adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a financial/commercial/legal etc footing
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The firm started the new year on a stronger financial footing.
a financial/legal/religious etc matter
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This is a legal matter and should be discussed with a solicitor.
a legal agreement
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The golf club is also offering to enter into a legal agreement with local residents.
a legal code (= rules decided by law )
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the legal code on the use of pesticides
a legal duty
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Employers have a legal duty to ensure the safety of their workforce.
a legal immigrant
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Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.
a legal limit (= a limit set by law )
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The alcohol in his blood was four times more than the legal limit.
a legal loophole
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The new law closed a number of legal loopholes.
a legal minefield
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the legal minefield of buying a house overseas
a legal precedent (= one that is important in law and so must be followed in legal cases )
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There are several legal precedents for this.
a legal procedure
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Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926.
a legal right
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Banks have the legal right to recover their money.
a legal/mathematical/marketing etc concept
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Democracy is a very important political concept.
a legal/medical term
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The site provides a glossary of legal terms.
a legal/political/technical etc obstacle
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Despite technical obstacles, scientists at NASA are considering the project.
a legal/statutory requirement
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There is no legal requirement to carry identity papers.
a medical/legal/financial etc expert (= someone who has special skills related to a particular job or subject )
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Medical experts agree that screening can prevent deaths from breast cancer.
a moral/legal/social obligation
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We have a moral obligation to take care of our environment.
a political/legal dispute
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There was a long legal dispute between the two companies.
a teaching/medical/legal etc qualification BrE:
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She has a degree and a teaching qualification.
bring a legal action
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Justice Mayor ruled that she cannot bring a legal action for damages against the plaintiff.
face legal action
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The council demanded that we remove the posters, or face legal action.
financial/legal/economic etc constraints
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During the war, there were many physical and social constraints on citizens.
for legal/political/medical etc reasons
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The boy cannot be named for legal reasons.
from a legal point of view
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It's a fascinating case, from a legal point of view.
lawful/legal means
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Their protests will continue, but only by legal means.
legal action
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The singer threatened legal action against the magazine.
legal aid
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If you are on a low income, you may qualify for legal aid.
legal aid
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They have been granted legal aid and now intend to take their case to court.
legal authority
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US agents have legal authority to bring criminals back from overseas.
legal expertise
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His father, also a lawyer, used his legal expertise to help civil rights groups.
legal guardian
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His aunt is his legal guardian .
legal help
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You can find free legal help for your problem by logging onto our website.
legal holiday
legal implications
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We have taken advice on the legal implications of our activities.
legal liability (= responsibility for something that is covered by laws )
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What is the legal liability of an employer in the event of an accident at work?
legal limitations (= limitations because of law )
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Certain legal limitations are placed on the scope of Parliament's power.
legal pad
legal proceedings
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He wanted to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings.
legal system
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the British legal system
legal tender
legal work (= work done by lawyers )
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He will handle all the legal work.
legal wrangle
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He was involved in a long legal wrangle with his employers.
legal/bureaucratic/administrative hassle
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It took weeks of bureaucratic hassle to get a replacement passport.
legal/medical assistance
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It was difficult to get good legal assistance.
legal/medical expenses
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We had to get a loan to pay for my husband’s medical expenses.
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The tenant can incur considerable legal expenses.
legal/medical fees
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She received £300 compensation after legal fees had been deducted.
legal/medical/financial etc advice
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Good legal advice can be expensive.
legal/political/economic etc ramifications
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the environmental ramifications of the road-building program
medical/legal practitioner
medical/legal secretary
on moral/legal/medical etc grounds
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The proposal was rejected on environmental grounds.
scientific/logical/legal reasoning
take legal action
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He is within his rights to take legal action.
technical/legal/political barriers
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Most of the technical barriers have been solved.
technical/scientific/legal/medical etc jargon
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documents full of legal jargon
the legal age
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In the US, the legal age for drinking alcohol is 21.
