adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a domestic/internal flight (= a flight within a country )
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Is there a domestic flight between Havana and Varadero?
an internal review (= one that an organization carries out on itself )
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The Army is conducting an internal review.
domestic/internal affairs ( also home affairs British English ) (= events inside a country )
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the Minister of Home Affairs
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He said that the US should not try to interfere in his country's domestic affairs.
internal audit (= an audit carried out by a company’s own staff )
internal bleeding
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He died of internal bleeding .
internal combustion engine
internal dissensions
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The Labour Party was torn by internal dissensions .
internal divisions
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The Army was plagued by internal divisions .
internal exile (= when someone is forced to move somewhere within a country )
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The governor has the power to send people into internal exile in other regions.
internal injuries (= injuries inside your body )
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He was coughing blood, a sign that he had internal injuries.
internal logic (= logic that seems sensible within a particular activity or situation )
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Each major religion has its own internal logic.
internal medicine
internal organs (= organs inside your body )
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She died after suffering serious damage to internal organs.
Internal Revenue Service
internal structure
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Scientists have been investigating the internal structure of the planet Mars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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affair
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Helsinki was full of pious declarations about the inviolability of borders and non-interference in internal affairs .
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Of more concern, Nye and other specialists feel, is the growing political influence of the military in internal affairs .
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Venetiaan stated his desire to reform the Constitution to reduce the involvement of the army in internal affairs .
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They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like.
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The internal affairs of a member state are no business of the union, hence the reticence in Brussels.
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Barbuda maintains a considerable degree of control over its internal affairs .
audit
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The internal audit function reports to the Audit Committee.
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The banks have conducted two internal audits and come up with about $ 30 million in dormant accounts.
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In this respect it could feature as an aspect of the internal audit of a company.
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These periodic internal audits can be a source of revitalization and renewal.
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The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
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This is known as an internal audit .
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For internal audit to carry out these responsibilities it is essential that it operates with adequate independence.
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However, the standard of internal audit in the public sector is not generally very good.
auditor
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However, because the ultimate responsibility is given to the external auditor , the role of the internal auditor is not emphasized.
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Many accountants and auditors were unlicensed management accountants, internal auditors, or government accountants and auditors.
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The concluding section considers the relationship between the external and internal auditor .
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Similarly, management will increasingly need internal auditors to develop new ways to discover and eliminate waste and fraud.
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The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
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Beginning management accountants often start as cost accountants, junior internal auditors , or as trainees for other accounting positions.
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The chief internal auditor must be assisted by sufficient staff of the right quality and quantity.
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There is a large degree of mobility among public accountants, management accountants, and internal auditors .
combustion
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The computer chip was a huge breakthrough, greater than the lightbulb, telephone, or internal combustion engine.
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Nevertheless, the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way.
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First and most radical, a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered.
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Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
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A combination of mass production and the internal combustion engine was responsible for the Allied victory.
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Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine.
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
conflict
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The organisation was complex and not without internal conflict .
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It would also reduce the amount of internal conflict we had within the organization.
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The internal conflicts caused by his strong Quaker beliefs and lack of prospects caused a breakdown when he was twenty-one.
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But what happened in Jerusalem between 168 and 164 B.C. went beyond the ordinary internal conflicts of the Seleucid state.
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It is surrounded by states with internal conflicts and has received successive waves of refugees.
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It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling.
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This, coupled with internal conflicts at Motorola over the 680x0 program, led to a weak positioning of both product lines.
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When it is expressed by the marriage partner the internal conflict is externalized, sometimes on a daily basis.
control
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Britain still hoped that a Commonwealth front could be achieved, with considerable internal control of Empire air routes.
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Related Occupations Accountants and auditors design internal control systems and analyze financial data.
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An important supplement to these direct and internal controls is provided by efficiency audits.
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For example, during construction, the subject of an internal control questionnaire might be variations and site instructions.
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In order to compare signals hybridization in Northern experiments, srRNA was used as an internal control .
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Internal audit is an integral part of internal control .
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The auditor's work on systems of internal control is a subsidiary task.
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Indeed, the definition of a financial audit explicitly includes examination of systems of internal control whereas the commercial audit does not.
dissension
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Unti1 1939 the Labour Party was bedevilled by internal dissensions on this issue.
division
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The bank was wracked by internal divisions between the bank's traditional managers and the outsiders headed by Sir Kit.
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But one worrisome development for insiders is the appearance of internal divisions .
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Fractions are the deepest internal division of a class, where incompatible material interests show up in separate political organization.
