I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a local call
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Local calls are free at weekends.
a local charity (= one that operates near the place where you live )
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All the money raised goes to local charities.
a local clinic
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She's involved in health care education at a local clinic.
a local company
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The new development will bring more business to local companies.
a local craft
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local crafts such as glass blowing and leather work
a local custom
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We were unfamiliar with the local customs.
a local firm
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The equipment was supplied by a local firm.
a local hero
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Richards was a local hero, a star of the football club.
a local landmark
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This oddly shaped rock is a well-known local landmark.
a local legend
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According to a local legend, the tree was planted by a wizard.
a local library
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This information is available at your local library.
a local newspaper
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The store advertises in the local newspaper.
a local paper
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You could try putting an advert in the local paper.
a local politician
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The plan is strongly supported by local politicians.
a local school (= a school near where someone lives )
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They sent their kids to the local school.
a local tradition
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The villagers are all keen to preserve local traditions.
a local/national/statewide etc poll
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Local polls show him leading by only two or three points.
a local/regional election
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The Green Party increased its share of the vote in the French regional elections.
local anaesthetic (= one that only affects a particular area of your body )
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Eye surgery is often performed using a local anaesthetic .
local area network
Local Authority
local authority
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Central government is trying to stop local authorities overspending.
local call
local colour
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His description of the smells from the market added a touch of local color.
local council
local culture
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The local culture of the island has much to interest visitors.
local dialect
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the local dialect
local government
local history (= the history of events in a particular local area )
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The building is now a museum of local history.
local history
local independence
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The new constitution aims to strengthen local independence.
local opposition
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It took three years to overcome local opposition from environmentalists.
local paper
local politics
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Ann is very active in local politics.
local produce
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Local produce is used wherever possible.
local radio
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Jobs may be advertised in local newspapers or on local radio.
local radio
local rag
local rag
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He writes for the local rag .
local stockists
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Call us to order or to get details of local stockists .
local time
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We’ll arrive in Boston at 4 o'clock local time.
local traffic
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There is quite a lot of local traffic.
local vernacular (= language spoken in a particular area )
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He lapsed into the local vernacular .
local/national importance
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Crime is an issue of national importance.
local/national/international coverage (= provided by local, national etc media )
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Bangladesh doesn't get much international coverage.
local/regional office
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The agency has a network of regional offices.
local/state/city government
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The interference in local government by central government is not just financial, but political.
national/local expenditure (= money spent by national or local government )
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There have been cuts in local expenditure on education.
sb’s local doctor (= working near where you live )
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You should go and see your local doctor.
small/local trader
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a small trader who sells hats in Oxford
the local area
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He quickly made friends in the local area.
the local church (= the one in a particular area, or near where you live )
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The local church dates from the 12th century.
the local community
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Our school is the centre of the local community.
the local jail
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The suspects were taken to the local jail.
the local population
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The local population gave them a warm welcome.
the local press
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Evening classes are advertised in the local press.
the local/national currency (= the type of money that a particular country uses )
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The local currency of Zambia is the 'kwacha'.
the local/national/domestic economy (= in one particular country or area )
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The new factory has given a massive boost to the local economy.
the national/local media
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The case received enormous publicity in the national media.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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Graphics: Methods of transmitting broadcast quality vision through a digital local area network.
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You will have to buy this directly or indirectly from one of the telephone companies serving your local area .
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Many primary teachers start investigations of the past by working out from the history of the school, village or local area .
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Programs of study closely related to the needs of the local area , and geared to its socioeconomic modernization. 2.
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National and international events are covered when they affect the local area .
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Really sophisticated users may like to invest in the ultimate communications link between the two systems, a local area network.
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Clearly our valuable training input to the local area has not featured as a priority on the local Labour Party agenda.
authority
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The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents.
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However, should any local authority disagree with this position, would you please advise me immediately.
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Some local authorities have been very effective at this - in Greenwich, people who registered were entered in a prize draw.
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Yet the two local authority community workers know the sharper side of Muriel's tongue.
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The family proceedings court made care orders in favour of the local authority in respect of both children.
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The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register.
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The event is backed by all five Merseyside local authorities and the Sports Council.
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He is right to draw attention to the hypocrisy of those local authorities , as he has described it.
community
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At another level, there is the question of who should determine major decisions which affect local communities .
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Table V. i summarizes the responses we received as to the role individuals should play within their local community .
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The problem is that the burden to oppose a development falls upon local communities .
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I got her a catalogue from the local community college, and we started talking about courses.
