noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adverse
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For theft there must be adverse interference or usurpation.
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In Morris the Lords held that there was no appropriation without an adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner's rights.
bureaucratic
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He had quit, he said, because he no longer knew what to say when head teachers complained about bureaucratic interference .
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More will become involved if given the opportunity to experiment free of regulatory restraints and bureaucratic interference .
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Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief.
external
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And the Liverpool Society warns of the threat of external interference if the profession is not seen to be demonstrating effective self-regulation.
foreign
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Strident editorials in the official press condemned foreign interference and predicted the worldwide triumph of socialism.
free
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A reformed Competition Commission will be able to break up monopolies, free from interference from ministers.
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These can be studied free of interference from positively charged counter-ions - something chemists normally find extremely hard to achieve.
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To achieve these purposes, such organisations must be free from government interference or control. 4.
human
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If they do so for long enough, one species may be absorbed into another. Human interference is often to blame.
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In most cases, nocturnal singing, such as your whitethroat indulged in, also comes about through human interference .
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Strong and prescient words, yet Marsh was not calling for a halt to all human interference .
outside
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The skill becomes increasingly resistant to stress influences and can be continued despite outside interference .
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They are expected suddenly to adapt to the modern world after a century of colonial domination and outside interference .
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I remember resenting even this slender evidence of outside interference .
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Again it's cheap, and offers the least resistance to outside interference .
political
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It assumed also an absence of political interference .
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That the system must be insulated from political interference is easy to say and difficult, but not impossible, to accomplish.
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Its difficulties have partly stemmed from cuts in Medicaid, but also from political interference .
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Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process.
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Such a move would reimpose the dead hand of state control and political interference .
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The chairman was arrested, and his phone records showed numerous calls from Vajpayee's office, raising questions of political interference .
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Party political interference , he said, rejecting the possibility of a London police authority, was especially to be abhorred.
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If John Mallet believes that the restructuring proposals at the V&A were the result of political interference , he will believe anything.
unwarranted
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The only possible reason for your unwarranted interference is boredom!
■ NOUN
government
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I had hoped we were now beyond reach of Government interference .
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The measure passed easily, but heavy-handed government interference in the voting brought the result into question.
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But I believe - most of us believe - that this is not a legitimate area for Government interference .
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And although government programs have their flaws, they are totally consistent with heavy government interference in agriculture.
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With less Government interference , more local competence will emerge.
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Can a well-funded public telecommunications system be reconciled with the First Amendment principle of a press free of government interference and involvement?
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I want an inspectorate to have the ability to make comments and criticisms and to be free of direct government interference .
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The high gas prices and long lines were prolonged by government interference in the private sector.
pass
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Back judge Bill Lovett saw pass interference on Woodson and threw a penalty flag.
pattern
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A clear interference pattern is produced.
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Our intervention with the lamp has destroyed the interference pattern .
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This process forms gratings in the crystal, a record of the interference pattern .
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The resulting interference pattern is recorded in the emulsion on the holographic plate.
state
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Of course, these straight forward ideas mask substantial ethical and practical problems associated with state interference in family life.
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She had been admitted to the school without state interference and expelled for criticizing the board of trustees.
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The ill-effects of state interference in the economy take several forms.
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Eberhard Lammert, president of Berlin's Free University, understandably resents state interference with professorships and other internal matters.
theory
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Other interference theories attribute latent inhibition to the effects of an association between the pre-exposed stimulus and its consequences.
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There are two main kinds of theory of why animals forget: the decay theory and the interference theory.
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According to the interference theory , animals forget things not because memory fades but because other memories displace them.
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The rat experiments that we have been considering suggest that the interference theory is more accurate.
■ VERB
avoid
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Later it may possibly be used in ordinary conversation, but again quiet circumstances avoid interference from the background noise.
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That is, there is reason to accept the outcome of market processes and avoid interference with them.
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Counting was done 2 weeks after completion of studies to avoid interference from urine 1 1 1 In.
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The inspectors, appointed by the Crown in order to avoid governmental interference , had right of access to virtually any chemical company.
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One manufacturer, Superswitch, provides 16 possible address codes to ensure that neighbours can avoid mutual interference if they want to.
call
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An important consequence of this is that one can observe what is called interference between two sets of waves or particles.
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He calls it an interference with free markets.
cause
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A computer in the same building can cause interference .
prevent
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The aim of the law of public nuisance is to prevent interference with the rights of the public at large.
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In each case, federal troops were ostensibly used to prevent interference to the mail.
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Food is shared to reduce risks of damage in fighting and to prevent interference with eating.
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The delegates wanted both a stable militia and a stable national standing army, providing the states could prevent uninvited national interference .
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Security was increased during the elections to ensure public order and to prevent any interference with polling stations.
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This could help to prevent interference , in the absence of filters.
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In Band B, address codes alone could not prevent interference .
produce
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Complete stopping-down, however, produces spurious interference effects at grain edges and reduces resolution.
run
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Even with Hilton Railey running interference , the first twenty-four hours in London were rocky indeed.
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Denver ran a mighty interference and on the third day flat-out asked Paul D how long he was going to hang around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There's a lot of interference on my car radio.