adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a short-term/immediate impact
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A military attack may only have a short-term impact on terrorist activity.
an immediate ban
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The group has called for an immediate ban on fur farming.
an immediate goal (= that you need to achieve very soon )
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Our immediate goal is to cut costs.
an immediate halt
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The government called for an immediate halt to the fighting.
an immediate threat (= the possibility that something bad will happen very soon )
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The volcano erupted on Thursday but there is no immediate threat to nearby towns.
immediate steps
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We believe immediate steps could be taken to generate jobs.
immediate superior (= the person directly above him )
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He had a good working relationship with his immediate superior .
immediate (= quick and sudden )
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The announcement had an immediate effect on stock prices.
immediate/imminent danger (= likely to happen very soon )
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The passengers on the boat were not in immediate danger.
immediate/prompt/swift action
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The public wants immediate action to stop the terrorists.
sb's immediate family (= closest relations )
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What if one of your immediate family were disabled?
sb's immediate successor (= the person who has their job or position next )
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Valentinian's immediate successor, Petronius Maximus, was killed in 455.
sb's present/immediate concern
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Her two immediate concerns were to find a home and a job.
sb’s first/initial/immediate impression
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My first impression was that Terry’s version of the events was untrue.
sb’s first/initial/immediate reaction
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His first reaction was to laugh.
sb’s immediate circle (= your family and some close friends )
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We didn’t tell anyone what had happened outside our immediate circle.
sb’s immediate plans (= what they are going to do next )
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So what are your immediate plans after graduation?
sb’s immediate priority (= which must be dealt with immediately )
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Their immediate priority was to find somewhere to sleep that night.
sb’s immediate response
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When he was sentenced, his immediate response was to appeal.
the immediate environment (= the building in which you live or work, and the area very close to it )
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Most accidents happen to young children within the immediate environment of their home.
the immediate future (= very soon )
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There will be no major changes in the immediate future.
the immediate past (= the very recent past )
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In order to understand the present, we must look at the immediate past.
the immediate result
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Keep trying even if your first enquiry produces no immediate result.
the immediate/initial/short-term aim (= that you hope to achieve quickly )
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The immediate aim is to develop the travel business.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Indirect taxes can be varied more quickly and easily, taking more immediate effect, than can direct taxes.
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I had a more immediate problem.
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There were also more immediate factors that were specific to the 1990 contest.
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But Brown wants a more immediate impact.
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He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly.
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Of more immediate concern to them was the appalling reality that the nature and tempo of operations engendered.
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A more immediate peril was her frail stupid desire to ask some sort of help from either Gildas or Ludens.
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It would seem that involuntary affirmation could be commanded only on even more immediate and urgent grounds than silence.
most
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The most immediate effect of all this has been the announcement of increased mortgage rates.
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Perhaps the most immediate challenge confronts Sen.
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His love and concern for his fellows was expressed in the most immediate , yet measured and sensitive way.
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This is what makes the most immediate impact on the hearer and arouses his empathy.
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The most immediate of these was the demise of Lucy Ashdown.
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The most immediate effect of his proposal would be to block gaming by the Salt River tribe.
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In 1641, the Gaels rebelled again, this time against their most immediate oppressors, the Protestant planters.
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The most immediate and obvious impact on group medical plans will be an increased cost to employers to provide those plans.
■ NOUN
access
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With no words spoken the crowd parted before the old man, allowing him immediate access to the bar.
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Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
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Those unable to gain immediate access to their offices were advised to go to Guildhall, where company representatives would be waiting.
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As a consequence, only laboratories with immediate access to particle accelerators can carry out this sort of work.
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Do you require immediate access to your money?
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Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff.
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Memory-the part of the computer which stores information for immediate access .
action
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The Treasury was prepared to accept this provided there was no commitment to immediate action .
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The message you conveyed to me was clear: immediate action must be taken.
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I became eager for immediate action .
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The generals and admirals said they had always been against the blockade as being too weak and now they wanted immediate action .
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Student welfare officers became concerned about the intensity of Life at oxford University, and in todays report they urge immediate action .
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But he did not propose immediate action , such as a hike in interest rates to cool the markets.
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They say they now want their employers to take immediate action .
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Following an hourlong hearing, a three-member panel of judges took no immediate action on the lawsuit.
aftermath
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The situation in Kabul was extremely confusing in the immediate aftermath of Najibullah's removal.
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The last time I had spoken to him was in the immediate aftermath of the coxless pairs final at the Atlanta Olympics.
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Operation Resurrection, as it was called, was first mooted in the immediate aftermath of 13 May.
