I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a media/press campaign
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The government spent thousands of pounds on a media campaign.
a pressing problem (= one that needs to be dealt with very soon )
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Lack of clean drinking water is the most pressing problem facing the refugees.
a pressing/crying need (= a very urgent need )
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There’s a crying need for more doctors and nurses.
free press
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For the first time in its history, the country has a free press .
full-court press
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The DEA and the Justice Department put a full-court press on the drug barons.
garlic press
held...press conference
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The Green Party held a press conference the next day.
media/press coverage (= on television, in newpapers etc )
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The case has received wide press coverage.
newspaper/press clippings
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old press clippings about movie stars
permanent press
press a switch
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He pressed a switch on the wall and the door opened.
press agency
press agent
press baron
press barons
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conservative press barons like Beaverbrook
press box
press conference
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The Green Party held a press conference the next day.
press corps
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the White House press corps
press cutting
press gallery
press office
press release
press secretary
press/bring charges (= make someone be brought to court for a crime )
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Sometimes the victim of an assault does not want to press charges.
press/media speculation
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She appealed for an end to press speculation about her marriage.
press/newspaper cuttings
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Margot sent him some press cuttings about the wedding.
printing press
stop press
the freedom of the press (= the right of newspapers to publish what they like, free from political control )
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The freedom of the press is written into the country's constitution.
trouser press
vanity press
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Murders get a lot of bad press , so you don't publish the numbers.
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I think this is one of those projects that certainly got its share of bad press .
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Interwar Socialist Realism Socialist realism has a bad press in the West.
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We had bad press , we had a lawsuit.
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Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press .
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Predictably, the law practice has caused Brown to be dogged by bad press .
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But gossip hasn't always had such bad press .
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Now I know Utopianism has recently had a bad press .
foreign
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Nor is it usual for the foreign press to first travel and then write the story.
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Reuters deal with financial material generally and the foreign press .
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They were remarkably adroit in their cultivation of the foreign press .
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For the foreign press , the disaster that remained of greatest interest was the one originating in Fujian.
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Therefore, Hollywood woos the foreign press a bit more stridently.
free
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Such a legacy was hardly encouraging as far as the setting up of a free , unfettered press after independence was concerned.
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For without an informed and free press there can not be an enlightened people.
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A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way.
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We think he should, on free press grounds and more.
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A free press burst out of the shadows within a few months of the collapse of the Suharto regime.
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Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
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All those who believe that a free press is a prerequisite of a democracy have cause for concern here.
local
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Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story.
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The local press wants to hear all about the great victory.
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Details of activities and entertainments going on in the town can be obtained from the entertainments page in the local press .
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Again the politicians balked at the cost of buying the land, and the local press echoed their opinion.
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If so, then this will be advised in the local press .
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The local press came in curious gaggles, and the students eased shyly into their new incarnations as media darlings.
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If relevant let local press and media know what you are running.
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Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press .
national
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As Table 6.1 shows, the national press kept a remarkably steady share, in the region of 16 - 19 percent.
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It was the kind of scenario that, eventually, inevitably, would draw the national press like bees to honey.
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I have followed in the national press with great interest my hon. Friend's borough's activities.
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Of course the national press knew this was the most transparent manner of dry-humping.
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War was declared, and his real name was later revealed by the national press: Herr Ribbentrop.
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After the national press rushed into Arkansas like Matthew Brady to record this conflict, Roberts backed away from his angry declarations.
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The national press can see him any time.
popular
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The focus of media coverage in the popular press is implicitly working towards this chimera.
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The popular penny press displaced the small circulation partisan press as the model of the daily newspaper.
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The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport.
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The public can be forgiven for finding the concept perplexing, since the popular press uses the terms multimedia and cross-media interchangeably.
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They are being tackled head-on both in the popular press and Communist Party theoretical journals.
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Some on the edge of pioneering new work styles have been featured in breathy articles for the popular business press .
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In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press .
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Do not believe everything you read in the popular scientific 84 press , Watson!
tabloid
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The influence of the tabloid press was particularly strong on the uncommitted.
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Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible.
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Much of the bad publicity came directly from the philistinism of the tabloid press .
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Younger voters tended towards the tabloid press and Radios 1 and 2.
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The tabloid press tries hard to make a Home Secretary's life a misery.
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Kinnock complains of the alleged power of the Tory tabloid press , but he has powers on his side too.
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As that happens so the tabloid press get interested in the game.
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Her views on capital punishment, immigration, and the trade unions resemble those of the right-wing tabloid press .
