I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broad/general category
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Our range of programmes come into three broad categories.
a broad/general outline (= the main ideas or parts of something rather than all the details )
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The report gives only a broad outline of the company's performance.
a broad/general overview (= concerning the main ideas or parts rather than all the details )
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This chapter gives a broad overview of accounting practices in the UK.
a common/general/widespread assumption
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There’s a common assumption that science is more difficult than other subjects.
a general context
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This problem is occurring within a general context of economic difficulty.
a general description (= not detailed )
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He started by giving us a general description of the manufacturing process.
a general gloom (= when many people feel there is not much hope )
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Amid the general gloom, there are some positive signs.
a general improvement
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There has been a general improvement in the standard of living.
a general inquiry
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There is a need for a general inquiry into the train company’s safety standards.
a general meeting especially BrE (= that anyone, or anyone in a particular organization, can go to )
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The annual general meeting of the rugby club was held last night.
a general point
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I’d like to make one further general point.
a general shortage (= a shortage of lots of different kinds of things or people )
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There was a general shortage of skilled workers.
a general strike (= when workers from most industries strike )
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They threatened to call a general strike.
a general trend (= one followed by most people or happening in most places )
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There was a general trend towards marriage at a younger age.
a general/broad approach
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Many governments have pursued this general approach to economic policy.
a general/broad concept
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The book begins with some general historical concepts.
a general/broad principle
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He explained the general principles of the constitution.
a general/national election (= one in which the whole country votes to elect a government )
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Labour’s victory in the general election gave them a huge majority.
a general/overall/broad assessment (= that covers the main features or parts of something, not the details )
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The doctor must carry out a general assessment of the patient’s health.
an overall/general picture
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The study is intended to provide an overall picture of political activity in the nation.
attorney general
five star general
four-star general
general anaesthetic (= one that makes you completely unconscious )
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You will need to have a general anaesthetic .
general anaesthetic
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I had the operation done under general anaesthetic.
general approval (= from most people )
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McGill’s views did not meet with general approval.
general confusion
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There was general confusion about the effects of the new law.
general consensus
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Most decisions are reached by general consensus.
general counsel
general delivery
general dogsbody
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I spent the summer helping out as a general dogsbody .
general election campaign
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during the 1987 general election campaign
general election
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during the 1987 general election campaign
general fitness
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Swimming is good for your mobility and general fitness.
general headquarters
general health (= the health of your whole body rather than a particular part )
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A balanced diet will improve your general health.
general knowledge quiz
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a general knowledge quiz
general knowledge (= knowledge about a lot of different subjects )
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The questions are intended to test your general knowledge.
general knowledge
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a general knowledge quiz
general manager
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the general manager of Chevrolet
general practice
general practitioner
general public
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health education aimed at the general public
general staff
general store
general strike
general tenor
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the general tenor of her speech
general/popular/widespread expectations (= shared by a lot of people )
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The general expectation was for married couples to have children.
hold...general election (= have a general election )
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an attempt to persuade the government to hold a general election
in a general/broad sense
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In a general sense, a rapid rate of technological change creates uncertainty.
in the general direction of sth (= approximately where something is )
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He pointed in the general direction of the village.
major general
maternity/general/geriatric etc ward (= a ward for people with a particular medical condition )
secretary general
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the UN Secretary General
solicitor general
the general attitude
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His general attitude to our situation was unsympathetic.
the general mood (= the mood of a group of people )
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One soldier expressed the general mood of fear and failure in a letter home.
the general opinion (= the opinion that most people have about something )
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The general opinion seems to be that the government has made a mess of the war.
the general pattern
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The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility.
the general population
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Ethnic minorities suffer more than the general population.
the general public
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The meeting will be open to the general public .
the general view (= what most people think )
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The general view was that he had done well.
the general/overall appearance
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The second phase of the project is to improve the town’s overall appearance.
the overall/general impression
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The general impression was of a very efficiently run company.
the overall/general/broad aim (= that concerns the main aim rather than all the details )
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The overall aim of the project is to encourage young people to stay in higher education.