the legal definition of sth
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What is the legal definition of manslaughter?
the legal establishment
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Prominent members of the legal establishment have opposed the bill.
the legal position (= the situation from a legal point of view )
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The legal position is far from clear.
the legal profession
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He followed his father into the legal profession.
the legal/statutory minimum (= the least amount the law says you must have )
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The wage was often well below the legal minimum.
the political/legal/educational etc system
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The country is rightly proud of its legal system.
the statutory/legal maximum (= one set by law )
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The legal maximum for election contributions was $1,000.
writing/sketch/memo/legal etc pad
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a box of paints and a sketch pad
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Keep a telephone pad and a pen to hand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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There was some question of possible legal action in the past, but this has been resolved.
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Kip and I were lucky the legal actions that could have been taken against us were not.
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Section 47 imposes a positive duty on investigating authorities to see the child and to take legal action if access is denied.
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Entrepreneurs learn to avoid legal actions that can take their time as well as their money.
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If they refuse to go, Jansen faces legal action .
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Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.
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Apparently now even the mildest criticism is to be followed by the threat of legal action .
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Her role is simply to assist union members in taking certain specified types of legal action against their trade union.
advice
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Parents or others with child care problems may also need legal advice .
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The two older children had no legal advice .
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Male speaker On legal advice i resigned.
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In either case it is advisable to seek professional legal advice .
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The legal advice is part of a smokescreen being put up to hide its intentions and its concern.
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In certain areas law centres, staffed by professional lawyers and advisers, offer a good free legal advice service.
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This broadly relates to communications between lawyer and client either in relation to the giving of legal advice or in contemplation of legal proceedings.
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But said he would be seeking legal advice over the original ban.
aid
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Application must be made to the legal aid area office for authority to exceed this limit.
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Absence of legal aid A libel action is the only important civil right for which legal aid is not available.
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He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that.
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Therefore, we consider first the operation of the legal aid scheme.
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His vision included slum brigades, lodging houses, eating houses, legal aid and the first labour exchange.
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But life is not just hard for legal aid lawyers.
assistance
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The value of good legal assistance can not be overstressed.
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And Dees was offering us free legal assistance .
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This might be legal assistance to recover unpaid fees or help with the negotiations after a cancelled engagement.
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The causes she has espoused include lowering infant mortality and the provision of legal assistance to the poor.
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As you appear to be without legal assistance the following instructions must be carried out forthwith: - 1.
authority
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The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration.
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With censorship dead for more than twelve years, it had no legal authority to review any private publications.
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Critics point out the nit-picking thoroughness which legal authorities in the Republic so often bring to bear on extradition requests.
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In 1917 the Illinois State Supreme Court became the first legal authority to advise state courts to bar cameras during trials.
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Slowly they became the legal authorities on the religious law, adding comments and interpretations of their own.
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The outgoing council did not have legal authority to give final approval to an ordinance.
battle
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They explain that the patient is engaged in a legal battle with his brother over some land.
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The agreement effectively ends a bitter legal battle in two states between Mrs Harriman and the heirs.
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The operation marked the end of a lengthy legal battle .
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However, after a prolonged legal battle , Fleiss said she is ready to end her standoff with state authorities.
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It was not just the adults who were scarred by this vicious legal battle .
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City officials denied any retaliation but said they approved the settlement because they feared higher costs from a protracted legal battle .
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Keith Atkinson's case against a health authority was dismissed after a six year legal battle .
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They are also waging a legal battle to try to re-establish traditional communal rights on the mountainside.
challenge
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It believes this would prevent legal challenges to its status while retaining its flexibility to interpret the code according to changing circumstances.
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This is the reason the Democrats lost virtually every legal challenge .
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They believe a successful legal challenge could re-open the prospect of successful buyouts.
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A legal challenge was launched by the Defenders of Wildlife group and other bodies, and upheld by the federal appeals court.
