I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central issue
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Education is a central issue for the government.
a controversial issue/topic/subject
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I tried to avoid controversial topics such as politics and religion.
a crucial issue
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The study of consumer behaviour is a crucial issue in marketing.
a fundamental issue
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This report raises a number of fundamental issues.
a key issue/question/point
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The environment became a key issue during the election.
a moral issue
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a debate on the moral issues surrounding the use of animals in medical research
a policy issue
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He rarely consulted him on general policy issues.
a political issue
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Health care has become a major political issue.
address a problem/question/issue etc
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Our products address the needs of real users.
clarify issues/a statement/matters etc
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Could you clarify one or two points for me?
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Reporters asked him to clarify his position say exactly what his beliefs are on welfare reform.
communiqué...issued
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A communiqué was issued by NATO Defence Ministers.
conservation measures/policies/issues etc
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It is important that nature conservation issues are taken into account.
contemporary issues (= subjects or problems that a lot of people are talking about )
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contemporary issues such as transport and pollution
contentious issue/area/subject etc
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Animal welfare did not become a contentious issue until the late 1970s.
deal with an issue/matter/question
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New laws were introduced to deal with the issue.
discuss the matter/issue formal (= discuss a subject or problem )
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The two leaders met to discuss the issue further.
divisive issue
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The strike was a divisive issue in the community.
dodge an issue/question
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Senator O'Brian skilfully dodged the crucial question.
draw up/issue guidelines
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The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients.
duck...issue
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The ruling body wanted to duck the issue of whether players had been cheating.
emotional issue
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Abortion is a very emotional issue .
emotive issue/subject/word etc
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Child abuse is an emotive subject.
environmental issues
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Environmental issues, such as cliff erosion and pollution, directly affect people’s lives.
ethical issues/questions/problems
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The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions.
evade...issue
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I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue .
fudge...issue
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He tried to fudge the issue by saying that he did not want to specify periods.
gender issues (= ideas and problems related to being male or female )
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Businesses seem to pay more attention to gender issues in senior positions.
give/issue an order
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Do not fire until I give the order.
grant/issue a licence
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He was granted his flying instructor’s licence.
issue a certificate (= officially provide one )
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The certificate will be issued upon payment of the fee.
issue a denial (= deny something publicly or officially )
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Immediately the government issued a denial of the rumours.
issue a description (= formally give a description of someone to the public )
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Police have issued a description of the two men they are looking for.
issue a permit
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Up to ten fishing permits are issued each day.
issue a warning (= officially warn people )
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The government issued a warning about eating raw eggs.
issue an apology (= make an official public apology )
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North Korea issued an official apology for the incident.
issued warrants
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The company issued warrants for 300,000 shares.
issued...decree
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The Emperor issued the decree repealing martial law.
issue/deliver an ultimatum (= officially give someone an ultimatum )
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The authorities issued an ultimatum to the students to end their protest or face arrest.
issued...news release
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The University has issued a news release announcing the results of their experiments.
issued...proclamation
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The authorities issued a proclamation forbidding public meetings.
issued...warrant
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The magistrate issued a warrant for his arrest.
issued...writ
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He issued a writ against the newspaper.
issue/release/put out a statement (= give a written statement to newspapers, TV etc )
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The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a short statement saying the meeting was ‘useful’.
issue...summons
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The judge must issue a summons .
live issue
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Drink-driving is still very much a live issue .
make/issue a threat
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Neighbours say that they heard Gardiner make threats against his wife.
make/issue an announcement
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The next day an announcement was issued to staff, saying the company would be closing.
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The government issued an announcement saying that it was not prepared to negotiate with terrorists.
make/issue/launch an appeal
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Detectives are making an urgent appeal for information.
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The hospital has launched an appeal to raise money for new equipment.
pocketbook issues (= that concern money )
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Older voters are most concerned about pocketbook issues .
resolve an issue/matter/question
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Has the issue been resolved yet?
rights issue
side issue
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The tax proposal is really a side issue with us.
skirted around...issues
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a disappointing speech that skirted around all the main issues
substantive matters/issues
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The State Department reported that substantive discussions had taken place with Beijing.
tackle a problem/issue/question
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The government has failed to tackle the problem of youth crime.
the date of publication/issue/departure etc formal
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The insurance will only cover costs incurred on or after the date of departure.
topical subject/issue/theme etc
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a new TV comedy dealing with topical issues
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The gum on the back of each of the bigger special issues , such as the Christmas stamps, is worth 14.5 calories.
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Multinational firms be-come a big issue .
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What can ethnography tell us about the big issues ?
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That was two years before it became a big civil rights issue .
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The big issue that morning was whether to release feeding stuff from the mills for distribution to the farms.
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What is worse, big issues never stay settled.
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Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder, they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues .
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Trust will be a big , big issue in the campaign.
central
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We here came to a central issue in all our discussions.
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As in my other books, I have used interviews with individuals to explore and illustrate the central issues .
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Drug revelations aside, the claims of exuberant youth versus wily experience will be a central issue .
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The problem called by Mead the central issue of every human society arose: what to do with the males.
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The central issue here is the assumptions about future agricultural technology which are made when assessing tolerable soil losses.
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This identity fear is also the central issue I see working with executives contemplating merging or selling their companies and executive succession.
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But this lofty and detached comment misses the central issues of comparison and equality in penal treatment.
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Balancing the budget is important, but it is not the central issue .
complex
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It is important however to clarify some of the points made in relation to this often complex issue .