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Whatever disagreement there is about the internal divisions of the texts in the manuscripts, the whole treatise has a shape.
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The size and internal divisions accommodate A4 and A5 paper and documents.
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Labour, they say, is likely to be distracted by deepening internal division over its constitutional plans and its election failure.
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The internal division will be only temporary because the other states-crucially, Britain-will soon be drawn in.
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The internal divisions which seemingly threatened, but actually assisted, the political survival of General Franco continued into 1942.
document
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The revelation came in the form of internal documents of the Aleyeska Pipeline Service company, which were leaked to a congressman.
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The brief represents another attempt to use internal documents against the $ 50 billion tobacco industry.
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The reports produced to date are internal documents , and only those referring to botany need be mentioned here.
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One internal document puts the price tag at $ 1. 7 million.
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Many companies use Intranets to distribute internal documents-in effect publishing Web pages for their own private use.
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Instead, particular issues raised by these internal documents will be addressed in separate submissions by the affected companies.
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No report should be issued since this is an internal document .
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Another internal document showed that Hip Hing generated only $ 38, 400 in income in 1992.
injury
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A post-mortem examination showed he had suffered internal injuries , said a spokesman.
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Miss Tish was rushed to the hospital with internal injuries .
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Sandra is still under sedation in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and a broken collar bone.
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They ran over Mr Letts and left him lying in the road with serious internal injuries .
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At that point people were not giving much for his chances, but luckily he had no internal injuries .
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The usual cause of death is due to internal injuries caused by butting, or exhaustion resulting from being chased.
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Andrew suffered a broken leg, broken arm and internal injuries .
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Ron Letts died in hospital from internal injuries after being hit by a stolen van.
investigation
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Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds.
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An internal investigation last year failed to turn up the culprit, according to Disneyland spokesman Tom Brocato.
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The roster, till rolls and security cameras were examined in Thresher's own internal investigation .
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He has made no public comment since the school began an internal investigation in November regarding recruiting.
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After an internal investigation on Monday, the Bafta council rejected allegations of vote-rigging.
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The most far-reaching internal investigation in Phoenix police history cost four officers their jobs Friday for purchasing banned rifles under false pretenses.
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The practice was stopped immediately it was discovered and is now under internal investigation .
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The Justice Department began an internal investigation , and Republicans began aiming for Coffey.
management
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A mixture of consultation and internal management control might well prove a better starting point.
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Party political factors, professionalism and the dispositions of key personalities all usually have some bearing on internal management structures.
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Organisational needs Organisations will need to collect information and maintain records for a range of internal management purposes.
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This orientation to the political sphere conditions internal management organization and culture.
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An attempt to substantiate this point will be attempted in chapter 8 from an internal management perspective.
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For internal management control purposes a annual budget will normally be broken down into discrete quarterly, monthly or even shorter periods.
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We are looking at ways in which the internal management of local authorities might become more effective.
market
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Evaluation of the first year's operation of the internal market is not straight forward.
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This, and many similar references, suggests that this remains the popular conception of an internal market .
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Relations between employees are even worse in companies where different teams are set to compete against each other in an internal market .
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Is not this a case of your money or your life in the internal market ?
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One way is to be more specific about the expected effects of internal markets .
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The buying up of sometimes very good pictures or drawings for internal market prices was a legalised form of robbery.
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The fundholding scheme has entailed costs for other actors in the internal market .
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The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market .
medicine
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Smith has been practicing internal medicine in Mesa since 1976.
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Physicians trained in internal medicine are attached and function as consultants.
organ
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If we look at the internal organs there is not much to distinguish a chimpanzee's heart or liver from our own.
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Without insulin, sugar lingers in the bloodstream, silently damaging the internal organs .
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These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs .
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Medical illustrators keep the Pernkopf Anatomy on their drawing boards for ready reference as they depict obscure internal organs with computer-generated images.
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Yet the distribution of internal organs is asymmetric.
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Who knows what permanent disability his little internal organs may be suffering because of our good intentions?
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One wretch wishes his head returned, another even claims his internal organs .
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Segmentation is not only shown in the external differentiation of the body but also involves many of the internal organs .
organization
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State conjunctural policies respond, similarly, to variations in the strategies and internal organization of the dominant class.
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The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society.
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In comparison, internal organization is a more attractive way of administering such transactions.
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A further organizational trend under way in the tourist industry concerns an aspect of the internal organization of travel firms themselves.
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Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.
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If the scale of the society is a natural first question, the next is certainly its internal organization .
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This is the internal organization of the text.
politics
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Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics .