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Her legal challenge has been taken over by another prospective Citadel cadet, Nancy Mellette.
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It can do all these things without the possibility of legal challenge in our courts.
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Broder, from Eller Media, said a legal challenge is likely if the law is put on the books.
costs
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Usually, the successful party is awarded legal costs against the loser.
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The firm then reimbursed the fund for the $ 200, 000 it had received from the fund for legal costs .
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The Halifax, Coventry and Portman will pay basic legal costs and give a free valuation.
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Taft said Simpson has been liquidating assets to pay bills including taxes, legal costs , and business and household expenses.
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At present you can not be asked to pay the Defendant's legal costs , even if you decide to abandon your claim.
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This is less odd than it looks: it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11.
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The legal costs for the two sides had reached £310,000.
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The legal costs will be paid from your Estate so there will be less to divide between relatives and other beneficiaries.
department
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And that is why the legal department of the Daily Mirror will have to buy a new copy of Archbold.
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If you do not send a payment as soon as possible, we must forward your account to our legal department .
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By having an in-house legal department , there is better control of legal costs which makes for a more profitable business.
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He works as a lawyer in the county council's legal department .
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Many local authorities prefer litigation, possibly owing to the choice and influence of their own legal departments .
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In the spring of 1945, he decided to create a legal department and start suing bigots.
dispute
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A succession of other legal disputes went unresolved, and appeals were made to the parlement of Paris.
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First on the witness stand was Neill Freeman, a forensic accountant who traces assets in legal disputes .
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In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts.
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The charges against Studer are part of the legal dispute over the share plan, which shareholders narrowly backed in November 1994.
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He was a passionate, combative, choleric, and difficult man, frequently embroiled in legal disputes .
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If the information is preserved, it will be in an effort to guarantee its availability in case of legal dispute .
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A dispute over what they do mean is, in principle, like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute.
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He's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children.
document
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A will is a legal document , and it has to be written down in the correct legal language.
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He refuses to marry her, in spite of the fact that he gave her a legal document stating his intention.
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His main expense is photocopying thousands of legal documents and he spends his days preparing the next part of his case.
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A trust receipt is a legal document that creates a lien on some specific item of inventory.
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Ensure accuracy and legibility of clinical and legal documents .
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When Woolman displayed a gift for the field of law, his employer put him to work executing legal documents .
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The policy itself being a legal document will define the precise terms of the cover.
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Ephraim even agreed to witness the legal document drawn up between his nephew and niece that effected the change.
duty
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Appointed, in theory, by shareholders, they have a legal duty to report managers' wrongdoings.
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To be more free of legal duties , he concentrated on his skills as a tailor.
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As Chapter 3 will discuss, the legal duties imposed on management are directed towards shareholder benefit.
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The school board has the same legal duty to bargain in good faith as the union does.
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A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right.
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Carmen claimed he and his group owed no legal duty to Roy Peck-that was their defense, in part.
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Citizens thus had a legal duty to reveal felonies known to them.
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Directors of Torras have a legal duty to pursue the missing funds, they add.
expenses
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Medical and legal expenses , public liability and cancellation should all be included at as high a level as possible.
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Clinton has refused to sign GOP-backed legislation to reimburse the fired travel office personnel for their legal expenses .
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One must have regard to the potential for legal expenses when determining the ultimate extrajudicial settlement figure in any case.
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Mrs. Healey, comprehensively insured, would have had her legal expenses met by her insurance company.
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The new lender will charge its legal expenses to you.
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That's where legal expenses insurance helps - it protects against the cost of taking legal action.
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In addition, the legal expenses incurred in the dispute between the partners were incurred to protect and preserve the partnership's assets.
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The settlement even commits the firms to paying the government's legal expenses .
experts
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Surely there should be legal experts to advise them?
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Politics invariably plays a role in any decision to use the emergency powers, legal experts say.