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Television generally simplifies complex issues by using specific and dramatic examples to explain a topic.
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The results of this investigation should help to clarify some of the complex issues involved in the debate on gender and schooling.
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Managing creativity has always been a complex issue .
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There are a number of complex issues bound up with this particular matter, ontological and epistemological, practical as well as theoretical.
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Reyes Heroles is well-respected for his ability to quickly grasp complex issues .
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This is a particularly complex issue , largely beyond the scope of this book.
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That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue .
contentious
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Outside the state apparatuses public opinion was becoming increasingly polarized over the contentious issue of greater state powers.
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He was intimately involved with many of the most contentious issues in the three years of design and construction.
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Axworthy pointed to other contentious issues between the two neighbors that require resolution.
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The most contentious issue in the early days of the second session was the collegiality of bishops.
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Hardly ever, except perhaps when focusing on especially contentious and critical issues .
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The most contentious planning issue was perhaps the question of retailing.
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With so much hype surrounding the Internet and its potential for commercial opportunities, market research has been a contentious issue .
current
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By now, probably half the small ads in the current issue had been placed by aliens.
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It organises seminars and educational programmes on a wide range of current issues .
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What do you think is the most important current issue in fishkeeping?
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I still have a copy of Spring 1931 Nonesuch - a much more lighthearted effort than your current issue .
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Students love Streetwise, especially because of the current issues .
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Back to nursing events are not new but are a valuable means of locating nurses and interesting them in current health issues .
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In addition, the automated check-in facility will alert readers to current issues of periodicals as soon as they are processed.
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In the current situation many issues as yet remain unresolved and we do not have all the answers.
economic
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Candidates are therefore required to display a knowledge of business practice and an ability to discuss commercial and economic issues .
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The study of wider social, economic and organisational issues in health care is a major component.
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Coleridge insisted on the interdependence of economic issues and social, moral, and religious concerns.
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Other crucial factors are the distribution of social and economic benefits and issues of accountability.
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The national summarizes complex social and economic issues where the sources of fury are more obvious.
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The participating States stress that the Economic Forum remains the main venue for discussion of economic dimension issues .
environmental
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The region's indigenous peoples demand that they be included in discussion about environmental issues and development.
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The league tabulated votes on 12 key environmental issues in the House and 14 in the Senate.
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He is developing a company called Earthspeak Productions to produce television programmes on all types of environmental issues .
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Perhaps it is not reasonable to expect news reporters to sort fact from fiction when complex environmental issues are at stake.
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Accordingly attention is now turned towards environmental issues in the countryside, beginning with recreation.
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The lawsuit asks a judge to halt the project until environmental issues are sorted out.
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But we're still making much heavier going of getting to grips with these and many other environmental issues than seems justified.
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He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates, particularly on environmental issues .
ethical
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Are we to teach science but never consider the ethical issues ?
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The ethical issue is on the table now.
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New Genetics, New Food New technology is already raising ethical issues for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
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Now there is a patchwork of state legislation enacted to deal with the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information.
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Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues .
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Two, can you come up with some moral principle, some ethical issue that is so important it justifies deception?
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It was not asked to recommend whether hunting should be banned, or to consider moral or ethical issues .
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But none of this alters the ethical issue and the consequent injustice done in 1985.
important
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Let's concentrate on the important , serious issues and spend less time worrying about such matters as the quality of the beer.
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Perhaps the most important issue , however, is the possibility of causing curriculum backwash.
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As futuristic as the concept seems, it addresses here and now one of the most important issues in multimedia development.
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The most important issue was the injustice and violence of the actual verdict.
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Debates over important issues , from nuclear weapons to public ownership, have been settled by manipulation rather than persuasion.
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It didn't matter that all of the important issues were being ignored.
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However, it's a very important issue and must be addressed properly.
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More fundamentally, this preoccupation with numerical aspects may draw attention away from important issues that are more difficult to quantify.
key
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In assessing the suitability of any credit insurance underwriter, companies must be satisfied with a number of key issues .
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The diplomats said problems along the Southwest border will be among the key issues discussed by Bush and Fox at the summit.
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It is, in fact, the amount and type of fat in the diet that is the key issue .
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Traffic, noise and wildlife will be key issues , Collinsworth said.
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Thus the key issue is one of trust.
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There are a variety of designs and sizes, and ergonomists seem to feel that size is one of the key issues .
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The reasons for selling can vary enormously and will affect what the vendor sees as the key issues .
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Everyone was well prepared and focused on the key issues .
late
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The latest issue of the San Francisco magazine Might includes instructions for bathroom attendants who want to boost their tips.
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Company magazine backs a campaign and petition to keep all brands of the Pill available free on prescription in its latest issue .
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J., who reported their results in the latest issue of the journal Science.
main
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He argues that the main issue is not being addressed.
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But the main issue is that this could be fatal.
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It is true that some opponents of the Government saw rearmament as the main issue - notably Churchill.
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One of the main issues today is the future of young people.
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The November campaign was, if anything, a bit too earnest, with education the main issue .
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The main issue , they say, is safety.
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Other resistances or blocks to communication can be more than an initial reluctance to talk about the main issues .
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The main issue of interest to Catholic school headteachers and staff was the evaluation of the Catholic school.
major
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But it's becoming a major issue as landfill sites fill up.
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Observers had predicted that regardless of the winner in the special election, the council would be divided 3-2 on major issues .
