GROUP

Meaning of GROUP in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a chain/group of islands

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Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.

a community group

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Community groups do not have enough say over what is built in their neighbourhoods.

a conservation group (= a group of people who support or work for conservation )

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the growing number of conservation groups

a consumer group (= an organization that protects consumers’ rights )

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There have been complaints from consumer groups about the high prices charged by some companies.

a group booking/block booking (= a booking for a large number of seats, rooms etc )

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There's a 20% discount for group bookings.

a group email (= one sent to several people at the same time )

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Those group emails telling you who is leaving and joining the company are so boring.

a group of individuals

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We need to perform as a team rather than a group of individuals.

a group/party of tourists

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The guide was talking to a party of tourists.

a leisure group (= a group of companies in the leisure industry )

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The leisure group reported record profits last year.

a minority group

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It’s ridiculous to refer to women as a minority group.

a protest group/movement

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Students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike.

a resistance group

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The resistance groups are well armed.

a team/group/project etc leader

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Ask your team leader for advice.

a terrorist group/organization

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No terrorist group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

a voluntary organization/group/body/agency

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The day care scheme was run by a voluntary organization.

ad hoc committee/group etc

age group

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a book for children in the 12–14 age group

an ability group (= a group that students are taught in, based on their level of ability )

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Children are divided into different ability groups.

an age group/bracket/range

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Men in the 50–65 age group are most at risk from heart disease.

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The school takes in children from the seven to eleven age range.

an environmental group

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a campaign by environmental groups to protect the Antarctic

an ethnic group

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People of Ukrainian descent are Canada’s fifth largest ethnic group.

an income level/group

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The tax rate rises with the individual’s income level.

animal rights activists/campaigners/groups etc

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Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.

arrange sth in pairs/groups etc

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The children were arranged in lines according to height.

blood group

book group

consumer group

control group/population/sample etc

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A control group of non-smoking women was compared to four groups of women smokers.

distinct types/groups/categories etc

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There are four distinct types.

focus group

food group

ginger group

group captain

group dynamics

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He did research on group dynamics and leadership styles.

group dynamics

group practice

group sb/sth into categories

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Let’s start by grouping the books into categories.

group therapy

group/bereavement/debt etc counselling

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a debt counselling service

high-risk patients/groups etc

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cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups

in the ... age group

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a book for children in the 12–14 age group

interest group

loose federation/alliance/group etc

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a loose federation of political groups

peer group

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the TV shows that are popular with his peer group

pop group

pressure group

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environmental pressure groups

rival factions/groups

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My task is to unite the rival factions within the party.

sb's blood type/group (= one of the different types of human blood )

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What blood type are you?

self-help group

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a self-help group for single parents

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.

special interest group

splinter group

support group

user group

working group

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The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

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Those projects covered a range of different client groups .

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Photographs and brief biographies of the major subjects accompany different portrait groups .

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Because different groups have different values and understandings of right and wrong, the state would have to be neutral between them.

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They could contain schools with different age groups and varying styles and ways of organizing.

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This leads to the relationships between different groups , including groups from different cultures.

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But now, there are so many different groups out there.

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And flower names for the different groups .

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Rather, many different groups become active in the political process on a narrow range of issues relevant to their interests.

environmental

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The 25 members of the commission include representatives from the car, oil, chemical and other industries as well as from environmental groups .

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But Selikoff persisted in his campaign against asbestos, aided and abetted by labor unions and environmental groups .

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Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group .

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Her decision drew strong criticism from environmental groups , nuclear non-proliferation activists and some members of Congress.

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Proceeds go to the environmental group in the fight to save creatures killed in their thousands in nets set to catch tuna.

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George Miller, D-Martinez, which has the backing of environmental groups , is stalled in committee.

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The Environmental Defense Fund, a Washington-based environmental group , endorsed the plan.

ethnic

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The master list includes about a dozen organisations covering the main ethnic groups .

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Different ethnic groups within the country have been engaged in a civil war for more than forty-five years.

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This was the rendezvous for every ethnic group .

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By 2015, two populations, composed of very different ethnic groups , faced each other as adversaries across a great divide.

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Snobs abound, mustn't live the wrong side of the tracks, which ethnic group are you?