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Contact your local community health council by letter or telephone and ask to be put in touch with whoever is responsible for your area.
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To that end, its project supervisors hold regular meetings with local community leaders.
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These are not peripheral issues; they are key issues to individuals, families and local communities .
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Its vigour and vitality attest to a popular piety deeply rooted in the everyday life of the local community .
council
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Local councils Wobbly Could a local council go bust?
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For many years, he had been on the local council .
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With local councils deadlocked, King must decide.
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At 63, he works at the Open University and is another member of the local council .
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Friday I organised a petition to the local council for a safe play area.
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Then a Private Members' Bill established a trust to protect it, consisting of representatives from five local councils .
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They say they're only doing what the local council would do if it was allowed.
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A lot of local councils and a lot of private industry under deregulation are now turning to the buses.
currency
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These are combined to give an overall requirement which is grossed up for tax and converted into the local currency .
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In local currencies , sales rose 11 percent.
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Devaluation will increase the local currency costs of servicing foreign currency-denominated debt.
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Credit cards or local currency accepted.
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Prices are set in local currencies .
economy
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The index is designed to measure the performance of the local economy .
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A three year programme of four linked projects will investigate small services sector firms in five types of local economy in Britain.
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Louis area that is designed to represent the local economy .
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Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy .
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The local economy exploded, fueled by thousands of new auto workers.
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Both were piecemeal efforts, too far from the city centre, whose shops and businesses drive the local economy .
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And the local economy in Sucumbios is suffering.
education
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Information about local authority policy and arrangements is clearly intended to provoke public awareness and discussion of local education policy generally.
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On education he applauded the Conservatives for taking school budgets out of control of local education authorities.
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All schools will be free to manage their day-to-day budgets, with local education authorities given a new strategic role.
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The many drafts of the report on Birmingham local education authority showed inconsistencies.
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Mr. Eggar I hope that the local education authority will encourage schools to go grant maintained.
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A local education authority is to build a new school gymnasium.
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As we have seen, these three parties are united by a fourth, the local education authority.
election
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Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well.
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This is occasionally true in local elections , where the margin between candidates can be rather small.
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The ruling countered moves in both Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein to enfranchise certain categories of foreigners in local elections .
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There were hints before the local elections , rumours of some sort of relaunch of the Left.
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With local elections due in April 1991, the party knew that its candidates would be clamouring for lots of vote-winning enticements.
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It is, of course, conceivable that the community charge will have a bigger direct effect on local elections in future years.
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Since then, grass-roots groups have been supporting Communist candidates in local elections across the country.
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Labour took 11 seats from the Tories in the 1990 local elections .
government
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Thus we can talk of a local government system which is different from a central government system but nevertheless interacts with it.
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All agreed that new state and local government workers should be brought under the system, assuring new revenues.
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This conclusion needs to be modified in the light of the changes in local government .
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Executives point to increased regulatory pressures as well as scrawny profit margins on underwriting new state and local government issues.
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The correct interpretation is to regard local government services as simply those services provided by local government in Particular circumstances.
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Second, economic expansion and diversification have provided a solid fiscal base for local government .
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According to the new law local parliaments would be empowered to conduct inspection and auditing of local governments .
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They were also expected to meet in Sarajevo with officials from international lending institutions and local government officials.
history
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Sources for local history Document sources are indispensible for most local history studies.
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Those visiting the current exhibit will learn that black churches and their leaders played key roles in local history .
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Sometimes amateur film has a value for local history .
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This has the great advantage of allowing local history materials to be used.
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It is one of those nice little problems of local history .
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And I began to discover some recent local history as I delved deeper into this pit of hell.
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Not on Sunday. museum of local history , illustrating the life of Edinburgh from early times.
level
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The idea is that community standards could be more closely applied on a local level .
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That fact alone is reason enough to return authority to the local level .
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Much will depend on how local managers and clinicians implement the reforms at local level .
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Decisions will be made at the local level .
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At the local level it was expressed by a shared set of values and policies, operating within a welfare state consensus.
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These men had strong territorial roots, but at local level .
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Such issues can only be resolved at local level .
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Only at the close of the summer did things improve at the central, though not yet at the local level .
network
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The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks .
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Tom is connected to a local network , which serves about 1000 users.
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Client-server applications are becoming a reality with performance problems being addressed by faster computers, faster local network speeds and improving software.
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The two companies have also announced an agreement to co-operate on local network management technologies.
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As a result, he expects to see a wireless local network launched before the end of the year.
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The final pressure reduction is to about 50 millibars to supply the local network , which then takes gas to individual properties.
