I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a court order (= an instruction that someone must do something )
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A court order specified that the money must be paid back over six months.
a court rules/orders/holds sth
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The court ruled that the penalty was not excessive.
at the bottom of the pecking order
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Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order .
banker's order
be in good/perfect/full etc working order
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The car was old, but the engine was still in good working order.
call/order (sb) a cab (= telephone for one to come )
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Here's the phone number if you want to call a cab.
choose/order sth from the menu
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He ordered a chicken dish from the menu.
court order
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His computer was seized under a court order.
gag order
give orders/instructions
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She certainly likes giving orders.
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They were given strict instructions not to tell anyone.
in alphabetical order
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The files are arranged in alphabetical order .
in chronological order
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We arranged the documents in chronological order .
in numerical order
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Make sure the files are organized in numerical order .
in order of precedence
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Guests were seated in order of precedence .
in order of preference
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Please list your choice of colleges in order of preference.
in order of priority (= with the most important first )
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They asked voters to list issues in order of priority.
(in order) to avoid confusion
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Doctors should explain their instructions to patients carefully, to avoid any confusion.
in random order
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The names are in random order.
in...serial order
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Keep the questions in the same serial order .
keep...in working order
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the amount of exercise needed to keep your body in working order
last orders
lower orders
mail order
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It is available by mail order from Green Life Products.
monastic orders (= groups of monks )
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Roman Catholic monastic orders
money order
obey an order/command/instruction
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The first duty of a soldier is to obey orders.
order a halt to sth (= officially say that something must stop )
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Judge Marquez ordered a halt to logging on Indian lands.
order book
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Our order books are full at the moment.
order of magnitude (= size )
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an increase of this order of magnitude
order of magnitude
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That was a problem but this crisis is of a different order of magnitude.
order paper
pecking order
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Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order .
place orders
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You can place orders by telephone.
point of order
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One MP raised an objection on a point of order.
postal order
preservation order
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a tree preservation order
put your affairs in order (= organize them before you go somewhere or die )
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I have cancer so I know I’ve got to put my affairs in order.
rank...in order of
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It is not always easy to rank the students in order of ability.
restore order (= make people stop fighting and breaking the law )
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The National Guard was called in to restore order when riots broke out.
restraining order
shout orders
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The lieutenant was shouting orders at the workmen.
side order
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a side order of onion rings
some semblance of order
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She was trying to get her thoughts back into some semblance of order .
standing order
stop-loss order
strict orders/instructions
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He’s left strict instructions not to be disturbed.
the established order (= the people and organizations that have power )
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The revolutionaries posed a serious threat to the established order.
the moral order (= the way societies are organized according to moral standards )
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Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history has ever seen.
under starter’s orders (= about to begin the race )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alphabetical
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They are not in alphabetical order , but in the order you are likely to want to use them.
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Imagine trying to rearrange a table consisting of 100 salespeople into alphabetical order by names or into numerical order by sales amounts.
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And the book eschews alphabetical order in favour of thematic logic - to good effect.
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In the dictionary of cheeses that appears at the end of this chapter some cheeses are briefly described in alphabetical order .
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If the user wanted the list in alphabetical order , it would have to be retyped.
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They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable.
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The accounts can also be kept in strict alphabetical order and up to date.
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The project described below are, where appropriate, shown in country alphabetical order .
chronological
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They are neat, legible, easily handled and can be filed in chronological order . 2.
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Indicate these by placing them in a chronological order and the specific amount of time required to complete them.
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We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm's attention.
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The corridor is devoted to old black-and-white photographs showing, in chronological order , the construction of the house.
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Second rule is: All articles written on the Grand Canyon must be written in chronological order .
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Try a tight chronological order to connect each event.
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Do they do it all at once, or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge?
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The more or less chronological order of the essays allows certain themes to emerge and evolve over time.
high
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In some instances the imperatives of lower order needs may preclude the possibility of following higher order needs. 4.
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But with them he could be violent, abusive, duplicitous, a Lothario of the highest order .