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Other restive ethnic groups will now be quicker to resort to arms.

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Mr Pejic has consistently refused to broadcast propaganda for any one ethnic group .

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Certain ethnic groups are at higher risk for developing diabetes.

large

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The largest identifiable youth group are the monks.

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The coffee to which Wynn was invited included an unusually large group of senior White House and party officials.

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The largest group affected is, as we have already noted, that consisting of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2.

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Adolescent girls are the largest group of new smokers in the United States.

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What percentage of people are in each of these two largest groups ?

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We have a very large immigrant group , in the city and coming in to the university.

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He reflects on his own diffidence and awkwardness in large groups .

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He also lacked experience leading a large group , and he was sometimes abrasive and patronizing.

local

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A few months ago they were a rag-bag of local pressure groups .

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Instead, clients had become small local groups doing small, local things.

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However, the Teams are always looking for new ideas which they can work on in partnership with local groups and individuals.

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Some of the most dynamic individuals in these local groups developed a national network.

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Ask at your council or local advice group if you are unsure what you can claim.

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The plans include changing the bill of rights, restoring police power to ban protests and restricting foreign funding of local groups .

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As a member of a local group you can receive a newsletter and attend regular social meetings.

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The local chamber of commerce prepared a promotional film on redevelopment that was shown to scores of local groups .

other

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Several other groups , including some psychiatrists, began to investigate the drug chlorpromazine about the same time.

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Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience.

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For other groups the authors note that the overall marginal tax rate was at an historically high level in excess of 60 percent.

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Trade unions and other groups can be officially affiliated to the Labour Party.

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The polishers, and several other groups could also reach that level of pay.

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By now the pressure from the other group members was enormous, but the four in possession of the body resisted by staying close together.

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The challenge to this interpretation comes from the performance of the two other groups shown in the figure.

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Like most other molluscan groups they rapidly diversified in the Ordovician.

particular

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Ideology can be seen as a set of beliefs and values which express the interests of a particular social group .

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Some legislators feel such deep loyalty to particular group or societal norms that they seldom experience seriously conflicting pressures.

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In the Roman Catholic Church priests are sometimes appointed to look after the needs of a particular ethnic group .

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Similarly, other centralised reservation systems are in operation which are not attached to any particular group .

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One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups: the poor, women and ethnic minorities.

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The holdings of particular newspaper groups fell into no tidy pattern.

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If you fail to experience tension you must try to develop your own exercise which serves to tense that particular muscle group .

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It does not maintain that all criminal laws directly express the interests of one particular group , such as the ruling class.

political

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Eurosceptic business and political groups said the figures proved that Britain could thrive without losing its currency.

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Most individuals rely on political groups to represent their interests within the political system.

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During and after the Gorbachev regime many political groups were formed.

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Well-intentioned white allies of black political groups are even more susceptible to this mistake than most black leaders.

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Weber's view of parties suggests that the relationship between political groups and class and status groups is far from clear cut.

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Types of Interest Groups To this point, we have not distinguished among political interest groups .

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Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks, and returned with little except contempt for its prospects.

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Instead, political interest groups reach out directly, using computerized mailing lists and modems in addition to the old-fashioned campaign techniques.

small

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Such a powerbase is potentially much more difficult to change in the interests of a small discriminated-against group .

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These are all small ethnic groups , mere specks on the map.

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They also set up and run small group discussions, which is done by independent free-lance researchers as well.

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Analysis Have the students answer the following questions in small groups .

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The only proof provided for such inflammatory allegations is that anarchists are organising into small groups , and these groups are autonomous.

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There is a small group of parents who are concerned with behavior modification.

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The few guests that remained stood about in small , shocked groups .

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Children have choices in literary activities; they collaborate in pairs, in small groups , and with their teachers.

social

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The bureaucracy represented a stable social group with a specific psychological style.

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Each of them has gods and ancestors whose respective power closely corresponds to that of the social groups themselves.

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However, each social group in Bradford uses the zero variant more than the corresponding group in Norwich.

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Marx argues that a social group only fully becomes a class when it becomes a class for itself.

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Differences between the two main social groups in the community were most evident in the question of landscape control and identity.

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One of the most characteristic signals of a cat entering or leaving a social group is the raising of its tail.