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Something over two hundred vacancies resulted in the immediate aftermath and a trickle of further resignations followed for some years to come.
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Furthermore, it had been alarmed at local initiatives taken in the immediate aftermath of the June war.
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Impressions formed by investigators at the scene of a crime and in its immediate aftermath can not be repeated later.
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Beyond 1945 and its immediate aftermath was the outline of a future permeated with hope.
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In the immediate aftermath of annexation or conquest Euric's rule was far from pleasant.
area
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Try to think more positively about walks, and wake up to new opportunities outside your immediate area .
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Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.
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Outside the immediate area of commercialization, however, another phenomenon appeared.
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Sparta offers delivery in the immediate area .
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Easily Accessible: Downhayes is set in an area of small working farms with few public footpaths in the immediate area.
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Maureen searched the immediate area , hoping to find the missing limb, but no luck.
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The few burrows in this immediate area had never been allowed to develop fully.
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The great majority of non-employees who commit crimes against business will live in the immediate area .
attention
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It is a demand that begins to override the others, and to require immediate attention .
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It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention .
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In fact, Green Chemistry is published so attractively that it catches immediate attention of the readers.
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When he put down the Moscow Dynamos and started to talk about himself, he got immediate attention .
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But because he didn't receive immediate attention , he's likely to remain partially lame the rest of his life.
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Surely there are more important illegal issues requiring immediate attention , i.e. assaults on the aged and small children.
cause
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It is that representation in my brain that is the immediate cause of my actions.
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The immediate cause of last week's blackouts was a large power plant suddenly going offline in Northern California.
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Its immediate cause resides in two distinct but related issues.
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In the last part of the poem he tells them that he has only discussed the immediate cause of diarrhea.
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As to these immediate causes , the choice is straight forward.
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The immediate cause of his first campaign was to support the town of Lodi, which had been subject to control by Milan.
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The immediate cause for concern is that changes in the Sun's diameter are linked with changes in its heat output.
comment
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A spokeswoman for President-elect Bush, said his press office was on holiday and had no immediate comment .
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The Pentagon had no immediate comment on the letter.
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There's been no immediate comment from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
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The university had no immediate comment , spokesman Bill Gordon said.
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BAn Arco spokesman had no immediate comment .
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Police officials in San Francisco had no immediate comment on the development.
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Fokker declined immediate comment on teh Daimler move.
concern
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My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship.
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Of more immediate concern to them was the appalling reality that the nature and tempo of operations engendered.
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Your immediate concern is how to make yourself the candidate most likely to succeed!
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The more immediate concern , namely, self-preservation, had made friends and benefactors of their former enemies.
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Our more immediate concern in this section is with measurement as understood within variable analysis.
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My immediate concern is that the tone of your coverage was very negative, speculative, and highly opinionated.
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A more immediate concern is the danger that a monumental scientific advance could be commercialised.
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The management of such a system was of immediate concern to the school, and support-staff involvement was considered necessary.
danger
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To Dorcas's amazement, now that the immediate danger was over, she seemed to be quite enjoying it.
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Its main action is to prepare us for short-term, immediate danger .
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It was clear, even from the heavily edited pictures, that the lives of the police were not in immediate danger .
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The judge said there was no evidence that the brothers were in immediate danger .
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But the most chilling deduction from the fact of Bill Sweet's murder was the immediate danger to Jacqui.
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They are probably the No. 1 immediate danger .
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It is sufficient to know that the immediate danger from the rear has been cancelled out.
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After three hours Hsu Fu was hauled out of immediate danger , but only just.
effect
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However limited its immediate effects , the ideology of Enlightened Despotism was important in the long term.
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It advanced the use of shock to cure anything by scaring it out of your body, with immediate effect .
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Indirect taxes can be varied more quickly and easily, taking more immediate effect , than can direct taxes.
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The group said it was acting quickly because it feared that the new law would have an immediate effect on the Internet.
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On Feb. 20 the Volkskammer approved a new electoral law to have immediate effect .
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The most immediate effect of his proposal would be to block gaming by the Salt River tribe.
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The immediate effect of these changes can be easily exaggerated.
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You need to determine whether the trend will extend beyond the immediate effect of the earnings statement.
environment
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In architectural terms, it suggests that a design should not represent an international style but should respond to its immediate environment .
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A vague feeling of disorientation or strangeness relative to the immediate environment . 3.
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Is there something different about your immediate environment which may be causing you to feel unsettled?
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The patient's cells have reacted to a trace of a protein in the food, or present in the immediate environment .