■ NOUN
agent
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The press agent succeeded by having Rockefeller give money to charity.
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This guy must have had a press agent .
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She preferred eating there, and she was reading the latest stack of clippings her press agent had sent her.
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Because officials are so anxious to get good press , there is often tremendous pressure on the government press agent .
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The difference between a bandit and a patriot is a good press agent .
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With government press agents operating under this kind of pressure, Washington reporters find stories easy to get.
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They tried it on a male movie star in Hollywood and he told his right salary and his press agent quit him.
baron
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Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible.
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The four richest on paper are revealed as two press barons and two grocers.
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A press baron is an immensely powerful figure.
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In adopting this crusade, the press barons were also directly challenging Baldwin's leadership of the Government and of the party.
box
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The young Sri Lankan scorer in the press box awarded it to Manuel.
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My duty was to run statistical information and other paperwork from trackside up to the press box .
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Armed guards stood on the stairs to the press box .
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Awnings on top of the press box were damaged.
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In the press box , the sports reporters are already writing her into their leads.
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It is aimed at him from the darkened press box .
conference
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Its cameras followed the candidates around on the campaign, showing unabridged speeches, press conferences , walkabouts.
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Back in the United States the reaction to the press conference ranged from disbelief to outrage.
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At the postgame press conference he brought his glove, sat it on the table in front of him and commenced fidgeting.
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After Clarke was sentenced, Jonathan's family held a press conference , begging others to stay away from drugs.
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A Treasury spokesman said there was no need to hold a press conference with every rate change.
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This morning Swindon Police called a press conference to announce an important new development in the case.
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He has a press conference downtown.
corps
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The invited press corps kept its distance from Holden, leaving him in peace to concentrate on his performance.
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Remember when she invited the press corps in to sample her favorite cookie recipe?
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The press corps weren't at all what Kate had expected.
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It made it that much harder for the Washington press corps to drop in and snoop.
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The important visitors filed in after them, and then the members of the press corps .
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But they were no ordinary members of the Washington press corps .
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I was travelling with President Carter's press corps in 1980.
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The spokesman returned in a state of even greater perplexity to confront the television cameras and assembled press corps .
coverage
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He had the potential for massive press coverage .
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Sales were further boosted by press coverage of carbon monoxide poisonings, including the 1994 death of tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis.
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The press coverage I received during the production was phenomenal, thanks entirely to you.
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Following a burst of publicity for Forbes, Dole has continued to receive negative press coverage .
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The Wedding Present probably benefited from their demise, mainly in terms of press coverage .
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And in return, legislators depend heavily on the mainstream media for their large-scale financial contributions and favorable press coverage .
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Its activities, perhaps naturally enough, received press coverage out of all proportion to the rest of the war.
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After massive press coverage , Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked the state to give the riders protection.
freedom
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If the law threatened press freedom , it was for Parliament, not the courts, to change it.
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Suppression of press freedom has not happened.
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There is to be greater press freedom .
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He also announced liberal reforms including greater press freedom and the abolition of laws governing subversion.
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Labour politicians have spent most of their working lives promising to protect press freedom .
gutter
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Finally, could you leave the insults to the gutter press please?
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Without doubt the gutter press whirlwind contained no substance whatsoever.
house
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Y., appeared in the White House press room with her grandson Adam, who was abducted when he was 3.
music
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And in 1992, having been mere space-fillers in the music press , the Levellers had a top 20 single.
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However, U2 will have sorely disappointed fans who rely on the music press as their solo source of information.
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But still this new music was far from established as a credible art form in the pages of the music press .
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Letters stuffed full of anti-Smiths sentiment flooded into the music press offices.
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I don't remember getting into any particularly heavy conversations, but that is symptomatic of the music press .
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It got a lot of airplay from John Peel, and was written up extensively by the music press .
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Most of the deal was carried out in New York and this contributed to an air of confusion in the music press .
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Also, send your record to journalists on all of the popular music press and phone them as well.
office
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A spokeswoman for President-elect Bush, said his press office was on holiday and had no immediate comment.
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Calls to the Pentagon press office were unanswered last night.
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For a time, the Northern Ireland army press office denied that such a force existed.
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She referred Bernstein to the press office .
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Letters stuffed full of anti-Smiths sentiment flooded into the music press offices .
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But McGee said the plan was dropped after his clients learned the press office for Gov.
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The chancery was a public relations office , a press office and a private office all in one.
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So I tried again, talking with Microwriter's press office .
officer
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Skoda's press officer is one Milan Smutny, whose family name means sad.