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Technology transfer was also recognized as a major issue .
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Does the political leadership act with unanimity on all major issues ? 2.
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Two major theoretical issues underlie the reality of health care provision for older people.
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Morale would be a major issue , and Steve was known for his strong interest in people.
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A major issue in hypermedia, however, is the danger of users getting lost among the complex network of multimedia nodes.
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There is also agreement about many major issues which need to be addressed.
other
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For the while the war went on. Other issues and events now came to complicate events.
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Thus while the original concern was not dealt with, other issues which had been raised earlier were.
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History of the share capital including details of any bonus, rights or other issues . 11.
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These and other similarly familiar issues are examined in chapter 4 in the light of changing international circumstance.
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Social workers need to weigh up its importance alongside other issues where they may have a greater contribution.
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However, there are a number of other issues to consider in this context 1.
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Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues .
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A number of questions are opened up concerning rights, obligations and other kinship issues .
political
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It is not a political issue about women sharing a function hitherto assigned to men.
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And his family is deeply unhappy and divided over political and social issues of the day.
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The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue .
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Thus it can be the grounds for greater tolerance and wiser value judgments about normative political issues .
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As part of this study, we listened at length to adolescent schoolchildren discussing political issues .
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Age-sensitive political issues such as Social Security and Medicare will play a major role in the campaign, of course.
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It became ever more difficult to prevent public discussion of political issues .
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If nothing else, Amlee points out, the recall showed that in Tucson, water is a very political issue .
real
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At the very least, it would mean that the real issues are debated rather than the trivial detail of statistics and history.
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The real issue for Columbus was the size of the sea, not the shape of the Earth.
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Clearly they each believed there was a real issue , and that the other was intelligent enough to pursue it.
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In that crisis, was Bizerta the real issue , or was it mutually wounded pride?
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More importantly, it was regarded as a distraction from the real issues of environment and development.
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The real issue , they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.
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But there is a real issue: in whose custodial territory does software fall?
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But he was avoiding the real issue , and he knew it.
sensitive
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This is a sensitive issue on which many wax indignant.
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The development programme is also a sensitive issue .
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Weight remains a sensitive issue for Engler, who is constantly fighting a sometimes serious battle of the bulge.
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And being able to discuss sensitive issues with strangers while retaining a comfortable degree of anonymity often makes for startlingly intimate communication.
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Encourage employees to adopt a problem-solving attitude when discussing sensitive issues .
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How can teachers be supported to help them deal with sensitive issues ?
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This has emerged as a sensitive issue because it involves the Red Cross, which normally conducts the visits.
social
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In most modern societies, parties have key positions on economic and social issues or on constitutional matters.
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In college I became more conscious of social issues , and that expanded at law school.
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It helps me relax after a hard day's rapping about controversial political and social issues .
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A separate report on social issues , by the Labatt Anderson consulting firm, is expected to be issued later this year.
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Environmental reporting emphasizes individual action rather than underlying social forces and issues .
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The 1980s were a decade in which many social issues came to the fore.
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Those are the kinds of broader social issues raised in the articles in this Section of the Reader.
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On high-profile Republican social issues , Forbes tends to adopt a libertarian respect for privacy.
wide
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It is clear, however, that Beveridge paid scant attention to these wider issues .
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A wide range of issues determine how a neighborhood fares -- location, school district, income levels and even airport noise.
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Spending resources before financial deadlines has come to dominate the administration of Partnerships and Programme Authorities, instead of wider strategic issues .
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Over the past decade, he has made statements, often provocative, about a wide variety of issues .
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For them, wider issues are involved.
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But from where I stand, it is the wider issue of transparency that really counts.
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But wider issues are at stake.
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The second innovation is more interesting and raises wider issues .
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policy
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The programme will conclude with a multi-country study of policy issues and policy processes in at least three of the countries studied.
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Roles of the Legislature Legislatures have always been structures in which policy issues are discussed and assessed.
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The third policy issue is of a nature more specific to management development.
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For many countries where free speech is alien, the Internet presents interesting problems and policy issues .
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With the current economics of nuclear power, this should prove to be a relatively straight forward policy issue .
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Answer: many policy issues admit to no immediately-obvious solution.
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There may be important public policy issues which dictate that the implied terms as to quality should extend even to private sellers.
■ VERB
address
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Also, I wanted to address the issue in a celebratory way, to take the fear out of the issue.
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But with the significant exception of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, few prominent Republicans have addressed those issues in recent months.
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More recent evidence, whilst not addressing this issue directly, tends to suggest that this desired relationship is still important.
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You have to continually be pro-active to address issues of racism.
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We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind.
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Before exploring this suggestion further, it will be necessary to address certain issues that I have glossed over.
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The present arrangements for approving and monitoring private care don't address any of these issues .
avoid
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So he made a go of permanently avoiding the issue .
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They can avoid discussing the important issues by keeping us out of the debates.
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Mr Kundera was strongly attacked for his view, and Mr Duroselle appears to be avoiding the issue .
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But he was avoiding the real issue , and he knew it.
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Beccaria's attempt to avoid the issue while retaining the conception of tree will was, perhaps, asking for trouble.
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Instead, the agency now avoids guidelines on the issue altogether and simply states the lack of scientific evidence.
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This is not just avoiding violence - it is simply avoiding the issue .
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Rylander, whose re-election this year is opposed by Democrat Hector Uribe, avoided those issues .
become
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It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion.
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Rather, personality and celebrity become the issues .