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In the current series she moves out of the body and into its immediate environment , the domestic world.
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This year the theme is the conservation of monuments and their immediate environment .
family
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The tumult of war had undoubtedly touched Leonard, though his immediate family were spared its direct horrors.
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Cancer claimed the lives of her parents and hit 14 of 17 people in her immediate family .
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Her husband and her immediate family live in Moscow.
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Fidela Kirstein died in 1991; the couple had no children, and Kirstein left no other immediate family .
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The brotherhood of man did not end with the immediate family of siblings at which it began.
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My own camp was wedged between the two branches of my immediate family .
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This impetus originated mainly from two previously noted sources: the user's immediate family and the police.
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Oh, and I should probably start with your immediate family .
future
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If any sector commands attention for the immediate future of food, it is the women.
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It seems reasonable to assume that he used his science to determine the probable course of the history of the immediate future .
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While Stavrogin never gets to see Tikhon, the immediate future holds murder in store for Shatov.
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Major changes, such as abolition of the program, appear unlikely in the immediate future .
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The prospects for the immediate future are bleak.
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By that time Ed had some fairly definite plans for his immediate future .
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Now for the immediate future , and the various centenary celebrations which begin this weekend.
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Now in his second major-league spring training Taylor is pretty sure of his immediate future .
impact
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I too enlarged the material in Sur Incises, and the work had an immediate impact without my abandoning anything at all.
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But the United States has demurred, lobbying only for senior positions that can have an immediate impact on U.S. interests.
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Yet the immediate impact of the statute was much less dramatic than this longer-term picture might suggest.
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With those expectations already incorporated in investors' thinking, Greenspan's remarks had only a small immediate impact on financial markets.
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The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king.
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There are few defensive backs who are expected to make immediate impact .
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Few articles can have made such a great and immediate impact on both the theoretical and practical planes.
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But Brown wants a more immediate impact .
need
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Edward accepted the immediate need to support Helen's decision and maintain Mrs Noble's good opinion of him.
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It is not problem-solving oriented; and very often it has no relevance to the immediate needs of the society.
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Users need not work through the exercises sequentially, but can choose according to immediate need.
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If you tried to deal with all these immediate needs you were a lost man.
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The immediate need is to expand the entire system.
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She saw only the immediate need of a particular individual and tried to meet it then and there.
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The statute requires, however, not a threat of immediate danger, but rather an immediate need to act to protect.
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Not withstanding this, we have an immediate need to protect our property from the moment the slate falls.
neighbours
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On the left were our immediate neighbours , the Guttentags.
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Some of the players have short-term and perhaps ill-judged designs on the territory of their immediate neighbours .
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Steve's immediate neighbours are terrific.
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In Figure 3, the basic tree in the centre is surrounded by 8 of its 18 immediate neighbours in genetic space.
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Its immediate neighbours see it as a bully.
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Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours .
plan
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Regional health authority officers insist they have no immediate plans to look at the possibility of merging districts.
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Though ValuJet has no immediate plans to upgrade, it is thinking about the future.
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At first, he appeared to have no immediate plans to take on the armed forces.
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He has no immediate plans to retire, having reached a peak in his career.
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Now he says he has no immediate plans for exit and has not ruled out a trade sale.
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None of the banks has any immediate plan to change its rates.
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Jim's spokesman Cliff Elson said there were no immediate plans for divorce.
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The port authority says it has no immediate plans for developing more of Seal Sands.
predecessor
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This, at least, suggested the possibility of other lands beyond those recognized by his immediate predecessor Hecataeus.
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Politician, historian and writer of many biographies, he was our immediate predecessor , yielding the Green Study to me.
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In some ways, however, Alexander was better prepared for the throne than either of his immediate predecessors .
problem
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The immediate problem , however, lies in implementing such a system.
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I had a more immediate problem .
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But Jack Mason had solved the immediate problem for me.
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Any threat to the vision in one eye is far more serious than the immediate problem .
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The immediate problem for parents is what to tell them.
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He seems to be suggesting the endowment as a quick solution to an immediate problem , but he knows better.
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It should be particularistic and small scale and concerned with the immediate problems of a given institutional context.
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This is not an immediate problem in the hectic process of establishing the great new structure.
reaction
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His immediate reaction was that there was an oil leak.
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The State Department had no immediate reaction .
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My immediate reaction , whether it be a man or a woman, is to think the worst of them.
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The Republican National Committee had no immediate reaction to the Democrats' changes.
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They need time to digest radical change, otherwise their immediate reaction is negative.
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If he had a flaw, it was that he lacked the ability to question his own immediate reactions .