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Guided by the general aim of the project, we aimed to reach a number of key objectives.
widespread/wide/general support
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There is widespread support for the Government’s proposal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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The first part of this is a more general political question which can not be covered fully in an economics text.
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Construction of an appropriate machine shows that phlogiston is but one form of that more general thing, energy.
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They are not intended to serve as illustrations of something more general .
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For those not afraid of Pythagoras, I 113 could write down a more general formula.
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Some of the things I write are technical and aimed mostly at philosophers, and other things are much more general .
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A more general consideration also motivates us to include semantics in the grammar of a language.
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A more general course in Business Studies, which includes some Law, may be better for your career.
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By the 80s it had become more general in the engineering industry.
■ NOUN
agreement
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There is general agreement that copyright is a good idea.
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There is a general agreement of how it came apart.
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However, it is possible to identify a few fairly distinct elements upon which there was general agreement .
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All but a few expressed general agreement with government actions.
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One of the problems, though, is that there is no general agreement on what these characteristics should be.
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Today there is general agreement that ozone is destroyed by chlorine.
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Internal problems Inevitably achieving general agreement on market completion involved a delicate balancing of national interests.
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Data on the phospholipid composition in gastric mucosa differ, but there is general agreement on the predominance of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine.
area
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Convenient: Distribution should not be confined to making materials available in the general area of use.
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I lined up on the general area and made a gentle descent into the darkness.
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It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed.
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He loves them when no one is in the general area .
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Also, assess the general area and facilities.
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We will discuss each general area that can influence attention, beginning with comprehending sensations.
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This is not surprising, if both reflect memories of an actual event in the same general area .
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They spent nine months developing a set of 98 goals in 12 general areas .
consensus
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The general consensus is that few horses should be inconvenienced by the ground.
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The general consensus is the show was a complete snooze, a letdown that garnered huge ratings and little else.
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Most decisions are reached by general consensus with a minimum of formal voting. 7.
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I think there is general consensus to change the welfare system; and that abuses should not be tolerated.
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There is a general consensus that psychological processes are a function of the whole brain, not of its constituent parts.
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In recent years, however, a general consensus has been reached that movies and television must have some influence on behavior.
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But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal, Derry and Down.
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The general consensus is that worker influence on these boards has been limited.
counsel
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Simmons &038; Simmons energy partner Charles Bankes is set to become Ofgem's first general counsel under a two-year secondment.
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Mr McLaughlin, 44 years old, was senior vice president, general counsel and secretary.
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Robert Slaughter, the association's general counsel , said this lawsuit will continue.
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John Liftin, Kidder general counsel , declined to comment.
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Such charges have no basis in fact, according to John H.. Carley, Avis' general counsel .
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But Allstate general counsel Robert Pike said agents were given a budget based on performance.
direction
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Governors are responsible for the ethos and general direction of the school.
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When I threw a half-hearted punch in his general direction , he knocked me down.
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As the general direction of O'Neill's policies became clear, conservative Protestants began to organize against him.
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Keoni began to head north-west, in the general direction of Hsu Fu.
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Then one of the men shouted something, waving his arms in the general direction of the forest.
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We sit down and talk about what has to be done, the general direction we want to go in.
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It wasn't a bad one and it plunged wholeheartedly in the general direction of the board.
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We will fire him a great distance, in the general direction of a wall in which two slots are cut.
election
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The party, which is part of the national coalition government, won 29 % in last year's general election .
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A further general election in October of the same year gave him a majority of three.
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The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable.
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Their policy is to try to avoid making a decision this side of the general election .
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Standing up to voters in the run-up to the general election is another matter.
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The general election was now only a few months away.
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The general election will be the opportunity for which we have waited.
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The call, the first by any network, created the false impression that Bush had won the general election .
hospital
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I am advised that there were no serious repercussions for any patient at Sunderland general hospital last year.
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For many patients, acute care came in county or city general hospitals where patients with contagious diseases were sent.
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The local district general hospital is the only possibility.