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However, a number of independent legal experts regarded the deals as unfair and exceptional.
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Besides tougher legal standards, there are several procedural reasons to go slow under the new law, legal experts say.
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The standing committee's choice of legal experts to draw up the constitution, adopted unanimously by the assembly, was surprising.
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But several former federal prosecutors and legal experts disagreed, saying that hundreds of prosecutions could be affected.
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Some legal experts say an inquest is an out of date and inappropriate way of investigating the deaths.
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Such an appeal could delay the execution for years, legal experts agree.
fee
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The paper was rocky, as circulation, distribution, legal fees , arguments were building up.
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His legal fees are being paid through his campaign contributions.
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The rebellion was over at a cost he claimed to be more than £4,000 in fines and legal fees .
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It also indicates the district spends almost $ 25, 000 on legal fees .
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The women, who were on legal aid, were offered an out-of-court settlement which would have barely covered their legal fees .
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After almost $ 20, 000 in legal fees , though, Frederick Brewing won approval with its catchy label intact.
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It takes too many years and too many thousands of dollars in legal fees .
framework
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No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
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Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions, but using an entirely different legal framework .
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The republics would need to create the legal framework and conditions for market economies.
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What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
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Some relate to the present legal framework .
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The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues.
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Power contests were often set in a legal framework .
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Under the legal framework employers would also be prevented from winning interim injunctions to stop disruption backed by lawful ballots.
immigrant
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When it comes to legal immigrants , Californians are liberal enough.
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At least 270, 000 legal immigrants would lose food stamps.
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C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants .
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George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.
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The bill would also have denied numerous benefits and services to legal immigrants .
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Kennedy is one of the combatants in the Congressional struggle to reform federal law covering both illegal and legal immigrants .
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I., said it is unfair to make legal immigrants wait.
immigration
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Critics charge the bills would cut legal immigration by 20 to 40 percent by placing new limits on all categories of entrants.
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Alan Simpson of Wyoming attempted to expand the bill to cover legal immigration .
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A second measure to limit legal immigration was tabled, 76-24.
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Senators were unable to work up any outrage about the release this week of new estimates of the size of legal immigration .
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The Senate will take up legal immigration later.
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Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, failed in their effort to rewrite the rules for legal immigration .
issue
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This practice raised several serious ethical and legal issues .
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Paula Corbin Jones are as lurid and titillating as the legal issues at stake are important and complex.
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The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues .
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The defiance of the coroner at last brought the legal issue into the open in a way which had hitherto been avoided.
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In all cases, there could be great involvement in a whole range of legal issues .
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An interesting legal issue still remains to be addressed by the Court.
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This chapter focuses in particular on the legal issues raised by this important investigation.
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Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of political, emotional, financial and legal issues .
limit
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Ferguson, who was more than twice over the legal limit , pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay £25 prosecution costs.
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In any case, the current legal limits for caffeine are sufficiently high to allow a wide latitude of experimentation.
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There was no apparent reason to administer the drug, although the quantities involved were not above the legal limits .
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An autopsy revealed alcohol in his blood above the legal limit in Oregon.
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The legal limit is 35 micrograms.
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Fines for speeding range from $ 57. 60 to $ 360, depending on how much drivers exceed the legal limits .
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Company officials insist that emissions from the combustion of the tyres will not remain within legal limits .
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The legal limit in Washington is. 10.
loophole
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Foods to boost your physique, your intelligence or your psyche are already taking advantage of this legal loophole .
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This legal loophole has proven lucrative for the farm giants.
matter
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Western defenders of the deal claimed that the frontier question was not a legal matter but simple recognition of an existing reality.
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He said this was a legal matter .
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There was also very little demand for help on legal matters and employment issues.
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He became a priest in 1284, aiding his parishioner5 in both spiritual and legal matters .
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Syagrius likewise collaborated with the Burgundians in legal matters before 469.
