I. adjective
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a combined/overall total (= the sum of two or more amounts added together )
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The Jones family has a combined total of 143 years' service with the company.
a general/overall/broad assessment (= that covers the main features or parts of something, not the details )
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The doctor must carry out a general assessment of the patient’s health.
an overall budget (= total )
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There has been an increase in the overall budget made available by the Government for training.
an overall majority (= more votes than anyone else )
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What happens if no candidate receives an overall majority?
an overall/general picture
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The study is intended to provide an overall picture of political activity in the nation.
overall majority
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The Conservatives had a huge overall majority in the House of Commons.
overall responsibility
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The Department of Education has overall responsibility for schools and universities.
the general/overall appearance
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The second phase of the project is to improve the town’s overall appearance.
the overall/general impression
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The general impression was of a very efficiently run company.
the overall/general/broad aim (= that concerns the main aim rather than all the details )
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The overall aim of the project is to encourage young people to stay in higher education.
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Guided by the general aim of the project, we aimed to reach a number of key objectives.
total/overall expenditure
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The company's total expenditure rose by 19%.
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aim
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The overall aim of the book is to help with developing activities which meet the needs and wishes of individual older people.
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The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative.
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There will need to be an initial prospectus which states the overall aims , content and form of the course.
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The overall aim was to identify the most appropriate law to govern a particular issue.
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The overall aim is to confer the right on professionals to have their qualifications recognised in all member states.
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The overall aim To have improved Bill's performance as a supervisor.
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In each case the overall aims of nursing remain the same.
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Other departments, too, make their contribution to these overall aims .
balance
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Whatever the overall balance sheet, Althusser's impact has been undeniable.
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When the accountants finish their calculations, all countries have an overall balance of payments equal to zero.
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Obviously, Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right.
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Rather it is the quality of representation resulting from the overall balance of interests.
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It became even more pronounced during the period under consideration as the overall balance between manufacturing and services altered.
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Specially, appointment to the bench should achieve some overall balance as between the nominees of the main political parties in the area.
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Individual populations may still fluctuate, but the overall balance of the community remains steady.
budget
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Since the overall budget hadn't increased, the Making Belfast Work money could not be regarded as additional to that budget.
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In the second stage, choose the expenditure allocation so as to maximize overall welfare subject to the overall budget constraint.
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Some seek external bank loans to support the overall budget due to domestic taxation and borrowing being inadequate.
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Often projects are planned with an overall budget , not broken down into component pieces.
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The finance director gives committees advice on the authority's overall budget constraints for the next year.
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I testified 16 years ago that we ought to publish the overall budget .
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Entitlements now consume more than half the overall budget .
control
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He said it should be possible to provide delegation of responsibility to regional staff, without prejudicing overall control .
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It contains sixteen basic rules, which include some for overall control and some which collect data.
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No party has overall control , but the Labour and Conservative groups have had an agreement to keep out the Liberal Democrats.
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In Oxfordshire, 8 years without overall control will continue for another 4.
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There's still no overall control , but it was the Liberal Democrats' night.
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Sir George Young 937, but Brent has no overall control .
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In this situation the need for an overall control of book provision needs to be carefully examined.
cost
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According to the planning application, which is dated January 1991, the estimated overall cost of the scheme is £51 million.
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The overall cost per alteration in management was £129.00.
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This rate varies from lender to lender and can make a huge difference to the overall cost of your loan.
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They also increase the overall cost of such a mistake.
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They found that gearing did not significantly increase the overall cost of funds to the firm.
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The difference in overall cost is in the price of conveyancing.
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At a cost of £63.00 per study the overall cost per change in management was £129.00.
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When the assistant worked out the overall cost I was astounded.
design
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However, they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design .
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Praise: Excellent overall design , engineering and construction.
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Judges will consider overall design , safety, level of fun and how the playground caters for children with disabilities.
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The overall design of the National Curriculum is not planned.
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The overall design of your reports is an important part of your marketing effort.