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They give us acting of a high order , and director Lloyd Newson has done an impressive job in eliciting it.
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This was drama of the highest order .
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The nature of the task requires cooperative activity of a high order at various levels and between a wide range of people.
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This is exclusivity of a high order .
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The best of our cathedral choirs offer excellence of the highest order .
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Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs.
low
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Satisfaction of higher order needs may well change the perception as to what constitutes satisfaction of lower order needs. 7.
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Second, the actual difficulties encountered overseas appeared to be of a considerably lower order of intensity than had been feared.
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These lower orders also had racial dimensions.
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That could mean lower factory orders from retailers, and producers will hire fewer people.
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He also had claims to be considered a genuine all-rounder, having played many attacking innings in the lower middle order .
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All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm.
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For the most part the lower orders depended on selling their labour.
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For example, the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods.
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So is it merely catalog mail order made complicated by computers?
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Direct mail order sale of food products by food manufacturers and specialty shops has become big business.
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You can buy an Ecosphere by mail order .
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The environmentally friendly retail chain will combine its Web operations with its retail and mail order activities.
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He said Federated will expand its private-label merchandise and mail order .
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But I have to admit that I buy such records by mail order , and that I collect them.
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Approximately 3. 275 million tickets were sold by mail order from May-December, 1995.
natural
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Even the claim that the natural order reflected the contingency of a divine will could pull in two directions.
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It seems, like the dandelions in spring, to be the natural order of things.
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In terms of the dominant concepts of the age, feudalism appeared as the natural order of things.
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To me, Taft-Hartley was part of the natural order .
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No one told; and Jack too joined the unspoken conspiracy that all was well, that no natural order had been violated.
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Faith and despair are equal readings of the natural order .
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They were charged with dispensing justice and avenging violations of the natural order .
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But my ideas were based on ignorance of the natural order of things.
new
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Dinosaurs could not have been moribund because they were still diversifying into new orders .
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Airbus had said earlier this week that it won 106 new orders valued at about $ 7 billion.
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The plant makes and tests rocket motors, but doesn't have enough new orders to keep going.
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And late last year customers apparently chose to work down inventories instead of placing new orders .
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Without new orders , the shipyard would have run out of work by the end of next year.
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That means for every $ 100 in shipments, companies received just $ 80 in new orders .
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The elements of national life which were consistent with the new world order were solely cultural, not political or economic.
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At home, Edna was in her final campaign against Jane Ming-li, who continued to defy the new order .
old
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Corporate yuppie culture is oozing insidiously into the development world and the old order is slowly and inexorably crumbling.
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To some extent, we must ring out the old in order to ring in the new.
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Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order .
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It was this cataclysmic political event that shattered the stability of the old order .
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In their real critique of the old order , they were also, often, both isolated and mocked.
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The old order was changing, and there was nothing we could do about it.
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No doubt Sewell would have maintained the old order but there were forces outside the College working for change.
political
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In the public realm Christians identified themselves almost without reservation with the political and social order of the Roman empire.
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Each successive ideal-type political culture involves more extensive involvement between individuals and the political order .
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In effect, individuals and groups can have an impact on the political and social order .
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Perhaps the constitution is primarily a symbolic document and its details are unimportant for the actual functioning of the political order .
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The democratic political order must be protected against misuse of Basic Rights.
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Yet it has resisted or ignored almost every epoch-marking change in the social and political order .
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Wulfhere's subsequent advance to the Isle of Wight suggests a near-total collapse of political and military order south of the Thames.
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The political order depends upon the economic system to generate goods and services for the survival and prosperity of its citizens.
postal
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Please return it at once, or when sending the postal order .
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Coins Any uncrossed postal order which does not state to whom it is to be paid.
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Send the coupon, and cheque or postal order if applicable to,.
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The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries.
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If you paid by postal order , take the counterfoils to the post office for a refund.
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You should print your name and address on the back of the cheque or postal order .
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Send postal orders to Headgear for Lemurs as soon as you can.