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This brings us to our third point, that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups .

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In particular, the relationship between the major social groups is one of exploitation and oppression.

special

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Recruiting the practices through a special interest group and through self selection is likely to have biased results.

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The 1995 version was the first set of guidelines to include oral testimony from special interest groups and individuals.

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The same applies to the subject of Section 10-4: the impact of special interest groups and class conflict.

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But both note that there are a growing number of special groups that might need supplements.

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Open daily. Special terms for groups booked in advance.

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Changes resulted from outsiders impacting the plant-Hanes management, external consultants, special interest groups , and other plants.

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These set limits to the level of contributions with the aim to prevent candidates from becoming obligated to special interest groups .

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In selecting this special group of children, it seemed to-me that Edward deserved the extra help as much as anyone.

■ NOUN

age

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One half of all women aged 65+ are widowed, compared to just one fifth of men in this age group .

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It made me proud of my age group .

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To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom.

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Next Saturday, the state championship for casting accuracy will be held, with two age groups , 7-10 and 11-14.

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In 1981 there were marked differences in the marital status of men and women in the older age groups .

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The competition is divided into two age groups , six-eleven and 12-16.

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Is the debate about reducing waiting lists less relevant to the medical care needs of older people than the younger age groups ?

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Event 14 at Nottingham perhaps attracted the largest entry for the 14 and Under and 11 and Under age groups .

consumer

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The codex secretariat has pressed governments to encourage more consumer groups to attend.

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After objections from consumer groups , however, Kaiser decided in November to eliminate bonuses related to shorter hospital sta ys.

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Join a consumers group and lobby for government legislation to make manufacturers label their products fully and accurately.

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Ten consumer groups , along with some veterinarians and meat inspectors, are urging even tougher action.

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The consumer group encourages the women to continue.

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Its members include major airlines, automakers, labor unions, medical societies, consumer groups and some insurance companies.

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But consumer groups , which have insisted that genetically modified foods should be labelled as such, rejected the plan.

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He ignored complaints from alarmed consumer groups in order to maintain popular momentum for a measure he regards as essential.

control

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A control group included five patients with no evidence of pancreatic disease.

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By contrast, productivity for the control group rose just 3. 9 percent.

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A group of young people without Saturday jobs, will act as a control group.

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By comparison, only 23 percent of the infants in the control group lived in homes that had suffered recent water damage.

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One patient in the control group died of pulmonary embolism.

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Experimental designs always have an independent or cause variable present and a control group .

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These differences were mostly caused by the increase in the weights in the treated groups compared with the control group.

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Attention is focused on the organization undergoing change, rather than on comparison with any control group .

interest

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Recruiting the practices through a special interest group and through self selection is likely to have biased results.

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Major interest groups can also exert influence through their compliance or noncompliance with the government policy process.

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The representativeness of service users' involvement is questioned far beyond that of other interest groups .

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A major segment of local ISPs is the thousands of bulletin board systems catering to different interest groups .

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Gerry: It's really strange how the special interest groups of oppressed people came into existence.

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Types of Interest Groups To this point, we have not distinguished among political interest groups .

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It comprises the entire body politic, with all its citizens and all their interest groups and social movements.

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Because politicians tend to be driven by interest groups ? public managers-unlike their private counterparts-must factor interest groups into every equation.

minority

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A family systems approach to work with minority groups must take account of all these factors.

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Wilson has been under fire from many minority groups because of his campaign against affirmative action programs.

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A smaller labour market creates a window of employment opportunity for minority groups , including those who are disabled.

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It is not the fact that you belong to minority groups , but how you handle them that counts.

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Hacker believes that the position of women in society is analogous to that of minority groups such as immigrants and Blacks.

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Then pick another minority group and do the same exercise again.

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There were also several minority group demonstrations in December.

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The proprietors have no desire to discriminate against any-one and in fact have several members of minority groups on their payroll.

peer

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Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization.

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Anything that deviates from what is customary is going to raise questions among the peer group .

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Where affection is the preserve of family and friends, status is more the preserve of the wider peer group or community.

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It might be that this peer group is the best possibility available to the extremist-activist to achieve closeness with anyone.