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But from then until 1917 it became an issue of major importance.
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In his role as conservative leader, Scott has become active in other issues on the Columbia campus.
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This became a central issue in opposition to new housing since population growth as such was something of a red-herring.
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In a backwards kind of way, it became the decisive issue in the race.
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In the latter case every change tends to become a pay issue and another bureaucratic burden on the organization.
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This became a national issue focussing on the proposed mining of gold on Croagh Patrick in Co.
consider
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It is perhaps particularly appropriate to consider tourism in an issue of the magazine whose theme is writers.
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It is appropriate here, however, to consider briefly the treatment issue of moderation goals.
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Are we to teach science but never consider the ethical issues ?
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The justices today agreed to consider the issue in connection with two similar federal drug prosecutions.
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Court of Appeals judges considered the bias issue and also raised concerns about technical aspects of Jackson's ruling.
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He argues for the coordination of agencies involved in supporting young people and considers the major issues these agencies need to address.
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Or consider the issue of vacuous names, names that do not name anything.
deal
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Commentary articles deal with issues in, or arising from, research that are also of interest to readers outside research.
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So he says dealing with issues of race is unavoidable.
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It has partner organisations in the developing world dealing with the issue at grassroots level.
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Students therefore have developed their own methods of dealing with the issue .
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Thus while the original concern was not dealt with, other issues which had been raised earlier were.
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It deals with issues of humiliation, bitterness, pride and redemption.
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These plans could deal with general issues and advise on practice of specific relevance to particular Departments.
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On Friday, the network substituted different reruns for those weeks because each episode peripherally dealt with crime-related issues .
decide
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It would be deciding the issue in advance, if she took it.
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El Paso voters decided the issue only once, 10 years ago.
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But it was the horses which decided the issue , as Ramsay had calculated they would.
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Some teachers were aware that they could now contribute to decision-making but still saw the head as deciding all the issues .
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But late last month, Eckels said he wanted voters to have to decide the issue .
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A tribunal is given authority to decide upon a particular issue .
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The appeals court decides issues of law and not fact.
discuss
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I commend his outlook to the House when we discuss issues relating to the social charter.
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The city council met, discussed the issue , and eventually voted to go ahead.
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Konstantin Morozov, exchanged visits on Jan. 14 and 27-28, to discuss security issues and a future treaty on good-neighbourly relations.
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At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group.
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Unfortunately, it arrived right after our Work Group has met and discussed issues related to its inclusion or exclusion.
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My purpose rather is to discuss the underlying issues in general terms and at a somewhat philosophic level.
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These are not the first videos to discuss health issues , but he believes they are the first by an independent source.
raise
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It will inevitably raise issues about the transparency and accountability of a political system that has changed little since the postwar settlement.
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And the license was denied, though not on the grounds we cited, because our argument raised constitutional issues .
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But the controversy released an avalanche of words and raised issues that are still being discussed by academics and journalists.
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The Bush proposal for annual testing raises other issues .
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The attacks raise several issues of policy.
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In their statements, these organizations contributed ideas and raised issues of concern for participating States to take into consideration.
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Readability of pictures Consideration of the readability of pictures immediately raises the issue of the intended audience.
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But it raises a more serious issue .
resolve
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The Profitboss will always investigate the complaint, putting personal time, effort and resource into resolving the issue .
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In theory, network operators could target consumers with advertising, but this would raise technical and privacy issues not easily resolved .
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The Conservative government resolved the issue by statute.
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It is by no means easy to resolve such issues , and we can provide no firm solutions here.
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We believe the key to customer satisfaction is to provide speedy access to those best placed to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
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Teachers can encourage children to resolve issues themselves and develop autonomy.
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The idea of putting warning labels on drinks packaging is a simplistic and ineffective attempt to resolve a complex issue .
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In the same way, the size of the PacTel vote provides an incentive for the company to resolve this issue .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hot issue/topic etc
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Aphid insecticide resistance-a hot topic for beet and potato growers as well as horticulturalists.
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Despite the ominous thunder of global war, the date on which to observe Thanksgiving was a hot issue.
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Friday, 29 years after he was slain by a single rifle shot, his assassination is once again a hot topic.
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Military service was a hot topic at Oxford in the mid-1950s, too.
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Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings.
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Salah had succeeded in creating a hot issue.
a thorny question/problem/issue etc
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In addition, sending encrypted data over international boundaries represents a thorny issue: it is still illegal in some countries.
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Melding the top managements also would be a thorny issue.
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None of these struck me as particularly penetrating answers to a thorny problem.
back issue/copy/number
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A little later Bacon appeared, walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers.
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Anyway, I thought you ought to know you have your reader back , and I enclose £4 for 4 back issues.
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Lifelong readers who kept the back issues piled in their attics renewed their subscriptions like clockwork at the five-year rate.
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Mackey had seen handbooks on guerrilla tactics, back issues of a racist magazine Guy published.
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My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s.
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Six issues cost $ 39, and new and back issues are available.
burning issue/question
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Another burning issue is unfair dismissal.
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But the burning question is: How many times a day do kids wander in looking to buy rolling papers?
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It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion.
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Quality, of design and typography rather than editorial matter, is a burning issue as far as desktop publishing is concerned.
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The burning question is - how soon?
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The star trek is over for today, but the burning questions are still unanswered.