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We need now to transfer this quality of understanding of human need to general hospitals .
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He's being treated for a punctured lung at the town's general hospital .
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In others, the general hospital psychiatric service will be able to provide aftercare, including where necessary, family therapy.
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The district general hospital in Barnsley, south Yorkshire called for such volunteers when 100 staff went sick.
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Setting - Clinical investigation unit of teaching hospital recruiting from diabetes clinics of five teaching hospitals and one district general hospital.
idea
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Of course, many details could be added to this simple description, but the account offered does capture the general idea .
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This image then supports the general idea of the duality found throughout all of nature.
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Jack has got some great general idea .
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But I got the general idea .
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It never seemed to occur to him that a general idea might be an entirely different sort of thing from an image.
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The general idea is that the string is embedded in the program or operating system.
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Again, this conclusion runs counter to the general idea of class differences in women's domesticity.
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I know that's the general idea of an endowment mortgage.
impression
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We will remember a general impression , but nothing definite.
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Most of us can evaluate their performances only on the basis of a general impression and questionable memory.
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The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best, but they would give the general impression .
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He likes the general impression it makes.
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The general impression has been that major capital schemes not requiring Treasury approval have been poorly appraised.
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They give a good general impression of the size of the figures involved in a clear visual form.
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It is inadequate and misleading to rely on general impressions in such churches.
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The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates, in spite of certain difficulties, enjoy their work.
interest
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It adds, it will be absorbing for all those with a general interest in the subject.
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A worse fate has befallen the general interest , mass circulation magazines, once the dominant national media.
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Each one of perhaps a group of four should prepare a brief summary of an article of general interest .
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A few points of general interest might usefully be restated here.
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Cuttings of general interest can be stored under different categories in box files.
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As a foreigner and a teacher, I was the object of general interest and respect.
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The first is the academic with a general interest in stylistic theory and practice.
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Two results of general interest emerge from this preliminary analysis.
knowledge
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Different titles in the series look at general knowledge , science, space adventure and dinosaurs.
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There are three categories: general knowledge , entertainment and sports.
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It has no general knowledge source to aid the process of disambiguation.
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He indicated that he simply relied on his own general knowledge .
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Good question for a general knowledge quiz.
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He had an excellent vocabulary and a good fund of general knowledge .
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If you have not time to acquire such general knowledge in a field then you hire some one who has.
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Even while general knowledge of the virus advances, he said, many clergy are still in the dark.
level
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Knock in a series of pegs at regular intervals to obtain an overall general level .
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If the general level of interest rates rises after issue, then the market price of the bond will fall.
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In other words, general levels of income inequality have a positive effect on the incidence of political violence.
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Her skills were about average for a child her age, but they were far below her general level of intelligence.
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Rates will vary from time to time in line with the general level of interest rates.
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Interest rates may vary from time to time in line with the general level of interest rates.
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Parents and employers are likely to want a fairly general level of information without too much detail.
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Survey questions pitched at a general level may elicit what respondents regard as socially approved values.
manager
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George Hamlyn, 47, has been appointed general manager of Minories' Peugeot dealership at Stockton.
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Not long after expressing interest, general manager Dan Duquette decided he has other priorities.
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Calls to assistant general manager Mike Port came at a bad time.
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But Edward Mertz, the division's general manager , predicts an 8% share by the mid-1990s.
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He joined Hearst in 1984 as general manager of the Baltimore radio properties.
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Given the commitment of general managers , resources will be found and expertise deployed where it is wanted by the managers.
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From there, it was a short leap to the next pernicious development, thinking like a general manager .
meeting
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These rights may be waived by the shareholders at a general meeting so that the new capital may be raised by means of a placing.
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The newcomer is one election at the annual general meeting of members in the Mourneview Park social club tomorrow night.
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However, the rights of any member or of the auditors to insist on a general meeting are entrenched by section 253.
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The annual general meeting of the city council then continued, chaired by the new mayor.
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A general meeting was called for December 1990 when a new constitution was to be adopted.