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The peer group makes decisions in a democratic way, with all owners having a say in the final decision.

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Rather, the programs will use school-based education programs, family members and peer groups .

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The adolescent uses the peer group to evaluate the perspectives of others, while developing his or her own values and attitudes.

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Questions that the peer group are likely to ask of a design could include: Can bespoke programs use library routines?

pressure

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The influence of pressure groups and special interests will become pervasive.

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The role of pressure groups such as the drink industry and motoring organizations will be considered.

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The emphasis on councillors, officers and pressure groups proved to be a great limitation.

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This type of comment was backed up by a small pressure group which acted independently of the main Association at public meetings.

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This research will study interactions between industry, government and pressure groups in the regulation of biotechnology hazards.

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At present victims must take their claims to court ... a pressure group says the Government should pay.

support

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Three women are now ready for an informal support group to share their experiences of the child protection system.

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This can form part of the deeper work of a support group or a counselling relationship.

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The strategic support group ground rules were all they needed to get started.

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One of lung cancer's success stories, he runs a support group for lung cancer patients and their families.

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They seek shelter in a Sunday night support group .

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The invalid care allowance she receives is 33.70 a week Marian set up a support group for carers in Oxfordshire.

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We can speak and share our stories and be quiet, like a support group .

work

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But the conventional longwall work organisation fails to build these tacit skills into the work groups .

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Then, the selection system itself prepares the candidate for successful entry into the work group .

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Group norms Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time.

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Here, Nucor organizes its work force into small work groups of twenty-five or thirty-five people.

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In most work groups , both roles emerge clearly.

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Employees are paid bonuses based upon the production of their work group over a predetermined standard.

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By the end of the month it had been codified into a document which was widely circulated for study among work groups .

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These employees are paid based upon what they produce either individually or as members of small work groups .

■ VERB

form

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A child prodigy, Balling won a jazz contest in 1944 and formed his own small group .

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Bone destruction is commonly seen in this disorder with the plasma cells forming densely packed groups in the lytic areas.

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They formed a woodcarving group and set about carving bench ends.

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He took some still pictures of them with his Leica, and they immediately formed groups , asking him to take more.

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First, older people do not form an exclusive group , but one of which every individual will eventually become a member.

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They formed a warm jostling group of six.

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The Upper Mill formed part of a group of buildings around Standish Court and stood immediately to the rear.

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We want to form structured groups .

join

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It is argued that this is a significant factor in reducing the likelihood of girls joining delinquent groups .

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After Claire joined a consciousness-raising group , she began to use the word quite freely.

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Recently I joined a drama group - I may have said.

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I joined a group of about twenty volunteers.

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I joined an eight person group one Saturday morning at ParAvion's centre in Bishops Cannings.

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Alexander joined the group with a $ 1 investment.

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Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying.

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Perhaps Gladys would join the group of Leicester ladies who were fluttering with anticipation in the back corner.

lead

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It's hard driven, but Tommy is unmistakeably a jazz drummer, very crisp and energetic and clearly leading the group .

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Mickelson had a 71 to lead a group of five players at 203.

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Conscious of the straining ears of the rest of the company, Paul Lexington led the little group out into the corridor.

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Currently, he leads an investment group that has reacquired Canary Wharf from a bank consortium.

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Any major omission will lead to a group of documents which can not be classified under the scheme.

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More recently, he has been teaching in Los Angeles and leading his own groups .

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Mitchell said last week as she led her group of pupils and parent volunteers along the native plants trail.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

action group/committee etc

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A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained.

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Members of a local action group say this isn't good enough.

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Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.

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Outhwaite names' champion Peter Nutting is to head a new working party to co-ordinate syndicate action groups.

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Political action committees, which are more active in congressional races, represented only 2 percent of the presidential campaign coffers.

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They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.

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Traffickers have become a political action committee.

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Under the Apostolic listing are prison visiting, family contacts, catechism classes, Catholic action groups and Sunday schools.

at-risk children/patients/groups etc

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First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.

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Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.

breakaway group/party/movement

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De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party.

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Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.

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Nor were there frustrated breakaway movements from a handful of top clubs.