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It is also claimed to provide a high degree of flexibility for connecting different types of data terminals and local networks .
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Modular, diverse and dispersed small-scale generating facilities using local renewable energy sources would support the local network .
news
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A local news agency said gangs paraded several severed heads around the town.
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On any given weekday night, around thirty-eight million people are watching the network news , with millions more watching local news.
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Weekly newspapers - the local story Weeklies are concerned with local news and events.
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The jovial anchorman on the local news reaches into the pocket of his blazer and extracts a fortune cookie.
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Make sure that all the local news people have the appropriate office and home phone numbers.
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The staid and once-serious network news has begun to look like glitzy local news operations.
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On the local news on the radio. poor old bloke!
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You know, the twenty-four-hour local news channel.
newspaper
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So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
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I noticed a caption in my local newspaper the other day, identifying a group of high school cheerleaders.
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The Bolton Area Health Authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers .
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Each week, sometimes twice weekly, food stores advertise their specials in the local newspapers .
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Advertisements should be placed in local newspapers and other public places seeking contact from nurses who are not in employment.
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He got a photograph of himself and his restaurant on the front page of the local newspaper .
official
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Others practice their faiths more openly in unauthorized churches or temples, hoping local officials will turn a blind eye.
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Alameda County Supervisor Mary King hastily organized a briefing for local officials next week.
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The only ones with a steady income were teachers, storekeepers and local officials .
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Currently, 40 governors, legislators in 21 states and more than 17, 000 local officials are subject to various limits.
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In reality guerrilla action was largely indiscriminate with sporadic attacks on the occasional landlord, local official , or police post.
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But aides to Lungren have said that nothing local officials do will let them skirt state laws.
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For new applicants, different councils' rules and regulations on allocations may be more or less strictly enforced by local officials .
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Many local officials are still unaware that the state has granted them the powers to set boating laws for their local waters.
paper
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She would have to look at the local papers .
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Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy.
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Turn to the business page in your local paper .
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My keen enemy from the local paper was there.
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Gossip columnists from the local papers wrote about them.
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At 13 she took a weekend job with a local paper and promptly demanded a pay rise.
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With that new black Schwinn Racer, I contracted with our local paper for a delivery route.
people
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As we walked around this pretty little island we were charmed by the friendliness of the local people .
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At the same time we expose local people to new developments that may be beneficial to cultural activities.
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But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people .
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Money could then be ploughed into smaller projects which create jobs, meet the needs of local people and conserve the environment.
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Nevertheless, it's worried and surprised local people and politicians.
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Some churches are closed against the will of local people to fit in with diocesan pastoral plans.
police
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They say he may strike again and they're appealing to anyone who recognises this picture to contact their local police station.
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Anti-crime efforts including federal aid for hiring 100, 000 new local police officers.
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At the other extreme, they can not long do the job of a local police force.
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Community-oriented policing turns the local police officer into their ally.
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There are moves to have the chief constables of the new forces appointed directly by the Home Secretary instead of local police authorities.
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The local police frequently arrested students for exceeding the speed limit or other minor infractions of the law.
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After the local police were alerted, a man was apprehended suspected to be disturbing the terns and collecting their eggs.
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On May 13, Birmingham was quiet; threatened with intervention, local police decided they could keep order.
politics
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What form would you expect such local politics to take?
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Dole, raised in a Democratic family, registered as a Republican because the party dominated local politics .
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What significance do you think Cockburn and Dearlove would attach to local politics in explaining the changes of the early 1970s?
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The recall made them pay for that mistake and sent out a terrible message about making an error in local politics .
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The nationalization of local politics arose from a specific combination of economic, social and political processes which no longer applies.
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It is to the development of this particular type of local politics that we now turn.
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In the case of local politics , should this mean more than just the local implementation of national policy?
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The homogeneity of local politics in the 1950s and early 1960s was the exception rather than the rule.
press
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In conjunction with our radio broadcasts, we often run the campaign in the local press and Evening News.
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When it comes to advertising, more use could be made of diocesan newspapers in addition to parish magazines and the local press .
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By February the local press had got wind of the affair.
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If so, then this will be advised in the local press .
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A current entertainments page from the local press . 26.
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Despite advertising in the local press , only two people appeared to have arrived.
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The hunt can do without a report like that in the local press .
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If relevant let local press and media know what you are running.
radio
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The evacuation followed a warning to a local radio station at 12.50am.
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Those in local radio believe that the Church should put more resources into encouraging and developing modern music and musicians.