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The children's immediate reaction was a sense of relief at having arrived somewhere.
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To keep everyone happy press officer David Begg, from Glasgow, recorded immediate reactions .
response
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As an immediate response to the killing the police detained more than 200 people in the Zawiya al-Hamra district of Cairo.
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The immediate responses to complaints made by Justice Department officials in the new administration seemed cold-blooded and callous.
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His immediate response was to appeal.
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Until recently, courts have resisted self-defence arguments unless the woman committed the crime in immediate response to battering.
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His immediate response was to arrest 150 people for suspected links with Hamas's military wing, Izzadin el-Qassam.
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David Blunkett's immediate response was absolutely right.
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At times, these images may be so powerful as to demand an immediate response .
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The immediate response was that Lewis had not deserved to lose and would be exercising his right to an immediate rematch.
result
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One immediate result of my departure from Berkeley was my giving up my flat by the school and going back to London.
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The immediate result of the campus power struggle was that Knickerbocker was asked to leave at the end of the 1936-37 year.
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I am happy to say that the change brought immediate results .
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Thus the immediate result of a K / impact anywhere on Earth would be wildfire ignition over the entire planet.
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The immediate result is a confrontation between an angry and bewildered Pharaoh and Abraham.
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The Czech coup had another immediate result with immense long-range consequences.
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If you decide to follow any of these suggestions, don't expect immediate results .
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What was more important than immediate results , I figured, was my education.
superior
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Restoring a damaged relationship with a superior Your most important working relationship is with your immediate superior.
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Can teachers be disciplined for publicly criticizing their immediate superiors ?
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The managers generally failed to take advantage of a potentially valuable resource, their immediate superiors .
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Clint Eastwood is usually threatened with dismissal in his detective movies, sometimes because his immediate superior is on the take.
threat
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My tardiness prompted an immediate threat of a fine, but it never materialised.
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Officials said there was no immediate threat of tsunami, a seismic ocean wave, which could be catastrophic to the area.
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The immediate threat to the West may be inflation; the spectre in the shadows is deflation.
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The most immediate threat is to bird life.
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Although the gunman had her pinned down he wasn't her immediate threat .
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The creation of States posed an immediate threat to the freedom of action of lesser rulers.
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It claimed, however, that there appeared to be no immediate threat to humans or the environment.
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The most immediate threat remains the current drought and the danger of a flood of refugees.
use
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Better have some O neg. sent up for immediate use as well.
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Most significantly, Mirror papers introduced modern printing techniques, processed photos locally for immediate use and speeded up the presses.
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While this step awaits technical advances, cleaner fuels for cars and lorries, such as methanol, are urged for immediate use .
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Carry the hand far enough forwards for immediate use as a reverse punch.
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The name and date were inserted in a decorative framework, this probably being kept standing for immediate use when sightseers arrived.
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Why is it that most women will not go out of the house without bags loaded with objects of no immediate use ?
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The entries were not much immediate use to him.
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Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest.
vicinity
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When lines cross, focus upon the near line throws the far line out of focus in the immediate vicinity of the cross.
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As they fire adenosine is produced and ends up floating around in the immediate vicinity of the neuron.
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Unfamiliar environment Familiarity with an environment makes it less hazardous; for example people adjust spatially to avoid objects in their immediate vicinity .
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It allowed us to discuss her even when we were within her immediate vicinity .
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In the immediate vicinity , sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room.
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Both mechanisms, however, cause indiscriminate damage in the immediate vicinity fo the neutrophil.
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The stop serves a wider catchment than the immediate vicinity of West Richmond Street.
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He is still in the immediate vicinity .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with immediate effect/with effect from
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My immediate reaction was shock and horror.
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One immediate worry is money.
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Our immediate concern was to stop the fire spreading.
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Several homes in the immediate area of the volcano were evacuated.
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The immediate needs of the refugees are for warm clothing and clean drinking water.
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The benefits of the program have been neither immediate nor obvious.
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The UN demanded the immediate release of the hostages.
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This letter requires your immediate attention.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the immediate consequence of the prohibition of women in trading was clear to all: It kept women farther from power.
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His love and concern for his fellows was expressed in the most immediate , yet measured and sensitive way.
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Inside, Sammler felt an immediate descent; his heart sinking.
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Often such complex layouts lead to immediate confusion, but the manual gets you off the ground with some helpful suggested settings.
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Qiao Shi, the intelligence chief who had abstained in the martial law vote earlier, endorsed an immediate army crackdown.
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The group said it was acting quickly because it feared that the new law would have an immediate effect on the Internet.