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He did research on legal matters for Carmine and knew a great deal about his holdings and operations.
obligation
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To what extent they are under a legal obligation to do so will be the subject of the following section.
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Having determined its legal obligations based on the facts of this specific disease, the company actively sought employee cooperation.
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Whether there is a legal obligation is unclear at present.
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Statute takes precedence over contract and other legal obligations .
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Local authorities need comprehensive and coherent policies to meet both these demands and their minimum legal obligations .
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An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability.
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On the other hand, the parties may argue that some third party is under a legal obligation to them.
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Congress recently acted to deny trade preferences to countries that fail to meet their legal obligations to end such abusive child labor.
position
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Suppose, for sake of argument, that this is indeed the definitive legal position .
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Instead, it attempts to give a brief resume of the current legal position .
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The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties.
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The other was the ability of Louis-Napoleon to make use of his legal position and his popularity with the masses.
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That is exactly the legal position .
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These two paragraphs provide a fairly bald summary of the legal position .
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Thus a buyer's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one.
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Uncertainties about her financial circumstances and legal position . 4.
practice
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No doubt many fewer laymen are aware of the parallel legal practice of precedent.
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I am now looking forward to applying this experience in the context of a legal practice .
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Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.
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Bill padding has become so endemic to legal practice that it is generally regarded as a joke.
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That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time.
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What happened next is significant to people who are familiar with law enforcement and legal practice in Dallas.
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Conveyancing is an area of legal practice where there is traditionally some degree of co-operation between practitioners.
problem
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It seems to be clear that not enough use is made of solicitors for the solution of legal problems .
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What if you were a politician with serious personal, political and legal problems .
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In addition, there are potential legal problems .
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In response, the Justice Department stated that these legal problems were all matters under state jurisdiction.
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However, don't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem .
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Such workplace discrimination is a major legal problem .
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A number of legal problems still have to be sorted out.
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Mesa thought his legal problems were over until the Ohio Supreme Court overruled Curran in 1999.
procedure
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There are several reasons for the dislike of the legal procedures .
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One day, the mystery of legal procedures and jargon disappeared.
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What is required is a speedy and effective legal procedure which secures corrections and counter-statements by way of an alternative procedure to libel litigation.
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The legal procedure is far too clumsy and hit-and-miss.
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Nevertheless, even the staunchest advocates of non-legal solutions to truancy seem to accept that legal procedures must continue to be available.
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In legal procedures personal and family relations have been deemed to be beyond law's limits.
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Judges are normally appointed as chairmen of those numerous committees which are concerned with reform of substantive law or legal procedure .
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Invocation of legal procedures , in particular court action, seems to have declined in recent years.
proceeding
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Anonymous accounts could still be held if they related to legal proceedings such as divorce or inheritance.
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General Ulysses S.. Grant suggested that legal proceedings be brought against the city for damages suffered by the blacks.
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The threat of legal proceedings is not improper pressure.
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Mr Benquis faces strong political pressure to successfully wrap up both the investigation and any subsequent legal proceedings .
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How long that takes is entirely a matter for the legal proceedings in Ireland.It's dependent on them.
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Lloyds Bank say they won't comment because the matter is subject to legal proceedings .
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More evidence of environmental damage is expected to emerge in legal proceedings against Exxon, scheduled for April.
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The decision was subject to ratification by the Senate before any legal proceedings could begin.
process
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The legal process of buying then begins.
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The legal process on the federal level is guaranteed to take time.
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The legal process of transferring ownership of the property from the seller to you begins - this is called conveyancing.
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We learned law by mastering a framework for further understanding of the legal process .
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Mediation on all issues complements the legal process , without replacing it.
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The whole point of the legal process is to get a decisive determination which will end the dispute in question.
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The legal process takes a long time and the task of getting new Regulations approved remained incomplete when I retired.
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The legal process is long winded; it can outlast the life of the patent.
profession
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There must, effectively, be a change of culture in the legal profession .