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Please make cheques or postal orders payable to Y Care International.
public
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The central theme of Conservative morality and order was that of public order.
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Smuggling increased and public order virtually broke down.
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The public order essence of the offence has been wholly lost, and affray has become a form of aggravated assault.
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Seven people were arrested for public order offences at the illegal party, whiCH was held in a disused colliery near Cinderford.
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Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty.
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Two young men called Murphy were arrested and charged with public order offences.
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That provision was part of the international public order and applied to all ships which sailed on the seas.
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At the weekend seven people arrested before and during the Division Three match were charged with public order offences.
short
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A piece of good news for Bill Clinton in Congress was followed, in short order , by the opposite.
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We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.
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Collectively they squandered their pricing power in short order .
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He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order .
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It did, and in pretty short order .
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But, in short order , Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.
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A short order may be made, for example, to give a parent the opportunity to return to court with legal representation.
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I charmed him in short order .
social
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The variability of meanings of health and illness is due in a large degree to the negotiability of social order .
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In the philosophical tradition there have been two tendencies with respect to epistemological concerns and concerns about the social order .
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Meanwhile, though, his interests in much of his prose gravitated towards the city and the consideration of social order .
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They had no view of tile nobility of being intellectuals and judges of lie social order .
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Our social orders have changed and we now dislike such vivid evidence of hierarchy.
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Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order .
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Restoring his power to discriminate between one murderer and another would restore justice without imperilling social order .
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She considers thin distinction between the pure and the impure an essential part of social order .
tall
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A tall order , but the price of failure could be the end of collective security for the West.
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To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order .
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Voice over A tall order , when tennis time eats into valuable study time.
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That's a tall order , even for some one with Howard's apparent integrity.
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Holding these seemingly incompatible forces together would seem a tall order indeed.
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This is a tall order for busy parents.
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Isn't that a tall order ?
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But meeting the need will be a tall order .
working
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I keep some of the toys on display in working order for my grandchildren to play with.
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The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.
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Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order . 2.
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Is the aid reliable and in working order ? 9.
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The Governor says it's essential the prison is in full working order right from the start.
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The clock was restored to its original condition in full working order in 1956, after a lapse of seventy-two years.
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I reckon the average user will keep it in working order for ages - I kill them at roughly yearly intervals.
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Also at Horstead Keynes are the carriage sheds where work is undertaken to restore coaching stock to working order .
■ NOUN
book
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These would be commercial travellers, wanting to write up their order books in peace.
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The other driving force is cold cash and order books .
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Booksellers normally order books on a sale or return basis.
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Rolls-Royce's order book stands at a record £7 billion.
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For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book .
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I don't know what productivity you have to show in your job, in mine it's the order book .
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And nobody's order books had been full this summer.
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By 1950 the order book was full to overflowing.
care
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For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order .
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Supervision orders , but not care orders, may also be made in criminal proceedings and are then subject to different legal requirements.
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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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A court can not substitute a care order for a supervision order on an application for discharge.
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They wanted an interim care order .
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For juvenile offenders the White Paper contained proposals for the courts to add a residential care order .
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The hearing of the application for a full care order was listed for 22 January 1992.
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They simply wanted to convert the interim care order into a substantive care order.
court
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She also got a court order for maintenance.
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Hicks obtained a court order waiving the juvenile confidentiality of his case, enabling officials to discuss his arrest and trial.
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There are short rehabilitation periods for juvenile offenders and persons subject to court orders or disqualifications.
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In 1983, Mrs Victoria Gillick sought a court order to rule the latter order of priorities illegal.
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The council primarily has been involved in the fight over special masters appointed to monitor federal court orders on prison conditions.
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Construction is proceeding despite an interim court order restraining the company from putting it into commission.
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A court order freezing proceedings will expire on November the ninth.
form
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The offer's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form .
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Customers can call the phone-order number to receive a yachting order form .
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Simply fill in the order form at the end of this section and you could be using your discs the next day.
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An order form is enclosed with Publishing News.
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See the order form for additional resources.