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It would therefore be easier to restrict this seam to plain fabrics or those with a small overall design .
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Once you are happy with the overall design , fix it in position with rubber solution adhesive as firmly as possible.
effect
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Sometimes natural oils are used to enhance the overall effect on the nervous and muscular system.
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Add 160 luxury suites and the overall effect is pretty spectacular.
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The budget in this context gives the management the opportunity to examine the overall effect of operating decisions.
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The overall effect was most sinister: I was not surprised that superstitious servants should be fearful of the thing.
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The overall effect from the picture was that if you got any closer you would be engulfed in fire.
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But the overall effect was to help the guilty escape punishment.
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The overall effect of this encounter was dramatic, because it was reassuring and put things in perspective.
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The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.
growth
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The overall growth projection for 1990 was 2.9 percent, and the same for 1991, as reflected in the G-7 economies.
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But overall growth in the labor force will be only about as fast as growth in the general population.
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The overall growth rates for the two periods were 2.82 percent and 2.93 percent perannum respectively.
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Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment.
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Subsequently, with the cuts in public expenditure, there has been a decline in the overall growth of public service jobs.
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This configuration was, John argued, propitious for the overall growth of the economy.
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Family Assurance Society's managed funds have over the past 13 years produced overall growth rates averaging 17% perannum.
health
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There are also other measures that can improve overall health and make the body more resilient.
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For that reason it more than anything determines the overall health and vitality of the system.
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This is concerned with how people evaluate their overall health status.
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The new report looks at overall health systems, from private doctors' offices to insurance.
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The provision of an overall health and safety regime is considerably less today than it once was.
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The drug also improved the insulin sensitivity of the subjects, which could improve their overall health .
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The General Household Survey asks respondents to rate their overall health as good, poor or fairly good for the previous year.
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The ability to control our own fertility gives women choice and timing, as well as improved overall health .
impact
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The company claimed that the overall impact of the revised figures was small.
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It is simply that their numbers were fewer and hence their overall impact appears less.
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Now they must consider the overall impact , and the truthfulness of the total picture.
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But here is the place briefly to consider the overall impact of the Vikings on the West Frankish economy.
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Such information hardly gives the impression that the booklet has had much overall impact on the secondary schools in the borough.
impression
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The overall impression is one of rather old-fashioned comfort marred by a degree of shabbiness.
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Thus the overall impression created is secular and not religious.
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Only the overall impression was familiar, not the individual pieces.
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Perhaps this unhappy memory has clouded the overall impression of the country, which is unfortunate.
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Even so, an overall impression of the organisation is still necessary.
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The musicians fill out evaluation forms, rating the candidates' knowledge, technique and overall impression .
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We therefore get an overall impression of relative flexibility.
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The movement of certain pieces is anticipated, and sequences of movements integrated into overall impressions of the progress of the game.
increase
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Despite this diversion the board grew significantly showing an overall increase in income of 20% this year.
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A processing unit can assume a new state even if the result is an overall increase in energy.
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Despite the interference in short term memory, the overall increase in information sampled will improve long term memory.
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This policy halted the previously continuous growth of local authority tenancies and contributed to the overall increase in owner occupancy.
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When compared with 1985 figures, there was an overall increase of 40%.
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It therefore represents a tidal flow, without any overall increase .
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The overall increase in the net costs of the two Homes for the year was £75,789.
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My plans for 1992-93 provide for an overall increase in my education programme of some 15 percent. over that for 1991-92.
level
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Despite the difference in overall level of performance the relationship between risk and recognition performance in the two studies was remarkably similar.
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Profitability ratios are very encouraging, with both the overall level and trend of earnings looking positive.
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The final effect on the overall level of unemployment is uncertain.
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As cur-rent assets grow with sales, for example, the overall level of current assets will increase permanently.
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Leadership plays a key role in the overall levels of motivation and collaboration. 11.
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In the first part of the chapter we deal with those arguments concerned with the impact on the overall level of employment.