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Medium-sized local radio stations in cities could find themselves competing for revenue with the newcomer, it added.
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In the last few weeks she became a local radio presenter.
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The band will also record public service announcements for local radio stations, urging petitions to protest the arrest.
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There was a street petition and coverage on local radio and in the local newspaper.
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Local radio Here is your golden media opportunity for local radio is an expanding market place for public relations.
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The 21 independent local radio stations all over the Republic claim they are getting audiences of up to three million listeners each week.
resident
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One local resident explained the factors behind the agreement: The agreement when it was signed was full of loopholes.
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At the meetings local residents discussed their fears and their experiences; the police are supposed to respond proactively.
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The local residents were bitterly disappointed with the decision.
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Kabera said local residents helped soldiers pursue the group, and 11 of them were slain.
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In time, the natural succession of plants turned this into an informal landscape which became very popular with the local residents .
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Lawrence River, where she takes samples from polluted water and instructs local residents in environmental sciences.
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There had been opposition from local residents .
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Schapira raised four points: the artist was chosen without being subjected to a competition; local residents were not consulted.
school
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A number depend upon special arrangements with one or more local schools , in either the state or the independent sector.
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One of the most widely available resources are adult-education classes run by local school districts or community colleges.
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Will the Secretary of State now admit that he intends to privatise part of the local schools inspectorate?
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When local schools start this fall, the museum will offer tours for students, he added.
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They will then be able to offer advice and first hand experience when parents inquire about good local schools .
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State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards.
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The travellers paid eighteen thousand pounds for the site and had hoped to settle down and send their children to local schools .
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But as oil reserves dwindled over the past decade, local school property taxes doubled to help make up the difference.
service
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Some courts have a specialist probation officer who promptly channels those suspected of having mental health problems into the local service .
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Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service , let alone long-distance calls.
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Your local health authority will be able to give you advice on local services or your doctor can advise you.
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Other for-sale-by-owner Internet firms only provided local service , he said.
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The need for specialised local services is very dependent upon provision by other groups in the area.
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Tourist offices can suggest local services .
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P.S. Enclosed is an important leaflet highlighting local service telephone numbers for use during normal working hours.
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These councils would assess local needs, contribute to local service plans within the overall strategic plan and monitor local service provision.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at local/state/national etc level
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Bureaucracy, long absent from the country, was making a rapid return, both at central and at local levels .
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Even the left-wing parties that may yet form the government have a record of economic reform at state level .
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First, of course, there really does need to be a range of choices available at local level .
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He believes everyone has ideas worthy of attention and that earth-saving decisions are best made at local level .
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In keeping with the rank-and-file strength of the movement, however, pressure was applied most effectively at local level .
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It has also highlighted the differential at local level .
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The decision has generated sheafs of proposed new abortion legislation, pro and anti, at state level .
city/local/country boy
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For a local boy to come home, this is truly as good as it gets.
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Gary Boyce is a local boy who made it big.
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It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football.
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Joseph must have been a country boy .
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Julie was a rich kid who loved to associate with the tougher, more daring local boys .
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Once a happy, handsome country boy , Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out.
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They went wild with jubilation as they paid homage to the local boy who made President.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a local anesthetic
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Government control was primarily local until the early part of the century.
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Polzeath is our local beach, but there are better surfing beaches further away.
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The fire was reported in the local newspaper.
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Volunteers like Joyce go round local schools helping children with their reading problems.
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You can find all these books in your local library.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actual speed will vary not only with altitudes but also with local terrain.
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Another local mill was known as Furnace Mill.
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Ask at your local Social Security office.
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It is built of the typical pale Yorkshire brick with local stone dressings.
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Some victims of police abuse received compensation in local civil trials.
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The food is freshly cooked using local ingredients.
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The richest local personality was Dmitrii Alekseevich D'iakov.
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These developments often failed because of the limited scale of the local social and economic infrastructure.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Local 54 of the Hotel Employees' Union
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Denver International Airport was built in an area that locals call "Tornado Alley."
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If you get lost just ask one of the locals for directions.
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The new theaters are attracting crowds of tourists and locals alike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the locals aren't giving up yet.
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I began to defend the locals we represented.
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Such a day was Saturday, 22 June 1929, Black Saturday to the locals - the day of the influx.
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The locals got together with Light Motion for a Sunday workshop and have been in rehearsals all week.
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This made it easier for absentee owners to vote than for locals, since locals had to get to the polling station.
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With tourist traffic plunging at famous museums and monuments, the locals have lots of newfound elbow room.