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As a matter of fact, there wouldn't have been an order form big enough!
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Quote code reference TRI-R on the order form .
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And if you'd like to see the full collection just tick the box on your order form for the complete Essentials.
world
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The elements of national life which were consistent with the new world order were solely cultural, not political or economic.
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In the absence of that conference the rules for the new world order are right now being written in Brussels.
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Everyone, visible and invisible, has to eat according to Chewong notions of the world order .
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The prevailing economic order had to be challenged, and out of the conflict a new world order would emerge.
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However, we are not that much nearer to a world order dominated by a fair application of the rule of law.
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Bush insisted that his policy was clear: the United States would punish aggression to insure the new world order .
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In the new world order capital can get out fast in times of trouble, but labour is stuck where it is.
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To some, we are living in a new world order: others characterise it as a new world disorder.
■ VERB
arrange
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Anyone may display the list, which is arranged in alphabetical order .
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The several statements should be arranged in order of their importance.
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This can be arranged easily by standing order , automatic transfer or by telephone.
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If the chapters in this book were arranged in a different order , would it be a different book or the same?
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Autosomal bivalents can be arranged in order of size, but unambiguous identification of individual bivalents is not possible.
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The diagram shows how the towns can be arranged in a Rank-Size order from large to small - a hierarchy.
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The individual terms included in that list can then be arranged in a logical order before beginning to draft.
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The 17 creatures of Figure 5 are arranged in no special order on the page.
establish
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We can, however, establish the correct order of magnitude from a number of sources.
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The character who can maintain such an idea is a formidable opponent to established order .
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This disjunctive, unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them.
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The reasons for doing so, he felt, are to establish order and to protect private property.
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Once the component parts have been established , their order in terms of time-scale can be decided.
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Most of those words are cynical, humorous and often subversive to the established order .
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Conservatism may represent the attempt to establish some continuity and order in these precarious circumstances.
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Among those who say that Maciel abused them are two men who helped to establish the order in the United States.
follow
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As a man, he followed orders ardently.
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The technicians follow the orders of the director who determines what picture goes on the air.
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Many thought the mild-mannered Mr Junejo would obediently follow Gen Zia's orders .
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By tradition, one must write them following a prescribed stroke order as well, something also to be memorized.
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With Banerjee and Richardson to follow in the batting order , there was no point in hanging around.
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At sea, the rotation of pilots follows a strict order so that no one pilot dives more than another.
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Had I stuck to my principles or had I simply followed orders ?
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Among other findings, the court ruled that defendants could plead that they were just following orders .
give
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The more timid personalities must be encouraged to take charge and to give orders .
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Get your ego out of the way and start convincing and not giving orders .
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When he gave the order , they began to cut the corn in the field where I was hiding.
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The impossibility of giving orders in the darkness, among the tangled thickets, soon produced its effects.
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Respectfully waiting for me to give my orders .
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Con stood at the door, her coat draped over his arm, giving orders .
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The man giving orders was short and fat.
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This is a part of outlining which gives order and structure to your work.
issue
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Their leaders outside the jails issue orders that have to be obeyed on pain of summary execution.
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Whether Nixon himself issued the order remains unknown almost 30 years later.
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Colebrooke, seeing his visitors would not be deterred, turned away to issue further orders .
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President Clinton issued an order Tuesday barring federal contracts from companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
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He would issue the orders , and take the consequences.
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The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.
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Debes gave them an additional forty-five minutes, then issued the order .
keep
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Gordon Jackson's Hudson keeps order Downstairs.
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Jones knew how little time busy people have to pay their bills or keep their finances in order .
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Man is made to relieve the gods of the toil of keeping the earth in order .
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After I finish, I can come back once a week to keep the library in order .
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He has the technology-he can remake you. Keep those order forms coming in.
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Local commanders, acting on their own authority, attempted to keep order according to their interpretations of their duties.
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Examples included the ownership of large single-family homes, but no income to furnish them whilst keeping garden meticulously in order .