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The effect of short spacing on infant mortality seems to be loosely associated with the overall level of infant mortality.
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Although this included controlling overall levels of local government spending, the role of local government was not in question.
majority
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Only Limavady changed from unionist to nationalist hands, and Magherafelt moved from no overall majority to nationalist control.
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Furthermore, giving existing voting behaviour, it would deprive any one party of an overall majority of seats.
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The government was elected in October 1974 with an overall majority of three.
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To have an overall majority a party needs to win 326 seats.
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The Conservatives won 330 seats, against 287 for Labour, and an overall majority of 30.
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Now, the Leader of that parliamentary party with an overall majority is entitled to be asked to form a government.
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More than double, 65 percent, would prefer the Tories or Labour to have an overall majority .
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Governments were returned with overall majorities .
management
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Traditionally doctors have played a small role in the overall management of these types of injuries after the initial stages.
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He has overall management responsibility for the membership and administration activities.
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To assist in the overall management of the Division.
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Fife Regional Council is responsible for the overall management of the project.
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The increased frequency of malignant disease in this population is of importance in view of the major impact on overall management .
market
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That represented 12 percent more passengers and 17 percent more cars, increasing their overall market share to 55.6 percent in both.
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That easily trumped the 23 percent winnings turned in by the overall market .
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In fact there was other good news in London with overall market share rising to 9.1 per cent.
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Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable.
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However, they do provide the reader with some indication of the growth and size of the overall market .
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Shares are basically flat in the past year, while the overall market has soared.
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There is little assurance as to how individual participants or the overall market will behave.
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Mic now has about a third of the overall market .
pattern
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We look first at the changing overall pattern of lending.
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Does the overall pattern of policy decisions clearly benefit the elite?
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The contrast may itself be a significant feature of the overall pattern .
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But this overall pattern misses the up-skilling within occupations and industries.
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Second, the deviant cases whose level of democracy is unexpected for 1 993 may be temporary exceptions to the overall pattern .
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Observers can zoom in or out to understand overall patterns .
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But the overall pattern is disturbing.
performance
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This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
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Significant gaps continue in the overall performance of girls, despite the narrowing of the gender gap in verbal and mathematical performance.
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Both types of superior have measures of the organization's overall performance - profits in private firms, popularity in governments.
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The faith in regularities applies only to overall performances and to long run outcomes in human collective life.
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The question is, does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ?
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The overall performance of the system is then about forty to fifty watts per square meter, averaged over day and night.
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Time efficiency - Does the efficiency of the operations cause a bottleneck in the overall performance of the system?
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Perry and Rubin scored the highest grades for overall performance .
picture
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Using distance, parsimony and maximum-likelihood methods the overall picture of eukaryote small-subunit rRNA phylogeny remains unchanged.
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Nevertheless, the overall picture is clear.
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What is the overall picture of the process of addictive disease?
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The overall picture is growing clearer.
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Unfortunately, most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details, sacrificing the overall picture .
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Have an overall picture in mind before you start on all the details 4.
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But this three-tier core is just part of the overall picture .
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The overall picture of sentencing and penal practice presents a rather more complicated situation.
plan
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Reading needs to be recognized as just one more part of your overall plan and pattern of tackling hearing loss.
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It is only within the parameters of such an overall plan that a valid science and technology policy can be articulated.
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And, as 1915 drew to its close, some overall plan could be formulated.
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Approves doctrinal formulations, weapons programmes, and draws up overall plan for Politburo ratification.
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There is not necessarily any overall plan for the development and maintenance of the schedules.
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There was no need for the pebbles in the overall plan , and there was no likelihood of their imminent deployment.
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Perhaps it was not intended as an overall plan .
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Firstly, a chart showing an overall plan of study for, say the next nine months.
policy
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In mid-October Dimitrov requested a vote of confidence in his government's overall policy .
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Gorbachev was eager to meet with Reagan, as a part of his overall policy of glasnost, or openness.