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The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog, Fimbra, may well fail to materialise.
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This is supposed to be a stag party, not an annual general meeting .
population
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Its incidence in the general population is not clearly established, but it is unlikely to be negligible.
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For the general population , beta carotene is not a magic bullet.
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Only 4 percent of the general population are black, but nearly one-third of the convicted and imprisoned population are black.
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Sure, there are people using illegal substances in the Olympics, just as there are those among the general population .
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Teachers are considered the experts in education and, until the current generation, were much better educated than the general population .
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Then, like Pritikin, Ornish extended his valuable but limited observations to the general population .
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Results have shown very low levels of infection amongst the general population , as was to be expected.
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Of those available for adoption, 40 percent are black, although blacks represent only about 13 percent of the general population .
practice
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Preventative medicine should be practised in every general practice surgery in the country.
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Gordon Horobin and Maureen Cain both address aspects of general practice .
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The model that we have developed is to attach students in pairs to a general practice tutor in a teaching practice.
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The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals.
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From the general practice side this matter is being urgently discussed with both the health board and management executive.
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She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills.
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We recommend the following guidelines for antibiotic treatment of acne in both hospital and general practice .
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Could it be that there are many doctors not working because even in general practice part time opportunities are sparse?
practitioner
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In its first phase, it allows intermediaries, such as DHAs and general practitioners to make the purchases.
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In Grampian, 80 percent. of general practitioners gave it the thumbs down.
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I am making the extension because of the pressure from general practitioners who have asked me to extend the list size.
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In 1991/92 questionnaires were sent to the general practitioners .
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In-depth, tape-recorded interviews will be carried out with patients and their general practitioners .
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Every family health services authority should enter into discussions with its general practitioners to establish guidelines for the employment of counsellors.
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If no further contact can be made the general practitioner should be informed.
principle
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Finally, there are two general principles of delegation that have certainly stood the test of time.
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Still, some general principles apply.
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Contrary to the general principles of distribution certain products may have to be restricted to named users who have special training.
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In this chapter, some general information is organized and summarized to formulate some general principles for meal managers.
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Over the last 40 years, the courts have developed general principles of judicial review.
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Not every learning challenge can have exciting jackpots but the general principle applies.
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There is a general principle that a person can not complain of that which he has consented to.
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She is not just waiting for the pace to pick up on general principles .
public
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The Design centre finally failed because it became too elitist and alienated the general public .
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Riots and Disorder To the general public , the most noticeable symptom of the penal crisis is of course the prison riot.
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To the general public the result of all this integrated activity has been an enormous improvement in the standard of living.
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These are vexed questions that involve the whole community in Western societies: scientists, professionals, and the general public .
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The Order also protects the general public from work dangers.
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In the last analysis, egalitarian policies will only succeed if they are desired and supported by the general public .
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The Fire Precautions Act 1971 was passed in order to improve fire safety standards at premises frequented by the general public .
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Even before the compact disc was finally launched to the general public , however, Karajan was making yet another move.
purpose
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His general purpose was to humanize prison conditions and to provide prisoners with opportunities for personal reformation.
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Since the budgets of all governmental agencies have the same general purpose , certain similarities exist in their forms.
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Real-time performance is the highest available from general purpose systems, claims the company.
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Everything was housed in general purpose tents.
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Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language, it is strongly biassed towards visual representation.
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There are currently three major classes of general purpose chips.
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Princeton raised $ 36.8m last year in individual donations for general purposes .
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Fig 1: Three types of crampon points - a curved lobster claw b general purpose c straight lobster claw.
rule
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But as a general rule it can happen at any age and time.
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This question was raised by some Amish children in Wisconsin, and the Supreme Court provided some exceptions to this general rule .
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The general rule , as above stated, seems on principle just.
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This exception to the general rule that perks are taxable is the most important exception.
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As a general rule you should avoid unintentionally offending friends or potential friends, but instead flatter or compliment them.
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As a general rule , firms should strive to match their loan maturities with their asset maturities.
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It is clear that one can not give a general rule .