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Kennedy responded that marshals would be removed when state officials kept order and conformed to federal law.
make
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A residue of this is the power to make orders in council.
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But he hadn't actually made it an order .
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The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order .
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That objection was quite simply that the courts of this country have no power to make the order applied for.
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The fact that the threshold test is met does not mean that the family proceedings court have to make a care order .
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An order is automatically discharged if the child is adopted or a court makes a residence order under s8.
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It was undesirable to make an order which would in practice be executed before the defendant could avail himself of that opportunity.
obey
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You've never learnt to obey orders , have you?
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This is opposed to obeying orders from a center, or reacting in lock step to the overall environment.
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Two other board members hovered behind him while he told Mrs Saulitis to obey orders .
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The sea, and the ships on it, do not obey orders in the way that armies do.
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There was no cheering on the part of the men, but a stubborn determination to obey orders and do their duty.
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It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders .
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Whoever owned it could call three times upon the Winged Monkeys, who would obey any order they were given.
place
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Decisions on whether Rolls-Royce engines are fitted to the jets will probably be left until customers decide to place orders .
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Institutions place third market orders with broker-dealers registered to trade exchange-listed securities off the exchange floor.
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So we urge you now to place your order by post or by phone.
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When finally yet another server stepped in, we rapidly placed our order .
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I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries.
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Edna was placing the kitchen in order .
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After you have placed your first order , further half-litres come willy-nilly and are put in front of you, until you decline.
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Investors and traders who had bet the dollar would fall had placed such orders to limit their losses.
receive
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Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft.
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Goods are normally dispatched within 24 hours of our receiving your order .
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In 1994 it received more orders for new planes than Boeing.
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All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order .
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Customers can call the phone-order number to receive a yachting order form.
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In 1913 she received the order of St John of Jerusalem.
restore
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The government has managed, by and large, to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992.
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The only hope lay in trying to restore order .
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An indefinite curfew was imposed on seven police districts in the city and troops were called in to restore order .
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Is a strongman needed to restore civil order ?
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Malekith moved swiftly to restore order .
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To restore order , the government declared martial law.
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But after a sixty-five thousand pound refurbishment, the bells have been restored to full working order .
restrain
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Neither Sheffield, his attorney nor Phoenix police could confirm if a restraining order had been obtained.
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Within a day, a county judge granted a restraining order barring enforcement of the new law.
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His answer was that the restraining order probably protects other entrants.
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The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.
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The measure already has been blocked under a temporary restraining order .
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Agnes Brye said she had asked authorities a few years ago to issue the restraining order before they finally did so.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(in) working order
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Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours, and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order.
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Every lock in the house is in perfect working order.
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Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
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Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order. 2.
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The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.
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There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order.
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These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.
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You did have to keep it clean and in good working order.
a tall order
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Breaking a habit, be it over-eating, over-drinking, biting your nails or jumping to conclusions, is a tall order.
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Holding these seemingly incompatible forces together would seem a tall order indeed.
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If this sounds a tall order, it is.
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Isn't that a tall order?
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It can be a tall order sometimes.
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That's a tall order, even for some one with Howard's apparent integrity.
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This is a tall order for busy parents.
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To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.
an unfilled order
be given/get your marching orders
bulk buying/orders etc
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Also, with bulk buying you save a lot of time by not having to order each resistor and capacitor individually.
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He and other outlets routinely open bulk orders of booster packs, then sell individual rare cards over the counter.
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In the 1980s you can not survive in a small business unless you are part of a bulk buying organization.
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It might also be worthwhile buying packs of d.i.l. integrated circuit holders, or bulk buying the smaller types.
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One reason: Cellular services that buy phones from Motorola have demanded ever-lower prices for their bulk orders.
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This is available from us free of charge in bulk orders and I hope you will consider taking some for distribution.
call sb/sth to order
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I now call this meeting to order.
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Having had the bloody debris removed, he called the cast to order and began work.