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This may affect their autonomy at least in terms of overall policy .
quality
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The overall quality levels of restoration and maintenance are probably higher now than ever before and market values have aided this aspect.
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And the overall quality of care remains vulnerable to health industry cost-cutting and downsizing.
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Overall these criticisms are fairly minor given the overall quality and value of this text.
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They have seen crime rates and their feelings of physical insecurity rise, and their overall quality of life plummet.
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But overall quality , everyone agreed, had never been so high.
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Nevertheless, the overall quality of the fair was poorer than last year's.
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What is the overall quality of the picture?
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I fully endorse Kasparov's assessment of the overall quality from New York and Lyons.
responsibility
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Azed's new department is headed by Thomas Egger, who will have overall responsibility for buying, marketing and sales.
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Mr Treuting will have overall responsibility for the growth and profitability of Verio's operations in the Southeast business market.
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He was not afraid of overall responsibility .
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Usually the baby has one nurse with overall responsibility for primary care and then a designated primary nurse for each shift.
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Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors' overall responsibilities .
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The general manager has overall responsibility for the operation of the hotel.
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In this respect Ramsay Spence was given overall responsibility for quality, health, safety and environmental matters during the year.
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Government chief executives, like their counterparts in the private sector, have overall responsibility for how their organizations perform.
result
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Added together, market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict.
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The overall result will be more effective management of medical costs.
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What has the overall result been?
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But if you stash 90 % of your money in a savings account, your overall results will almost inevitably be mediocre.
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There are still blemishes, subtly dished characters show quite visible stepping in the vertical plane but the overall results look excellent.
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When combined with the effect on bone, the overall result is a decreased blood phosphorus.
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Only Nottingham has overall results below the average in 1997 and 1998.
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The overall result is a very distracted youngster.
size
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The available space in the cabinet or box housing the p.c.b. which determines the overall size of the board. 4.
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To change the overall size of the page, press Alt-F8.
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The overall size of the potential market is even less clear.
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Centralization has little to do with overall size .
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This is a serious omission, given the importance of sentence lengths in determining the overall size of the prison population.
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This storage of glycogen in the muscles adds to the overall size of the muscles.
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The overall size of the army was also cut.
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It is claimed in the Preface that the index has been refined to minimise increase in the overall size of the volume.
strategy
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Moreover, it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy .
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Case will take responsibility for overall strategy and deal-making in his role as company chairman.
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Each practice area strategy should also be consistent with the firm's overall strategy.
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Each was capable in his way but no overall strategy for 1915 was devised between them.
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In the meantime, it is presently developing its overall strategy .
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This is a good determinant for overall strategy .
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As new ideas come up during preparations the chart will help you assess their potential within the overall strategy .
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Playing chess is not simply about how the pieces move, it is about the overall strategy .
structure
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These forms underlie and explain both individual figures and the overall structure of the play.
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Although the new practices elevated patient morale, they had little effect on the overall structure of the leprosy control program.
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Decisions about suppliers also affect the overall structure of competition.
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Although glasses in general do have a definite local structure their overall structure is disordered.
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Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell, it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary.
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You want an overall structure to a topic as well as specific information.
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There were quite marked differences in the overall structure of the bird populations.
view
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This handbook will help to give you an overall view of the businesses of the P&O Group to which you belong.
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However, lectures can be used as a stimulus, to present an overall view and to convey enthusiasm about the subject.
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Recently it has been well-aired in this country through broadcasts and festivals; enough to form an initial overall view .
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Mr. Nelson I was not dealing with that important overall view , which the hon. Gentleman also expressed at length yesterday.
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These interpretations will fill gaps, clarify, explain, and provide an overall view . 1.
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A range of possible responses can be presented to members matching, some overall view of priorities.
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The charts given here are I hope, detailed enough to show the overall view .
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Is sufficient thought being given to the implications, and is anyone taking an overall view ?
winner
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Here are some of the best, along with the overall winner .