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The importance of the thirty-day exception to the general rule becomes more apparent once you hear the rest of the general rule.
secretary
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Peter Phillips was elected as general secretary .
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Mengistu is general secretary of the party, which is governed by an 11-member political bureau.
sense
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Violent behaviour, in the most general sense , can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society.
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A general sense of impunity has added greatly to this situation.
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In a general sense this is probably always true but it need not be true in a detailed sense.
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Do you have enough time and feel a general sense of satisfaction at the end of each day?
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The general sense of well-being in life is lost.
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Yet a few rare instances provide us with at least a general sense of the magnitude of this particular organizational cost.
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To ignore those who live at home is unacceptable; it runs counter to a general sense of social responsibility.
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In a general sense , of course, racism hurt Handy and his counterparts, but so did chaotic distribution.
staff
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Three days previously he had abolished the post of chief of general staff , held by Vice-Adml.
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Yet the general staff of overseers is small, only about 40 employees, supplemented by local officials in 94 judicial districts.
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Valery Manilov, deputy chief of the general staff .
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Anatoly Kvashnin, chief of the general staff , to cut spending on the nuclear arsenal.
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Its rear legs have joined the general staff , who are all in discussion with their backs towards me.
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The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled, but no more than that.
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It had no permanent general staff .
store
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The old general store had gone but the shade thorn tree was still there, bewildered by its surround of concrete pavement.
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In addition, picnic supplies can be purchased at general stores within the park.
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Upon arrival, they are told that they must buy all their daily supplies at an on-site general store .
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It marked a return to the general store of frontier days.
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Other amenities include a post office and general store , and a free house, the Bricklayers' Arms.
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It has a restaurant and a tiny general store with overpriced merchandise.
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Teen-agers and young men lounge on park benches or gather around video games inside a general store .
strike
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When the bluff failed, it is hardly surprising that no-one seriously considered attempting to implement the general strike against war.
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Timisoara and Arad were reported to be on a general strike .
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With output recovering, the prime minister, Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity's threat to call a general strike .
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A general strike , however, organized on June 19 by the National Confederation Union, attracted little support.
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Union leaders denied government allegations that the general strike had been time to coincide with Herrera's rebellion.
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The Socialist response was a general strike .
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Rioters set Chittagong aflame and an effective general strike paralyzed the whole country.
term
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These will be stated in general terms for the whole allocation.
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Until now administration officials have spoken only in very general terms about the possible design, timetable and cost of missile defenses.
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Rather than talking in general terms about the desirability of renewal, he began to talk in concrete terms of a timetable.
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Mike would never talk about her, except in the most general terms .
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In general terms , inflation accounting methods have been concerned with ensuring that capital is being maintained in economic terms.
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In the most general terms , evolution is a tight web and ecology a loose one.
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In general terms , tax has been largely abolished on most life-time gifts, provided certain important conditions are met.
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In general terms , it is not difficult to see why this happened.
theory
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In Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932 the House of Lords shaped a general theory of manufacturer's liability in tort for products.
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The general theory of invariants is thus a part of the theory of constraints.
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Now the general theory of relativity will be developed formally using tensors.
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Easton was searching for an analytic concept that would facilitate the development of a general theory of politics.
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Freud himself began to develop a general theory of unconscious emotional processes in human societies.
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These suggest a new general theory , accounting for economic, religious and ideological groups as well as states and nations.
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Without an advocacy stage few general theories in biology would ever have arisen.
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This was achieved by Einstein's general theory of relativity, which was formulated in 1915.
trend
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Be brief because the answers are needed only to explore general trends at this stage.
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While the general trend for growing plants is increasing, there is some variation about each current level.
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However, there was absolutely no doubt about the general trend .
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But I can give you some idea of general trends in your life.
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That is not evidence of a general trend .
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Nevertheless the general trend indicated is of a decrease in temperature.
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These general trends once again disguise some interesting regional and local variations in results.
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Coupled with this general trend , Belladonna's feather-headed approach to the music began to grate with the other members.
view
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But from a general view the status of the junior adventure story is unassailable.