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The new Senate president banged down the gavel and called the chamber to order with a strong firm voice.
cash a cheque/postal order/draft etc
fill an order
in ascending order
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Their ages, in ascending order as above, were four, seven, ten and fourteen.
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We ranked rural postcode sectors in ascending order of proportions of oil workers among economically active men.
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You may move cards off in ascending order from Ace to King to their respective piles off the playing area.
in descending order (of sth)
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Another beneficial trick is to re-order the rows and columns of a table in descending order of marginal totals.
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Follow these steps to re-sort our table in descending order: 1.
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It will allocate them in descending order from the highest priced bid to the lowest.
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The balance sheet in Table 16.2 shows the various sterling assets of the recognized banks in descending order of liquidity.
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The groups were themselves divided, in descending order, into offices, divisions, and branches.
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The table indicates which categories each of the six companies found useful; the categories are listed in descending order of usefulness.
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The table is now sorted in descending order according to the Amount field, as shown in figure 11. 5.
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We also want this table sorted by the amount that the clients owe in descending order.
in running order
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A nightly news programme, involving late inclusions and enforced changes in running order, is bound to be frenetic.
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Keep the battery fully charged and the engine in running order.
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Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
in short order
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The bombers destroyed the enemy's camp in short order.
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A piece of good news for Bill Clinton in Congress was followed, in short order, by the opposite.
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But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.
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Collectively they squandered their pricing power in short order.
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He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order.
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I charmed him in short order.
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Sun Microsystems Inc will make it available for all Sparc systems in short order.
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They would be attacked in short order and possibly even killed.
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We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.
law and order
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Neighborhood leaders are working with police to maintain law and order.
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The new government is gradually restoring law and order.
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His party claims to be the party of law and order, the family, back to basics.
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I have tried to show the real gap between Labour and the Conservative party and Government on matters of law and order.
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Indeed, it would represent a complete breakdown, not just of law and order, but of all civilised values.
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It arises from the need to maintain law and order.
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My hon. and learned Friend will be glad to welcome the 16.7 percent. increase for the law and order programme.
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Periodic law and order - it's elementary!
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Sentencing policies, as a result of law and order campaigns mean the prisoners are younger and more likely to be black.
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The hon. Gentleman again raised the question of law and order.
put/set/get your (own) house in order
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But Apple first must get its house in order.
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Commissioners are satisfied with the progress it is making to put its house in order.
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Following numerous complaints the Vicar of Woodford has been told to put his house in order.
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Henry had set his house in order but had no thoughts about setting off on crusade.
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Others have called on the council to step in and tell the firm to put its house in order.
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The Law Society no longer can support equally those who have put their house in order and those who have not.
repeat order/prescription
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Repeat orders Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end, so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem.
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Also, Haines reckons that fair play has helped it win repeat orders.
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Coupon not required for repeat orders.
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Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.
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It has to win repeat orders.
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They can produce repeat prescriptions when the doctor so authorises.
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Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.
reverse order/situation/process etc
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At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.
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Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order.
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In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.
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The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.
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The reverse process, therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.
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To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.
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Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.
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We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.
stay an order/ruling/execution etc
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Rivals got a stay order from the courts, though after a backroom deal in mid-March the government got its way.
the lower orders
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For example, the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods.
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For the most part the lower orders depended on selling their labour.
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Gin was, after all, commercially produced and consumed only by the lower orders.
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He shows no urge to rub shoulders with the lower orders but, if anything, a tendency to keep his distance.
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Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders.
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The riots of 1736, too, had crystallized general resentments of the lower orders.
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We must have the freedom to make our mills successful, so that we can offer the lower orders employment.
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When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders.
the running order
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There are a few changes in the running order for the teachers' conference.
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So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anyone who disobeys this order will be punished.
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Can we have a bit or order here? Someone straighten those desks out to start with!
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Check that all the names are in the right order .
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General Bradley gave the order to advance.
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He developed a filing system to try to impose order on the mass of information.
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I'm not taking orders from you!
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I'm the one who gives the orders around here -- just remember that.
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I'm very sorry, but we seem to have lost your order .