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Transmission has always been the burning issue for scientists interested in studying this epidemic.
cloud the issue/picture etc
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These comments should not be allowed to cloud the picture too much.
confuse the issue/matter/argument etc
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His reply was inpart denial of the criticisms, and inpart an attempt to change the issue or confuse the matter.
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Making comparisons between brains is a very risky business because there are confounding variables to confuse the issue.
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Perceptions, such as hers, distort the truth and confuse the issue.
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The Catholic arguments confuse the issue, but this time, for all the wrong reasons, the Pope is infallible.
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The politicians, on the lookout for arguments to extend their authoritarianism, jumped at this opportunity to confuse the issue.
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This attempt to confuse the issue went unanswered, and Santa Anna continued his preparations to advance on the capital.
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This will only serve to confuse the issue.
force the issue
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What you are asking your tenants to do is reasonable, but you may decide not to force the issue.
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And he did; he forced the issue.
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At a minimum, they can force the issue back on to the political agenda and make Republicans publicly address the subject again.
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But I was too tired now to force the issue.
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He never tried to force the issue.
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If you attempt to force the issue, you are told that this was another one of your dumb ideas.
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In early spring, 1861, the new Confederate government decided to force the issue.
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Time was getting tight on both projects, so I had to force the issue with him.
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.
muddy the waters/the issue
sidestep a problem/issue/question
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But she sidesteps a question about her priorities in a time of limited funding.
the larger issues/question/problem/picture
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But the larger picture is systematically distorted by the military and political calculations concerning the strategic uses of information and disinformation.
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Here we are concerned with the larger problem of the relationship between men as a class and other animals as a class.
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It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.
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Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.
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She was blind to the larger picture that involves building and maintaining good relationships with both fellow-workers and superiors.
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That ignorance is at the root of geophysicists' struggle with the larger problem of how the whole earth works.
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Too much, and the larger picture might become apparent.
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You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting.
the wider context/issues/picture etc
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As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.
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Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.
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It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
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More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.
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That fact must be put in the wider context.
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The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
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We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.
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What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?
vexed question/issue/problem etc
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A paradigm example of this is the vexed question of spatial visualisation.
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And there is another vexed question.
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I shall not turn to the vexed question of the national minimum wage.
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Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights.
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The vexed question has always been: Who should write the programs which control these machines?
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Then there is the vexed issue of paying for tax cuts.
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Until recently what was on the child's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question.
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Was the vexed question of extradition discussed at the Council?
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a book dealing with environmental issues
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Genetic manipulation is a fairly topical issue these days.
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Global warming and youth crime are the key issues in the election campaign.
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the issue of a driver's license
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the issue of drugs in sports
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the immigration issue
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this week's issue of "Newsweek"
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We'll be looking at a broad range of important issues in this chapter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another key issue is the choosing of appropriate neural network architecture and paradigms to match applications.
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Chapters 9 and 10 deal with issues directly linked to scaling laws in chemistry and analytical devices.
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Election campaign A key issue during the campaign was taxation.
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In the grander sense, an issue basic to the progress of science.
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Mr Wolfowitz is viewed as a hawk on many defence issues.
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One of the issues in his last re- election campaign was that his eyelids frequently drooped during meetings.
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So he says dealing with issues of race is unavoidable.
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The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
apology
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On Monday, Stanford athletic director Ted Leland issued the written apology in response to numerous complaints about the performance.
appeal
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He also issued an appeal to all citizens to participate in political liberalization and in the development of the country.
arrest
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Police have issued an arrest warrant for Mr de Michelis's former secretary, Barbara Ceolin.
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They also issued an arrest warrant for a fourth worker.
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Three people were arrested and warrants were issued for the arrest of other members of the group who were abroad.
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A judge in Seoul issued the arrest warrants after union leaders ignored three court orders this week to appear for questioning.
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A warrant has been issued for his arrest .
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What he said is, he refused or declined to issue an arrest warrant.
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A warrant was issued for his arrest . 90 jobs lost A children's clothes factory is to make 90 workers redundant.
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When a warrant was issued for his arrest , the Hue and Cry listed among his friends four headmen and an ex-headman.
bank
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Several goldsmiths developed into fully fledged banks and issued banknotes.
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There is a good boat and up to ten bank fishing permits are issued each day.
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For example, the manager of the Oldham branch of a clearing bank can not issue instructions to employees in the Huddersfield branch.
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How is it that banks issue certain types of Credit which they expect will never be drawn on?
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One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders' funds.
bill
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Yesterday the Department issued its student loans bill .
cards
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The truth is that neither applicant actually wants to issue Switch cards , though Barclays says it is prepared to consider it.
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Now more companies issue cards and many are willing to cut rates or waive annual fees to snare each others' customers.
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The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze.
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The U. S. Olympic Committee issued baseball-style trading cards .
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As we saw earlier, societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards .
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They created an administrative grill, issuing identity cards to families, partly to control them and partly to streamline tax collection.
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To draw attention to the hospitality provided at his inn Freeth issued printed invitation cards , written in verse.
certificate
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On the day Wendy was to go home a woman came to issue a birth certificate for the baby.
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The government's gold and diamond office in Freetown will issue the certificates .
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The parties are under no contractual obligation to allow each other to make representations to the auditor before he issues his certificate .
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Firms issuing false certificates might be subject to lawsuits, but these are expensive.
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In view of the importance of the competences concerned, we will issue separate certificates for the units.
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These laboratories are then authorised to issue formal certificates and reports for specific types of measurement and tests.