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But this was not the general view .
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It is not the general view of the small locally-based businesses in the Enterprise Zone.
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The general view was that yes, women are seen as females first and musicians second.
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In contrast, the general view is that disposing of high-level waste must involve isolation and containment.
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Choose a sequence which opens with a general view of the setting.
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Again in Speyside there was some disagreement with the general view , with half choosing the late time as an option.
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In another fundamental respect, Marx's general view is also well borne out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on (general) release
for general/public/private etc consumption
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But these things aren't for public consumption .
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Far from it, what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately.
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Most of its contents was judged too personal-and possibly too politically sensitive-for public consumption .
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This Government talks tough for public consumption but has no stomach for action.
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Those on the right endorse the first half of the argument but not the second, at least for public consumption .
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When the media found out, his private exercise of his personal beliefs became a subject for public consumption .
in general/practical/financial etc terms
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A joint communiqué issued after the meetings was couched in general terms and did not refer to the cessation of hostilities.
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I can understand why the whole phlogiston business would have been thought less than important in practical terms .
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Rather than talking in general terms about the desirability of renewal, he began to talk in concrete terms of a timetable.
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These will be stated in general terms for the whole allocation.
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They are, in practical terms , the experts.
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They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well.
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Those aspects of the business not capable of being expressed in financial terms may have an important effect on its success.
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Yet in intellectual and to some extent in practical terms her attitudes were overwhelmingly conservative.
lieutenant colonel/general/Governor etc
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He found the lieutenant colonel, although only touching fifty, almost impossibly grand.
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He had been a lieutenant colonel in public relations in Baltimore.
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He landed at night, and was met at base ops by a lieutenant colonel.
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He retired, still a lieutenant general, in 1972.
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One 12-year-old boy arrived, claiming to be a lieutenant colonel.
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She is a nice enough lady whose husband is a lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army, retired.
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Short was a three-star lieutenant general commanding the Army in Hawaii.
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Three years as a legislative liaison, six years in the state senate, four tedious years as lieutenant governor.
the common/general good
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He was the mandatory of his people, the trustee of the general good .
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Surely that is to the general good .
the general public
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Organizers of the president's funeral plan a large ceremony for the general public, and a small, private affair for his family.
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She is a poet who is admired by other poets but not well-known to the general public.
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Very little official information is given to the general public.
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We want the committee to include at least five members of the general public.
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Does he accept that the general public will not mind in the least paying to see these magnificent treasures?
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Each is covered almost immediately and, so far as the general public is concerned, left virtually without trace.
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Federman said this gender difference is consistent with that in the general public.
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No Press appeals were made for assistance from the general public.
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The symbol gets the same message across to your existing employees, to the business community and to the general public.
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They are not responsible to the general public.
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This task it has admirably fulfilled, becoming very popular with the general public.
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We have made great strides in de-emphasising the beer parties, but not many people in the general public have noticed.
the general staff
the usual/normal/general run of sth
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Anything of quality was exciting in those days, for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible.
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Credit taken by the general run of consumers - those not in an extremity of financial need - was not specially regulated.
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In the normal run of things I would have had no business there, no access.
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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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It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers.
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This, however, was not the normal run of things.
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What should we do when confronted with claims which are conspicuously at odds with the general run of experience?
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the general manager
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The course is called 'A General Introduction to Computing'.
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There has been a general decline in educational standards.
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This general description of the countryside oversimplifies what is really a very complicated pattern of soils and climate.
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This course is a general introduction to banking and finance.
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This guidebook will give you a good general idea of the city.
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Twenty years ago, most children got a good general education in public schools.
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Your voice reveals much about your general health.
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A general obligation bond is repaid through property taxes.
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Because of its special mechanism of action, there is no general cross resistance between this drug and antibiotics in other substance classes.
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But, throughout his essay, his use of language suggests that he is making more general claims.
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It may also be asked to consider general staffing matters.
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Perhaps, after all, a general election is only the sublimation of a darned good riot.