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I want the report ready by noon - and that's an order .
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It doesn't matter which order you answer the questions in.
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List three choices in order of preference.
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Movie scenes are not shot in the order in which they are shown.
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My orders are to take you to the airport and put you on the first plane to Paris.
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On Stalin's orders, the target for the 5 year plan was raised once again.
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Put it into a large mixing bowl and add, in this order , the milk, the honey, the melted butter, and the salt.
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The commander's orders must be obeyed at all times.
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The court has issued an order blocking the sale of this drug.
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The Fraternal Order of Police
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The games were displayed on a long wall, in alphabetical order , from Acrobats to Wheel of Fortune.
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the National Order of Loyal Knights
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He said Eurydice stayed in her room most of the time, but now she gave orders and she had stopped crying.
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I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos.
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In knowing that something is an order one knows all there is to know about its relation to its execution.
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Richmondshire District Council agreed to make the order announcing the pay and display scheme which will start on June 1.
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The government also is tinkering with how it tallies Hispanic citizens and in what order questions are put to respondents.
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The human beings who survive the Flood come from the old corrupt, violent order .
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The offer's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
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Equally, the court can not normally order the grant of a new tenancy of more than the holding.
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To obtain these it is possible to ask the court to order discovery.
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The court may order that the action be stayed or dismissed or that judgment be entered for plaintiff or defendant.
investigation
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The failure to order a criminal investigation drew immediate criticism from several policyholders' lawyers.
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Home Office officials have ordered an investigation into the case.
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Congress orders investigations , and suddenly the rest of the mainstream media begin covering them as legitimate stories.
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Sir John has reportedly ordered an investigation into allegations that the unit burgled and burnt down his offices to destroy evidence.
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Education Secretary John Patten ordered an investigation into huge differences in performance between local authorities.
judge
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All that the judge may order is a postponement until the risk to the administration of justice has passed.
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At a third proceeding June 6, both sides again objected, and the judge ordered the news media excluded.
meal
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It was like wading through treacle just to order a meal .
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You order your meal from the tablecloth, which is stained.
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We could order meals from outside and buy fresh fruits, candies, and toiletries.
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He ordered his meal of cod and chips and no vinegar, then sat down to await its arrival.
power
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The civil division of the Court of Appeal enjoys much wider powers to order a retrial than the criminal division.
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In the 1890s magistrates were given the power to order corporal punishment as punishment for specific offences.
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It turns in very firmly, with surprising power response, when ordering the automatic transmission to think quickly.
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The court has power to order that no application is issued without leave.
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The ombudsman has no power to order compensation for example.
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The Commission has powers to order divestiture of unauthorised mergers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(in) working order
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Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours, and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order.
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Every lock in the house is in perfect working order.
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Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
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Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order. 2.
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The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.
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There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order.
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These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.
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You did have to keep it clean and in good working order.
a tall order
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Breaking a habit, be it over-eating, over-drinking, biting your nails or jumping to conclusions, is a tall order.
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Holding these seemingly incompatible forces together would seem a tall order indeed.
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If this sounds a tall order, it is.
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Isn't that a tall order?
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It can be a tall order sometimes.
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That's a tall order, even for some one with Howard's apparent integrity.
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This is a tall order for busy parents.
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To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.
an unfilled order
be just what the doctor ordered
bulk buying/orders etc
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Also, with bulk buying you save a lot of time by not having to order each resistor and capacitor individually.
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He and other outlets routinely open bulk orders of booster packs, then sell individual rare cards over the counter.
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In the 1980s you can not survive in a small business unless you are part of a bulk buying organization.
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It might also be worthwhile buying packs of d.i.l. integrated circuit holders, or bulk buying the smaller types.
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One reason: Cellular services that buy phones from Motorola have demanded ever-lower prices for their bulk orders.
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This is available from us free of charge in bulk orders and I hope you will consider taking some for distribution.
in running order
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A nightly news programme, involving late inclusions and enforced changes in running order, is bound to be frenetic.