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Human institutions can not be understood without understanding their internal politics .
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But it was beset by internal politics and narrow-mindedness.
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Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre, and out of proportion to the city's importance.
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A number of young activists who had been involved in internal politics since 1976 were also elected.
power
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Looking to internal power and control within the family is one consequent strategy.
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Simply put, it is a means of generating internal power so enormous one can fell an opponent without actually touching him.
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We will assume you are using an efficient undergravel, or internal power filter.
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The emergence, or re-emergence in some cases, of Nation-States which intended to organize internal power according to their own values.
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The tank is three feet long and has both undergravel and internal power filtration.
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Interpet products are widely available in the aquatic trade, in case of difficulty contact Another internal power filter comes to us from Eheim.
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The set us is run on a Fluval 4 internal power filter.
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An extra water pump in the form of an internal power sponge filter will be necessary for good water circulation.
problem
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The rivalry between Fabius and Rocard had been a major component of the party's internal problems .
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Congress and the executive branch are often too immobilized by internal problems of political survival to take action on great national questions.
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Apart from these public problems , the profession also has an internal problem.
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Even more bizarre was the terminology the firm used to describe its internal problems .
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Relatively clear ones arise from the structure of central and local government, their internal problems and their relations with one another.
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Bevin himself had earlier remarked that internal problems might moderate Soviet policy.
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Moreover, other territories were taken up with their own internal problems .
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What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems .
report
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Will the historian of the future be adequately served if only the internal reports profiling donors survive?
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Cohen is expected to receive his own internal report on the issue in about a month.
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After a damning internal report this month on conditions at Brixton prison both admitted that the service was institutionally racist.
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The Metropolitan police has overspent its budget by £70m, according to an internal report by its auditors.
review
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It is an internal review , and we do not intend to publish it.
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He said that instead there would be a thorough internal review of the inspectorate, which would report by July.
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So Mr Burgreen, doing all that he could, said he would add a civilian to his internal review board.
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In such cases, careful consideration should be given to the appropriate internal review .
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Adopt and record a written plan for undertaking internal reviews which states the frequency of reviews.
security
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Fear of greater threats to internal security , such as open revolts, clearly does not exist.
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As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
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The landowners were able to express their views on problems of internal security , foreign affairs, and taxation increases.
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The lord lieutenancy was originally devised by the Tudors as a means of internal security .
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An initial preoccupation was co-operation over economic development, but later priorities were internal security and defence.
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The second was the problem of internal security .
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He graduated from Moscow University with degrees in psychology and political science and joined the internal security .
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The Governor, representing the sovereign, is responsible for external affairs, defence and internal security .
state
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What happens if the federal Minister of Finance and the Minister of Finance for the largest internal state take different lines?
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We call these the internal states of the device.
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The internal state of the organism is monitored by means of receptors, mostly situated in the brain stem.
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It is in internal state o and reads a 0.
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The former stresses the individual's internal state , the latter his or her relations with others.
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The internal state of the cell changes.
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Being explicit about internal state is an obvious advantage to the signaller as well as to the receiver.
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Recall that the internal states of our device are to be finite in number.
structure
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However, the gut in all animals is an internal structure .
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But schemata are more than the behavior; they are the internal structure from which the behavior flows.
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Diagnosis Within the internal structure of the cell, in the cytoplasm, the energetic interactions are weak and electrostatic effects predominate.
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Thin sections show a great variety of internal structures important in accurate identification.
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This policy of renewal was effected by installing a replacement internal structure of load-bearing brick walls and insitu concrete floors.
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The bottom boards showed no sign of the disturbance that would have occurred if anyone had interfered with the internal structures .
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Their organisation and internal structures were normally fluid, even amorphous.
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They focus on the family, analysing both its internal structure and its functions for the wider society.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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internal organs such as the heart or liver
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a computer's internal hard drive
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After the accident, NASA conducted an internal investigation.
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an internal dialogue with himself
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an internal memo
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Each country has the right to control its own internal affairs.
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Guest ordered an internal investigation into the money transfers.
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In November the directors wrote an internal memorandum suggesting that the company should close down three of its factories.
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Many companies use the program for internal accounting purposes.
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Mrs Jones suffered serious internal injuries as a result of the accident.
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Russia faces many internal problems, for example inflation.
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The internal affairs of other nations should not be of concern to us.
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The doctor said they found some signs of internal bleeding.
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The US was accused of interfering in the internal affairs of the country.
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They took him into the internal corridor.
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Western countries have been accused of interfering in Brazil's internal problems.