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The first Congress of the United States was dominated by the legal profession .
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The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.
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For a sixty-year-old man in the upper reaches of the legal profession , that was pathetic.
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He is, after all, a government minister, as well as the leader of the legal profession .
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He had a powerful mind and he rose to the top rank of the legal profession .
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This Commission consists of five senior members of the judiciary and legal profession .
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This is a question that perplexes many outside the legal profession who do not fully appreciate or understand our constitutional rights.
protection
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Whether badgers merit greater legal protection is a much-debated question among producers in the south-west where damage to farms is known.
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Patent applications must meet a higher legal standard to be granted and offer a different legal protection than do copyrights.
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You are entitled to legal protection and reporting assaults to the police makes it less likely that they will occur.
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It was suggested by proponents that such legal protection was no longer necessary and was an insult to the South.
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They had special status and legal protection and there were prescribed penalties for those attacking or injuring them.
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It develops gradually, acquiring greater legal protection by stages as the fetus gains viability.
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National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult.
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Relevant spheres for scrutiny include health, education, employment, training, legal protection , trade unions, and others.
reason
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The girl, who can not be named for legal reasons , had been left alone when a friend went home.
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This is for legal reasons , to prevent a suit.
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The child, who can not be named for legal reasons , was staying with her grandparents in south Devon.
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Loretta guessed there were legal reasons for the terse nature of the item.
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The girl, who can not be named for legal reasons , was then led out the back door of the court.
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The names can not be published for legal reasons .
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The woman, who can not be named for legal reasons , wants the circumstances of her children's care proceedings examined.
requirement
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We must ensure that we are operating in full compliance with the legal requirements of our software licenses.
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Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.
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She wasn't immunised That's a legal requirement !
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The clerk is bound by a legal requirement .
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There is no legal requirement for a child's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings.
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The notes do not set out the full legal requirements .
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It is vital to comply with legal requirements before embalming.
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The chapter concludes by discussing policy in social work agencies in the light of research findings, legal requirements and developing opinion.
responsibility
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The child, however, is a minor, the legal responsibility of his/her parents or guardians.
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Each participating State will provide controls to ensure that such authorities fulfil their constitutional and legal responsibilities .
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We can not however guarantee it and we can not accept legal responsibility for it.
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What legal responsibilities does the school board have in the bargaining process?
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Sons carried this legal responsibility throughout their lives; daughters relinquished it when they married.
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His legal responsibilities for issues such as extradition have also brought him into contact with senior legal and political figures in Ireland.
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The exodus comes as governors acquire legal responsibilities for the running of schools as a result of the Government's education reforms.
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It has not accepted legal responsibility for the deaths.
right
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He has the legal right to seize enough of the defendant's goods to satisfy the judgment.
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A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right .
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Animals are not human, therefore it seems inappropriate for them to have legal rights .
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Parental consent to in vitro fertilisation does not deprive the child of his legal right of action.
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Innkeepers have a legal right to payment in advance.
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These can only give extra benefits to those legal rights just discussed and are not permitted to affect them.
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A will also be justified in reaching an accommodation with B rather than exercising his strict legal rights under the contract.
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Those who did not sign would forfeit some legal rights .
rule
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Equally, any proposed remedies must be addressed more to administrative and procedural practice than to changing formal legal rules .
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His decision to aid the individual is determined by a set of social or legal rules .
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Everywhere else it is used in the sense of legal rules embodied in one document.
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Do you therefore automatically break this legal rule ?
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Although this picture no longer accurately reflects the reality of many modern corporate structures, legal rules still rest upon the old idea.
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Nevertheless, the topic is undeniably an important one and it is worth sketching in the legal rules .
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The law and legal rules incorporate and build upon perceptions of reality.
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The legal rules are unsettled, and will cause some confusion with the advent of satellite television.
service
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In response the Society rejected the need to compel local authorities to put out aspects of their legal services to competitive tender.