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Keep the battery fully charged and the engine in running order.
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Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
in short order
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The bombers destroyed the enemy's camp in short order.
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A piece of good news for Bill Clinton in Congress was followed, in short order, by the opposite.
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But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.
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Collectively they squandered their pricing power in short order.
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He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order.
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I charmed him in short order.
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Sun Microsystems Inc will make it available for all Sparc systems in short order.
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They would be attacked in short order and possibly even killed.
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We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.
law and order
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Neighborhood leaders are working with police to maintain law and order.
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The new government is gradually restoring law and order.
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His party claims to be the party of law and order, the family, back to basics.
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I have tried to show the real gap between Labour and the Conservative party and Government on matters of law and order.
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Indeed, it would represent a complete breakdown, not just of law and order, but of all civilised values.
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It arises from the need to maintain law and order.
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My hon. and learned Friend will be glad to welcome the 16.7 percent. increase for the law and order programme.
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Periodic law and order - it's elementary!
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Sentencing policies, as a result of law and order campaigns mean the prisoners are younger and more likely to be black.
▪
The hon. Gentleman again raised the question of law and order.
put/set/get your (own) house in order
▪
But Apple first must get its house in order.
▪
Commissioners are satisfied with the progress it is making to put its house in order.
▪
Following numerous complaints the Vicar of Woodford has been told to put his house in order.
▪
Henry had set his house in order but had no thoughts about setting off on crusade.
▪
Others have called on the council to step in and tell the firm to put its house in order.
▪
The Law Society no longer can support equally those who have put their house in order and those who have not.
repeat order/prescription
▪
Repeat orders Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end, so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem.
▪
Also, Haines reckons that fair play has helped it win repeat orders.
▪
Coupon not required for repeat orders.
▪
Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.
▪
It has to win repeat orders.
▪
They can produce repeat prescriptions when the doctor so authorises.
▪
Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.
reverse order/situation/process etc
▪
At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.
▪
Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order.
▪
In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.
▪
The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.
▪
The reverse process, therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.
▪
To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.
▪
Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.
▪
We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.
the lower orders
▪
For example, the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods.
▪
For the most part the lower orders depended on selling their labour.
▪
Gin was, after all, commercially produced and consumed only by the lower orders.
▪
He shows no urge to rub shoulders with the lower orders but, if anything, a tendency to keep his distance.
▪
Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders.
▪
The riots of 1736, too, had crystallized general resentments of the lower orders.
▪
We must have the freedom to make our mills successful, so that we can offer the lower orders employment.
▪
When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders.
the running order
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There are a few changes in the running order for the teachers' conference.
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So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Don't move", he ordered.
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"Put your hands up!" the officer ordered.
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A man with a gun ordered the woman to give him all her money.
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After the accident the government ordered a full public enquiry.
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He was ordered to pay £4000 towards the court costs of £10,000.
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He was ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation.
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I'm afraid we don't have that book in stock, but we can order it for you.
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It wasn't until 1973 that Nixon finally ordered US troops out of Vietnam.
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Only the king has the power to order her release from prison.
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She pointed her gun at him, ordering him out of the room.
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The colonel ordered his men to advance.
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The court ordered that Gilmore should be executed.
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The desks were neatly ordered in rows.
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The psychology books are ordered according to title, not according to author.
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We had ordered a pale blue armchair but the one that was delivered was dark green.
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Would you like to order a drink before dinner?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Joe does not argue or order another; the bartender has put him in a good mood.
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Haverford ordered a coffee and a cognac italiano per favore.
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He also ordered that all public meetings or conferences had to be cleared with the Mayor's office three days in advance.
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Herrera ordered that this inhuman practice must cease and proposed to put recruiting on a voluntary basis.
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In tribute, Clinton Thursday ordered all Arleigh Burke class destroyers to steam at noon for five minutes at 31 knots.
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Let the arcs of the net be ordered.
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So, too, Equity might order a document executed under a mistake to be rectified.
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Therefore, you are ordered herewith to shut up about the Marlins' payroll.