and voted to establish an independent judicial system .
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Congress later established a system for appointing investigators independent of such influence and beyond retaliation.
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help
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We agree that it is the best way to help those countries to establish sound democracies and a sound economy.
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The new guarantee is designed to help farmers establish a base farming income, needed to secure agricultural loans.
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The recordings would have helped to establish the role played by the police.
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Thus the recognition of values helps health practitioners establish priorities and hierarchies of importance among needs and goals.
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It could, indeed, help to establish the kind of ethos which might make recourse to legal remedies unnecessary.
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We want the people down here to name it, to help us get established .
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Indeed, it was the pressure from this large and disadvantaged constituency that helped to establish vernacular literary education.
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Among those who say that Maciel abused them are two men who helped to establish the order in the United States.
need
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Further north they may need some protection to establish and thrive.
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Despite some good acting from the ensemble cast, the characters slip into the stereotypes needed to establish the political debate.
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Through trial and error you need to establish what times suit you best and then keep to them.
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Time and experience were needed to establish new working practices.
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You will need to establish rapport quickly, so that they can trust you.
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First of all she needed to firmly establish the connections.
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Parents may then need help in establishing the setting cues associated with eating.
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Repeated regular practice may be needed to establish this awareness.
seek
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It will also seek to establish any general principles connected with successful schemes of joint consultation.
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Domain name registration for customers seeking to establish a Web address.
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A notional/functional approach essentially seeks to establish correlations between systemic and schematic elements.
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The project will seek to establish how and with what consequences more formal structures of employment were created.
try
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My present purpose is to try to establish the reasons.
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Western science got it wrong in many crucial respects, as a few prophetic members of that tradition tried to establish .
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I forget which you're trying to establish .
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Back then, we tried to establish the run.
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Air accident investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash.
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Various arrangements were tried when Gorbachev established a presidential system in the late 1980s.
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Comparison can also be important when the researcher is trying to establish what is not an independent variable.
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A number of experiments have been set up to try to establish a satisfactory method of appraisal.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
established church/religion
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Carroll did not choose to keep a low profile but spoke up on many issues, often against the officially established religion.
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During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London.
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His rebellion began quietly enough in a dispute over whether or not to pay taxes for established religion.
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Naturally most of the more established churches were embarrassed and angered by the unseemly goings on.
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That same light revealed the corruption of the established Church.
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The only result of clerical opposition was that the established Church once again forfeited its chance to control developments.
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The representatives from seventeen national parties at the Paris conference were quite plainly non-attenders in the established church of politics.
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Therefore, it is certainly more comfortable to remain in the security of stable established church life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A committee hopes to establish a new drug policy by the end of the month.
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Investigators have not established a reason for the attack.
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It was quickly established that several members of the crew had been negligent.
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Matt hoped to establish a caring relationship with Sandy.
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Most of the money will be used to establish local industries and mobilize the work-force.
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The company was established in 1899.
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The university was established in 1922.
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They are carrying out research to establish exactly why so many species of songbird are disappearing.
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We haven't yet established the cause of the accident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another condition requires Harvard to establish a reserve account to make sure that the insurer can pay outstanding medical bills.
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Be positive and determined, and establish disciplined routines.
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Citing mathematical probabilities clearly does not establish the nonexistence of extraterrestrial being.
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For information on how to establish such a scheme write to Friends of the Earth, enclosing an s.a.e.
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In contrast to other trichostrongyles hypobiosis occurs at the L3 stage although their role in outbreaks of disease has not been established.
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Shortly after the rampage, the railroad established a victims fund that raised $ 519, 397.
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The power of feedback to motivate improved performance is well established.