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It brings free medical and legal services , often vitally needed in poor communities.
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We are committed to enabling people with limited means to have access to legal services .
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Secondly, the inclusive approach may act as a positive encouragement to clients to make use of legal services .
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The Government considers that this unnecessarily hinders the ways in which the provision of legal services might develop.
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Such services may include, for example, the giving of investment advice or the provision of legal services.
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For the rich the cost of legal services is not a barrier to the use of lawyers.
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This has left a section of the community without effective access to legal services for expensive litigation.
status
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The constitutional and legal status of many such rules is a matter of controversy.
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Beal maintains victims should be an important part of the process, but says they have no special legal status .
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Neither their legal status nor their chances in education, training and employment are full or free.
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The change in legal status meant that the couple were deprived of that right.
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If his legal status is to be changed, he must rely on the generosity of the citizens.
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This identity is partly a legal status , partly a feeling.
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The legal status of organisations such as these is analogous to that of a club.
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Marshall traced the development of a legal status of citizenship in the United Kingdom through a number of historical stages.
system
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All legal systems have to deal with the situation which arises where a debtor is unable to pay his debts.
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Krueger had to turn to the legal system for some form of painkiller.
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And revisions to the legal system to deal with the increase in cases means they will be able to prosecute more people.
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This precedent, if strictly honored in 1984, would throw the legal system into chaos.
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On display in recent months have been the best and the worst of the United States' legal system .
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Most communications are later backed up by directives, which require member states to ensure that their legal systems comply.
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They have had to go up against the legal system , the police and the government.
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The legal systems that govern the buying and selling of property differ widely around the world.
work
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The truth is that most legal work does not involve courts.
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Shortly thereafter, Rapoport hired Hubbell and paid him $ 18, 000 for legal work .
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Variety - you would be able to handle a wide range of legal work in commerce and industry.
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Mark Waite of Sugarlands, Texas, does commercial litigation, which is the most grueling and unpredictable legal work .
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The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience.
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As an associate, he said was not involved in entering into specific agreements with clients for legal work .
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Without this we can not engage in any worthwhile legal work or provide access to items.
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My father called us frequently from Tokyo to keep us abreast of the legal work , which sounded complicated to me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
social/legal/political etc framework
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But he accepted the social framework of his day and the status and role of women within it.
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He tries to provide for reform within a political framework and he introduces consensus, as a social control variable.
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In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
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It summarises geological knowledge of metalliferous mineralisation, reviews current and past exploration, and describes its administrative and legal framework .
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No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
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Some relate to the present legal framework .
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The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues.
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What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a long legal battle
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Consumers have the legal right to demand their money back if a product is faulty.
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Divorce finally became legal in 1992.
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In Maastricht, Dutch Guilders, Deutschmarks and Belgian Francs are all considered legal tender.
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Mitchell won a $700 legal award against her ex-landlord.
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Neither side wanted a long and expensive legal battle.
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Office betting pools are not legal .
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Over 3,000 gay couples have married since it became legal for them to do so last year.
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People on low salaries can get free legal advice.
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She now become the legal owner of the land.
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the legal duties of a parent
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the legal system
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The alcohol content of his blood was three times over the legal limit.
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The American government does not pay the legal fees of Americans who are arrested abroad.
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The clerk to the court will reject any document that does not meet the legal requirements.
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This trade in foreign currency is perfectly legal .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has refused, arguing that a definitive legal answer would split the country irrevocably.
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Mr Wade hid his legal acumen behind a cigar-chewing country-boy manner and a thick East Texas drawl.
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Some markets, and many fairs, were important and regular activities without any apparent legal status.
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Some relatives are now considering legal action.
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The legal procedures may be improved, but they are bound to remain vulnerable to an erroneous police case.
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The legal title to freehold or leasehold premises can only be held by a maximum of four persons.
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The school board has the same legal duty to bargain in good faith as the union does.