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We have no general checks even on preserving our resource base.
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Wilson's position makes sense of a great deal in the history of general biological theory before and since 1900.
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deputy
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Gen Larry G.. Smith, who was on track to become the deputy inspector general of the Army.
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Smith's appointment as deputy inspector general never took effect.
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A deputy attorney general sat ready to protect the interests of the State of California.
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Almanzo is a deputy attorney general in Oakland.
great
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Napoleon, the greatest of all generals , dismissed and disgraced Admiral Bruix when he questioned an order to sail his fleet.
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His edge was none too great for a general who planned to attack a heavily fortified position.
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The Empire's greatest general and the mightiest Orc Warlord of the age fell upon each other with the fury of ancient enemies.
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My son Hannibal will be a great general , because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey...
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Where the father had been a great general , the son was rash and impetuous.
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Trinity's makeshift pack were no match for Halifax's big six and Bishop was a great general behind them.
major
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Chennault had become a major general by this time, and had his own independent military command, the Fourteenth Air Force.
new
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The abrasive new general brushed aside Stirling's request and proceeded to give him a lecture.
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The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March.
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The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate's previous work.
retired
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These are retired generals , not serving ones.
senior
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His move led to the resignation of his defence minister and many senior generals .
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army
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Another 76 other police and troops, including an army general , were absolved by the military court after a 15-week trial.
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The shelling started despite promises by Yugoslav army generals not to attack.
attorney
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We have an attorney general who was a leading opponent of gun control in the Senate.
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This week, company officials met with representatives of the attorneys generals of 20 states to discuss the problems.
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The Washington state attorney general had not decided whether to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
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Meanwhile, attorneys general from across the United States threatened lawsuits for failure to deliver promised services.
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He simply notified the attorney general of a threat to the public peace and asked him to enforce federal law.
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Afterward, he was elected Arkansas attorney general and served as governor for 10 years before becoming president.
brigadier
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In November 1917 he was made a brigadier general in command of a brigade of 3,000 men.
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A brigadier general has been put in charge; dozens of police commanders have been replaced by military officers.
director
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The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March.
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The restructured department involves the promotion of former commercial director Jamie Robertson-Macleod to director general .
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The London Society, in its hard-hitting commentary, also calls for a director general .
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Also acting against Britain's interests is that the previous director general before Quistgaard hailed from these isles.
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The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate's previous work.
inspector
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The inspector general of police declared the pastoral letter seditious and possession of it a crime.
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Toward the mid-1970s, the Army inspector general took notice of the situation and began questioning procurement officials.
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Gen Larry G.. Smith, who was on track to become the deputy inspector general of the Army.
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Smith's appointment as deputy inspector general never took effect.
manager
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Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette got his closer Monday.
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Assistant general manager Mike Port had much to do with the computation of that figure.
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Sharks general manager Dean Lombardi said.
secretary
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The change in the secretary general is likely to stand her in good stead with committee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.
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include
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Its headquarters staff includes six generals , headed by its controversial commander, General Maxwell Thurman.
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Five police officers, including a general , are on trial for accepting the alleged bribes from Fininvest.
retire
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Some retired generals have voiced doubts, as have active-duty officers.
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Although an immediate ban on all anti-personnel mines was endorsed by 15 retired generals , including Gen.
rule
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Often they are treated better than the more than 1 million humans subjected to the same fate by the ruling generals .
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But as it was, when the generals entered they had it all their own presumptuous way.
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He simply notified the attorney general of a threat to the public peace and asked him to enforce federal law.
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His edge was none too great for a general who planned to attack a heavily fortified position.
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I was a general at the head of an army, and the objectives were clearly defined.
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In general , Forbes opposes any law that raises the cost of doing business.
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The Democratic attorney general of Tennessee told Shipley to do what he thought right, and Shipley had gotten his notes together.
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The truth may be that Pyongyang's generals were unwilling to deliver the goods to the Pentagon's generals.
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This does not mean he can get Colin Powell; the general seems to have ruled himself out of the running.