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Government press officer Jakubowska denied the coalition is seeking a new prime minister.
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The London Implementation Group has a full time press officer working alongside colleagues in the Thames regions.
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To keep everyone happy press officer David Begg, from Glasgow, recorded immediate reactions.
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When I queried this I learned that Microwriter no longer employed a press officer .
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There were no engineers or sponsors or press officers or masseurs.
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A press officer should try and gain exposure for your record through the media.
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Soon she was recognised by the group as their specialist on facts and figures and formal press officer .
printing
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There has suddenly appeared a multitude of banners and pamphlets from these printing presses of the trees.
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The documents travel from printing press to wastepaper basket in one uninterrupted motion.
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Last, but not least, workers have fretted about being displaced by machines ever since the invention of the printing press .
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Pupils learn about how a printing press works.
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The Communist Party and various affiliates control nearly all Soviet printing presses and broadcasting stations.
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Sheet fed a printing press which prints single sheets of paper, not reels.
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By Saturday new plates had been made and the printing presses re-set.
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Ivan's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans.
release
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Reiterate the arguments in your press release calmly but firmly.
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Companies should arrive at each stop armed with press releases and cameras to record local functions.
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News of the professor's departure was a single sentence at the bottom of a footnote in a holiday-period ministry press release .
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Then it canceled the mill anyway and issued a press release blaming the workers.
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Sentences in press releases should be kept short.
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The press release provided a positive appraisal of the government's economic reform programme.
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His descriptions of everything from lures to reels to fish finders read like they are straight out of a company press release .
report
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As he gazed at the press reports of Woolton's endorsement, he felt invulnerable, almost home.
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Those who fall deeply into personal debt become vulnerable to unflattering press reports .
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Mr. Powell I was not referring to a press report of the Robert George case.
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Unidentified male caller employed hotline number morning of press reports .
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Periodically there are press reports of otherwise healthy individuals who need no sleep at all.
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Contrary to many press reports , however, there was only one, unified, commencement.
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Local press reports quoted the Minister of State for Defence, Maj.-Gen.
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That is, the press reports were exploring the boundary of legitimate behaviour by women.
secretary
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Jim Heath, press secretary for Hayworth, declined to comment.
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John Buckley, once a Kemp press secretary , is director of communications for the Dole campaign.
time
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An official statement the companies were hammering out also at press time was unlikely to clarify that point.
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Further details were unavailable at press time .
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At press time , it was said to be still finalising international agreements.
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Event information is accurate as of press time .
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The bad news is he weighs just under 30 stone at press time , down fourteen stone from his previous weight.
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Representatives for Federated Department Stores could not be reached for comment at press time .
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Motorola did not return calls by press time .
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As of press time , no decision had been made.
trouser
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There is a trouser press in every manservant's room.
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All rooms have central heating, direct dial telephone, television, tea making facilities, hairdryers, trouser press , etc.
■ VERB
appear
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For the past two years his photograph has regularly appeared in the Corsican press .
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They asked about the tombstone, the public announcement that would appear in the financial press at the end of the deal.
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Though both had appeared in the press and are very slight pamphlets, they rank as first editions in book form.
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During that visit an extract from Volkogonov's forthcoming book on Stalin had appeared in the press and caused a stir.
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Every case appearing in the national press is likely to appear in some local newspaper.
leak
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And of course she leaked that to the press .
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When this leaked to the press , it generated an uproar.
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The cartoons caused outrage when they were leaked to the press last week.
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Her plan came to light after it was leaked to the press .
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His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and some one had traced his whereabouts.
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When the story was leaked to the press , all hell broke loose.
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If something is leaked to the press , the bigmouth will be tracked down and punished.
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So the material was leaked to the press .
tell
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The Solicitor-General I do tell that to the press .
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I told the press as much in a brief on-camera interview at Keflavlk.
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Answering questions, I told the press the situation as I saw it.
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But Annan told his press club audience that he opposes such credits.
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In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be hard put/pressed/pushed to do sth
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Aunt Edie was in such a rage about it that she was hard put to contain herself.
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Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993.
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I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
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Leinster will be hard pushed to keep the score within the respectable margins of defeat set by their predecessors.
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Once an apology is given, the defendant will be hard put to contest liability later.
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The slave's side ... and even Miss Phoebe would be hard put to understand.
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With his height and features, he was hard put to pass as a native.
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You will be hard pressed to choose a single main course because so many are mouth-watering.
be hot off the press
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People were queuing up for the new Harry Potter book to arrive - hot off the press.
be pressed for time/money etc
press/push (all) the right buttons
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He pushed all the right buttons .