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Thus the breakaway group, organizing its own exhibition, was an obvious initiative.

chart-topping record/group/hit etc

fringe group/event/issue etc

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After the uproar created by Nicholas Tolstoy over the Cossack repatriations, the fringe groups had been taken very seriously.

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Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.

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One girl shared her story of a fringe group, which for ten years had dominated her life.

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The remaining 5 percent aligned themselves with fringe groups such as the Natural Law, Green and Libertarian parties.

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To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.

interested party/group

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All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting.

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Almost 1500 copies were despatched, ensuring that the proposals reached as many interested parties as possible.

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At the other end of the political spectrum, some left-leaning think tanks take money from interested parties.

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Costs and expenses Article 12 of the Convention specifies that costs and other expenses must be borne by the interested parties.

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Every effort will be made to accommodate requests to provide all interested parties with the same information.

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Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received.

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Local authorities must also respond to requests for information from a variety of interested groups.

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That is increasingly being recognised by many interested parties.

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The Department of Education is inviting interested parties to submit comments on the new support arrangements by October 31.

target audience/group/area etc

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It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.

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Most of its students are the provincial poor, the target audience of leftist guerrilla groups.

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Providing prevention materials to state health departments will ensure that target groups have ready access to such materials.

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The target areas were both moderate. income tracts of South Phoenix. 4.

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The approach involves identifying variations in the functioning of target areas and relating those variations to known differences in cortical function.

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The key is to analyze the target audience, Half said.

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The other major target group is those hospitalised with infectious illnesses.

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We know the terrain in the target area is complicated, rugged.

umbrella organization/group/agency etc

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About 130 professional and human-rights groups are folded into Concilio Cubano, a rickety umbrella group set up last year.

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Inpeg, the Czech environmentalist umbrella group that organised the protests, refused to condemn Molotov cocktails being thrown at police.

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La Raza is an umbrella group of almost 200 Hispanic advocacy groups.

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The umbrella group we'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance, but the name still meant something.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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A group of new houses is to be built on the old playing-field.

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A group of us went out for a drink to celebrate Sonia's birthday.

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a rock group

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A small group had gathered outside the stage door.

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an old photograph of a group of soldiers sitting on the ground

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Families in the lowest income group could not afford to educate their children.

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Men stood in groups on street corners.

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News International is a group of companies that produce newspapers and TV programmes.

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Outside the school, little groups of friends were talking to each other.

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Robberies were common on the lonely roads, so people usually travelled in groups.

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The factory was burned down by a group of animal-rights activists.

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The good thing about the class is that all the students belong to the same age group .

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The hospital is desperate for donors from the rhesus negative blood group .

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The house was hidden behind a tall group of trees.

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The Pearson Group owns a diverse array of companies.

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The teacher told us to get into groups of three.

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The tickets are expensive, but there is a discount for school groups.

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Their policy was to keep demonstrators from different political groups apart.

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Today you will learn a new group of verbs.

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We got all the family together for a group photo.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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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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He was one of the very few posters when the Weekly briefly tried to maintain an online discussion group .

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Inter-Company and Consortium programmes are run for organisations sponsoring smaller groups and provide a useful cross cultural experience.

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Locally we already have two Pittses and a Chipmunk group operating, and have aerobatic training available at both Perth and Dundee.

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The group is to be featured in a full-length movie later this year and recently signed a contract to promote Pepsi.

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The talks I had with members of the group I recreated in my Conversations in Bloomsbury.

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These research subjects are presumed to be ignorant and vulnerable groups in society and almost always include students.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

around

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Its position indicates that in the past houses were grouped around this area rather than in the lengthy one-street formation as now.

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Three others - all of an equally modest size - grouped around it.

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The rooms are all grouped around one or more peristyles.

together

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Relevant statutory provisions may be grouped together or scattered through the judgment.

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If individuals of similar income were grouped together , the outcome might be unstable.

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Your reference materials should be sorted out and grouped together around each subheading within the proposal outline.

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For collectors there was a splendid array of miscellaneous artefacts grouped together in sections.

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They are arranged by faculty with all the degrees offered by a particular faculty grouped together .

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Here and there the anti-Fascists were grouped together and running fights broke out with the Blackshirts.

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Members are organised in local branches grouped together in regions that are overseen by voluntary Regional Directors.

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