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They issue certificates of deposits, often based on fictitious assets such as bogus gold mines.
court
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Magistrates made a commitment order against him and asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.
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She said he had not complied with a court order, issued in late 1993, to pay her.
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The court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor, usually by post.
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The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.
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Only 112 county court claims were issued in the week as opposed to around 1,000 the week before, she added.
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The court is expected to issue a decision in the case before the Fourth of July.
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Dunn should then have returned his reply to the court that issued the summons.
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The high court should issue a decision by July.
declaration
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Schafer could issue a state disaster declaration and request a Presidential Disaster Declaration as soon as Friday.
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Department of Agriculture could issue its own declaration .
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Instead, they issued the Potsdam Declaration , calling again for unconditional surrender on pain of great destruction.
decree
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Presidential decrees enacting reform Gorbachev used his emergency presidential powers to issue during October four decrees marking critical steps towards market reform.
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In Britain, Heath utilized the energy crisis to issue a decree in December imposing a three-day workweek on most industries.
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Nine days later, President Blaise Compaoré issued decrees bringing the Constitution into immediate effect, and dissolving the government.
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In December 1785 Joseph 11 issued an imperial decree limiting the number of Viennese lodges to three.
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The President could issue decrees which would be binding throughout the country.
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In Savoy as elsewhere, it was one thing to issue a decree and another to make it effective.
denial
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The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
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Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of Inkatha, on June 9 issued a denial of the allegations.
document
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To help expatriates overcome differences in culture, their employers should issue them with briefing documents covering various points of concern.
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Nice refused to comment, beyond acknowledging that it had issued a confidential consultation document .
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The organising committee has also issued a tender document calling for designs for the mascot of the games.
government
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After all, the government issued those bonds in prior years.
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Yet the Mugabe government repeatedly issues public death threats against its foes.
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The government issued a ban on public demonstrations; the students defied it and began to boycott classes.
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Nobbs argues that the problem has been compounded because the government hasn't issued any planning advice to guide the industry.
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Regional governments have started to issue their own kinds of surrogate money.
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Will the Government issue clear guidance on which responsibilities will fall to health authorities and which to social services?
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To address that problem the government will still issue dollar-denominated figures alongside the indexes.
guidelines
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Age Concern believes that the Department of Health should develop a policy and issue national guidelines on the provision of such care.
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It is odd that these harsh criticisms were issued before the guidelines were completed and publicly declared.
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The Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union has issued guidelines to their 600,000 members telling them how to tackle the problem.
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The Centers for Disease Control will soon issue new guidelines to deal with emerging strains of vancomycin-resistant staph.
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The Inspectorate is considering issuing tighter guidelines on the matter.
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Beginning in 1980 the Agriculture and Health departments have issued dietary guidelines every five years, based on the latest scientific evidence.
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Well before then, I would hope that we can issue interim guidelines for comment.
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The interior ministry has issued guidelines and practical advice.
instruction
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Most preschool children are well able to issue instructions .
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Based on the reports, he said he issued immediate instructions .
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The State Committee's resolution was issued on Yeltsin's instruction .
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After issuing instructions to Edelstein, Clanahan, and Boyd, the President adjourned the meeting until noon.
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Our policy is that Information memoranda should be issued only on the instruction of the disposing entity.
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For example, the manager of the Oldham branch of a clearing bank can not issue instructions to employees in the Huddersfield branch.
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They will then issue instructions as to the action you should take.
invitation
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Once you have issued the invitation it is important to make sure that the photographers will be able to do their job.
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It was unclear who issued the invitation to Wynn.
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It will, however, be trespass if she had no authority to issue that invitation .
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She sent Talivaldis to the store for a large loaf of Wonder Bread and knocked on doors, issuing invitations .
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Nigel decided to leave things a few weeks then issue an invitation to dinner.
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To draw attention to the hospitality provided at his inn Freeth issued printed invitation cards, written in verse.
key
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Every day we help clients-usually Fortune 500 types-do a better job in managing people, in resolving key people issues .
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That last point is a key issue for Grasso.
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The delivery of Central Arizona Project water was a key issue in the election.
letter
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Professional legal advice should be sought by the Firm before issuing such an engagement letter .
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An importer gets his own bank to guarantee payment by issuing a letter of credit.
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As there are no plans to examine, the council is not obliged to issue any formal letter of approval.
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The parent company has issued a legally-binding letter of support to the subsidiary.
licence
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It called on ministers to set up a firearms control board which would vet all applicants before issuing a guns licence .
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Less than four hours before the scheduled start, the local fire brigade refused to issue a safety licence for the arena.
note
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Two-and five-year Treasury notes are issued monthly.
notice
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Late yesterday, Fimbra issued a suspension notice preventing the company from taking any investments and freezing existing client funds.
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The authority may issue a second reminder notice , but it is under no obligation to do so.
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I carefully considered the information before me before deciding to issue the notice .
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However, the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them.
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You will be issued with penalty notices and the amounts due will be shown on your self-assessment statements.
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If within two years of that warning there is a second inaccuracy in the return, Customs will issue a penalty notice .
order
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Some pretty quick action had taken place and she had no doubt at all as to who had been issuing orders .
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Maturity is important to a leader because leading is not simply showing the way or issuing orders .
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Given the value of experienced seamen in a war, has a navy ever issued orders forbidding it?
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Debes gave them an additional forty-five minutes, then issued the order .
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Creative people can be hostile to research, and your findings should be tactfully presented and not issued as orders .