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Both women have maximum Grand Prix points and whoever wins their next head-to-head on Friday could be the overall winner .
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This year's overall winner was the reconstruction of the Kennet and Avon canal from Bristol to Reading.
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Entry is free and there is £100 up for grabs with the overall winner receiving the Roy Tongue Cup.
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An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen from the many entries and their reviews were featured in TeleClub a few weeks ago.
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Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner .
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And with such a high class field picking an overall winner is a task in itself.
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The Euro Cup competition links together a series of Continental races, with a points-scoring system producing an overall winner .
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Conference members agreed on an overall approach to drug abuse that focuses on prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.
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Even though some of the details are badly done, the overall effect of the painting is very dramatic.
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His attitude towards his job seemed consistent with his overall approach to life.
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The overall cost of the trip is $500.
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Also the combination of both activities enables banks to reduce overall operating costs.
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Analysts here noted this was an insignificant drop when considered against the overall value of Wall Street stock listings.
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Day-to-day survival adds perhaps less to overall future genetic investment than does populating a new habitat.
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Difficulties that arise from the overall direction of society can then be dumped on a single social group.
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He said it should be possible to provide delegation of responsibility to regional staff, without prejudicing overall control.
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Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable.
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The final effect on the overall level of unemployment is uncertain.
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This would have the advantage of allowing forward planning in terms of an overall residential training programme for 1988 and 1989.
II. adverb
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Overall , it's been a good year.
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One or two products didn't do so well, but overall we've had a highly successful year.
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The project budget is around $25 million overall .
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And so, overall , few new jobs would be created.
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At Merrill overall , the estimated increase in pay and benefits per employee is 3 %, according to Johnson Associates Inc.
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Miller, Dawes, Moceanu and Strug all placed in the top 11 overall .
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Most patients are dead within a year of the diagnosis and overall , less than 1% live more than five years.
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Six out of 10 Labour supporters, and 69 % of voters overall , opposed joining the euro.
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There are more women in positions of power-though their numbers overall are still pitifully few.
III. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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Both were dressed in blue overalls .
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The prime suspect is a man in his 20s, who wears blue overalls and a red baseball cap.
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Alec Llewellyn nodded seriously at me as he walked off in his blue overalls , Alec, that snappy dresser.
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Men in blue overalls with newspapers sticking out of back pockets wandered in.
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Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall .
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McGowan wore the faded blue overalls of a city sanitation man.
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A young girl, also wearing a blue overall , came into the office.
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This aircraft, V7101, had been stripped of all possible equipment and guns, and had been painted blue overall .
white
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That white overall was a passport to the scene of the murder.
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Over it he wore blue and white striped overalls .
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You will then change into a set of white overalls which are made of paper.
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Just over 81 percent of all minimum wage workers are white in a population that is 84 percent white overall .
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The engineers quite terrified me; like angels in hell with their white overalls .
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There were other men in the chill room, all dressed in white overalls .
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A police helicopter was used in the search for the two men who were both white and wearing overalls .
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With that he reached into the pocket of his white overall and took out a small pair of scissors.
■ VERB
wear
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She had lots of rings, on both hands, and she always wore overalls .
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I am wearing overalls and a striped pullover I hate because it reminds me of the clothes men wear on chain gangs.
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She said they didn't notice you if you wore overalls .
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As protection, he wears orange overalls , unzipped to the waist, a green tank top underneath.
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He was still carrying his mop and broom and wearing his brown overalls .
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The prime suspect is a man in his 20s, who wears blue overalls and a red baseball cap.
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Number One, have your men wear overalls , gloves and flash-masks.
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He was wearing a white overall on top of his grey prison issue clothes and he pulled the overall off as soon as he was inside.
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I am wearing overalls and a striped pullover I hate because it reminds me of the clothes men wear on chain gangs.
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The woman in the grey overall serving customers looked just like anyone else.
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You will then change into a set of white overalls which are made of paper.