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A judge issued a temporary restraining order .
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And they issued destruction orders against all the animals he kept there.
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At 12: 09 a. m., Calderon issued the execution order .
paper
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To do so, they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like.
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Disney will pay $ 2 billion in cash, and will raise the other $ 8 billion by issuing short-term commercial paper .
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Virani was able to issue more and more paper in order to finance bigger and bigger deals.
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Second, they lend the money provided by those savers to borrowers, who may issue a paper asset in return.
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B'Tselem has issued a policy paper opposing the reintroduction of physical interrogation techniques.
permit
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The county Department of Environmental Quality is slated to issue an air-quality permit decision sometime this month.
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Throughout all of Texas' 254 counties, only 150 black men and 13 black women have been issued permits .
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This is what I think -- that one or two inspectors were very reluctant to issue permits .
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Then the Park District flatly refused to issue them a permit .
police
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A statement issued by Staffordshire police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the sergeant's death.
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Recent statistics issued by the Metropolitan Police indicated that a quarter of all serious crimes in Greater London are committed by school-children.
policy
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It also issued a detailed policy statement.
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After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.
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They come into effect next month and we shall issue planning policy guidance later this month.
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According to the state Insurance Department, insurers accounting for 95 percent of the homeowners market no longer issue new policies .
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We have made that clear ever since 1989 when we issued our policy statement.
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The Council's power to issue policy recommendations under stage two has been in existence since the convergence decision in 1974.
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B'Tselem has issued a policy paper opposing the reintroduction of physical interrogation techniques.
press
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Then it canceled the mill anyway and issued a press release blaming the workers.
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Prescott could have done something easy, like hold a new conference or issue a press release.
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The Department of the Environment immediately issued a furious press release accusing the Chron of distorting the facts.
proclamation
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He issued proclamations and charters in his own name, and promoted his relatives to high office.
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In response, President Fillmore issued a proclamation asking citizens to cease interfering with law enforcement officers.
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Taylor refused compensation, to the amazement of the mandarins, who issued proclamations applauding the spirit of the Christians.
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On June 18, Herrera issued a proclamation to the people concerning the revolt of Parades and encouraging them to stand fast.
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But she had also issued a proclamation forbidding all preaching and teaching.
report
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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
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Nearly a decade later, our educational system was no better off than it had been when the commission issued its report .
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Meanwhile, Bath were issuing a reminder that reports of their decline were a little premature.
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Officials said the panel will issue an initial report by Sept. 30, 1997.
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Accentuating their lack of agreement, Moscow and Stockholm issued separate reports on the case.
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Clinton also issued a federal report showing 65 percent of public schools have access to the Internet.
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Auditors normally issue a report which is a statement used as a preface to the financial statements of a company.
security
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Without the sale of company securities , other things being equal, the public sector would have had to issue government securities.
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Likewise, airlines issue those lists to security personnel at airports which allow only ticketed passengers beyond the security checkpoint.
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Rhone-Poulenc pioneered a technique for raising cash by issuing exotic securities which have the quality of both debt and equity.
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Banks are issuing a stream of securities backed by mortgages, credit-card receivables and other assets stripped off their balance sheets.
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As the civil servants are not party members, they have not been issued with security passes.
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If a listed bidder is proposing to issue its own securities as consideration under the scheme then listing particulars may be required.
share
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Many public companies have issued non-voting A ordinary shares .
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A stock price may shift if the firm issues additional shares .
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It requests that an authority for market purchases should not normally exceed 10 percent of the company's issued ordinary share capital.
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Tenneco plans to spin off its shipbuilding unit by issuing separately traded shares in a new shipbuilding company to Tenneco shareholders.
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Sometimes owners had to promise not to issue new shares for two more years.
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Disney plans to issue 155 million shares of new stock for Capital Cities shareholders.
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It required the full disclosure of the condition of any firm wishing to issue new shares .
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The number of shares in issue may be increased if shares are issued pursuant to the share option scheme. 2.
standard
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Gauges are issued as reference standards only.
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No such cost-benefit requirement exists when issuing health standards under the Clean Air Act, the court ruled.
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When issued , these standards must be applied to joined or repaired aquariums.
statement
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The statement issued by Mr Ismail Ayob also denied some aspects of the latest allegations against her.
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The statement was issued by leading bishops following an emergency meeting of the Holy Synod in Belgrade.
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A statement was issued finally repudiating the Nestorian position and affirming the Orthodox position.
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A statement issued by the U. S. Embassy gave no details of her medical condition Tuesday or any prognosis for her recovery.
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Mr Christie would say only that a club statement would be issued later.
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Coleman said in a statement that was issued Monday along with the report card.
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The statement was issued after Miss Pollard refused to publish a retraction.
summons
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The statement said that, having considered the application, the magistrates had refused to issue the summons .
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The court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor, usually by post.
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Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons .
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Dunn should then have returned his reply to the court that issued the summons .
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It is still necessary to issue a summons for directions in an admiralty or medical negligence case.
threat
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Yet the Mugabe government repeatedly issues public death threats against its foes.
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The greater its dependence on others, the less its ability to issue credible threats or to mobilise for sustained hostilities.
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It was only by issuing rather unconvincing threats of his disapproval that Peggy could keep the girl in line.
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For one sweaty moment I was sure it would be Famlio, about to issue dire threats and promises.
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His favourite line of attack was to start talking about finding useful employment for Vincent, and to issue veiled threats .
ticket
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Chaplin's also issued railway tickets .
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They can be issued traffic and parking tickets , and the State Department can revoke their vehicle registration or license.
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But they had been issued with first class tickets .
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Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system.
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If I buy a bus ticket for two persons, I am issued separate tickets.
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The organiser of the chosen rally should issue a ticket to their event free of charge, in exchange for the voucher.
ultimatum
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And now he had issued an ultimatum .
visa
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The Interior Ministry has been tipped off about companies issuing fake visas .
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Under the agreement, two nominally private organizations were established to issue visas and represent the interests of the two governments.
warning
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It is, however, hard to make a recommendation to read this fine offering by Boyd without issuing a warning .
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In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers.
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Police in Essex and Kent issued flood warnings for yesterday afternoon's high tide and further problems were expected later.
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Other companies issuing profit warnings or unexpectedly weak earnings included Hutchison Technology Inc., down 6 to 36 1 / 2.
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So for the moment nothing could be done beyond issuing a warning .
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Where a statement is found to be incorrect, Customs will issue a warning .
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Anyone who has encountered a skunk will know that before it fires its stinking spray it issues clear warnings of its intentions.
warrant
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They issued a warrant for his arrest, and that same night we took off for Colorado.
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Police have issued an arrest warrant for Mr de Michelis's former secretary, Barbara Ceolin.
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They also issued an arrest warrant for a fourth worker.
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A judge has now issued a warrant for his arrest.
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A judge in Seoul issued the arrest warrants after union leaders ignored three court orders this week to appear for questioning.
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She could not be issued with a warrant for her visit.
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What he said is, he refused or declined to issue an arrest warrant .
writ
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We then issued a writ and proceedings ensued.
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He issued a writ claiming damages for wrongful dismissal.
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They are expected to be issued with a writ tomorrow giving them two weeks to leave the premises.
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On 15 July 1987, the Woolwich issued a writ to recover the capital sum and interest thereon.
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The negotiations dragged on and in the end I was constrained to issue a writ .
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It libelled the plaintiff who issued a writ against the editor.
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It plans to issue a protective writ but is hoping to achieve a settlement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hot issue/topic etc
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Aphid insecticide resistance-a hot topic for beet and potato growers as well as horticulturalists.
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Despite the ominous thunder of global war, the date on which to observe Thanksgiving was a hot issue.
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Friday, 29 years after he was slain by a single rifle shot, his assassination is once again a hot topic.
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Military service was a hot topic at Oxford in the mid-1950s, too.
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Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings.
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Salah had succeeded in creating a hot issue.
a thorny question/problem/issue etc
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In addition, sending encrypted data over international boundaries represents a thorny issue: it is still illegal in some countries.
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Melding the top managements also would be a thorny issue.
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None of these struck me as particularly penetrating answers to a thorny problem.
back issue/copy/number
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A little later Bacon appeared, walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers.
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Anyway, I thought you ought to know you have your reader back , and I enclose £4 for 4 back issues.
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Lifelong readers who kept the back issues piled in their attics renewed their subscriptions like clockwork at the five-year rate.
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Mackey had seen handbooks on guerrilla tactics, back issues of a racist magazine Guy published.
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My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s.
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Six issues cost $ 39, and new and back issues are available.
burning issue/question
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Another burning issue is unfair dismissal.
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But the burning question is: How many times a day do kids wander in looking to buy rolling papers?
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It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion.
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Quality, of design and typography rather than editorial matter, is a burning issue as far as desktop publishing is concerned.
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The burning question is - how soon?
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The star trek is over for today, but the burning questions are still unanswered.
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Transmission has always been the burning issue for scientists interested in studying this epidemic.
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.
the larger issues/question/problem/picture
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But the larger picture is systematically distorted by the military and political calculations concerning the strategic uses of information and disinformation.
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Here we are concerned with the larger problem of the relationship between men as a class and other animals as a class.
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It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.
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Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.
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She was blind to the larger picture that involves building and maintaining good relationships with both fellow-workers and superiors.
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That ignorance is at the root of geophysicists' struggle with the larger problem of how the whole earth works.
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Too much, and the larger picture might become apparent.
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You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting.
the wider context/issues/picture etc
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As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.
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Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.
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It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
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More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.
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That fact must be put in the wider context.
▪
The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
▪
We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.
▪
What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?
vexed question/issue/problem etc
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A paradigm example of this is the vexed question of spatial visualisation.
▪
And there is another vexed question.
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I shall not turn to the vexed question of the national minimum wage.
▪
Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights.
▪
The vexed question has always been: Who should write the programs which control these machines?
▪
Then there is the vexed issue of paying for tax cuts.
▪
Until recently what was on the child's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question.
▪
Was the vexed question of extradition discussed at the Council?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Blankets and warm clothes will be issued to those who need them.
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Every soldier is issued a rifle.
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Police in Britain are not usually issued with guns.
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The State Department will issue a statement at noon.
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Visitors are issued with identity cards to wear inside the factory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although San Marcos may have been the first city in the county to issue such bonds, San Diego was right behind.
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But they have yet to decide whether they will be issued automatically or if customers will have to order them.
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No formal invites to tender had been issued as FlyPast closed for press.
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The summons must contain the name of one witness only, but may be issued in blank.
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The truth is that neither applicant actually wants to issue Switch cards, though Barclays says it is prepared to consider it.
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Thus, the range discount cards issued by Golf Corp. are still being honored, but none are being sold.