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These are words which are all designed to press the right buttons among women voters.
press/push sb's buttons
press/push the panic button
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And why have governments in the region not pressed the panic button?
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Derby County chairman Brian Fearn has refused to push the panic button after Tranmere's 2-1 win.
put/press/push the pedal to the metal
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By the second half of the game, the Tigers had really started to put the pedal to the metal.
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Later, Brooks' brother alleged that racism helped put the pedal to the metal.
quality newspapers/press etc
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According to Hirsch and Gordon, the quality press focuses on those issues which interest and reflect its middle and upper class readership.
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In the quality press, first, the 1960s saw a great growth of specialization within public affairs journalism.
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Instant wisdom proffered by some commentators in the quality press is that Labour's task is forlorn.
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Such calculations are normally done daily and are published in financial and other quality newspapers.
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Support for the Alliance was weaker amongst readers of the tabloids than readers of the quality press: all perhaps as expected.
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The quality newspapers treated the story in a few paragraphs.
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The habit of reading the paper backwards even spread to the quality press.
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The same is true of the mid-market press and the quality newspapers.
the gutter press
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Finally, could you leave the insults to the gutter press please?
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Without doubt the gutter press whirlwind contained no substance whatsoever.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a press photographer
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a bench press
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a wine press
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Making her way through the press of fans and well-wishers, Halliwell got into a taxi.
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Put the garlic through a press .
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The box opens with the press of a button.
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Wesleyan University Press
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks.
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Daughter Pat is head of the specialty press operation in the White House media affairs office.
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Event information is accurate as of press time.
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Jobs weren't easy but eventually he fixed a slot as a night wire man at a Toronto press agency.
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Mrs Metz explained that we desired to avoid the route past the press room.
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Political awareness was further heightened by the press .
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The press was at first unhelpful in either explaining or interpreting the events.
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The first press run of the magazine is 300, 000 copies.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ahead
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But the government is unlikely to press ahead with what the Academy has disavowed.
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But so is its determination to press ahead irrespective of the results of practical tests of the system.
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There is no contradiction between paying tribute to those specialist services in London and pressing ahead with the reforms.
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In self-confident mood, Franco pressed ahead with his plans for the Law of Succession.
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Your other option is to press ahead with your Night Goblins and release your Fanatics in front of his best unit.
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We will press ahead with regular appraisal of teachers to encourage high standards and develop professional skills.
down
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He pressed down on the cradle, waited a moment then dialled again.
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There were clouds now, bloated and purply black, the sky pressing down hard.
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Press the rice into the tin, cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed.
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With no freeboard to counterbalance, the leeward rail pressed down , admitting the flood, and the boy bailed furiously.
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Each time pressing down very firmly on the backing sheet, hammer nails into the other two sides.
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Spread in a buttered 13 by 9 by 2-inch baking pan. Press down .
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John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight.
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The only sensation was of a heavy weight pressing down on his back.
forward
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To return to where you were, keep pressing Forward .
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She has to be careful not to trip over these little kids who press forward at her knees, begging for autographs.
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Aurangzeb seized the moment and pressed forward .
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Jane pressed forward through the crowd to take her place.
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Stop him who can! Press forward every gallant man With hatchet, pike and gun!
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Checked again and again, they still pressed forward .
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The younger man pressed forward , his hands tied behind his back.
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But this latest phase has now also emboldened Bush to press forward with his agenda in strong, conservative strokes.
hard
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It will be a non-title clash, but if Owens is successful then he will obviously press hard for a title chance.
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Alicea will be hard pressed to get the $ 800, 000 he received last year.
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The Reds, desperate to open the scoring, fought well and pressed hard , with Hutchison and Marsh testing Cherchesov again.
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You will be hard pressed to choose a single main course because so many are mouth-watering.
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The new strike partnership of Saunders and substitute Dwight Yorke failed to make an immediate impression as Ipswich pressed hard .
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They point to long-term costs that even a thriving enterprise would be hard pressed to minimize or absorb.
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The statue was unreasonably heavy, pressing hard against him.
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We had pressed hard for these and the Inspector eventually agreed to a series at four different venues.
home
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
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For a complete forward search, press Home Home up arrow to reach the first page before pressing F2.
most
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In Ban Chon, the most pressing issue among teenagers was drugs.
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The first and most pressing demand upon me was the immediate safety of the capital and the government.
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But the handheld device might solve the most pressing problem of the internet age: how to get developing countries online.
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Congress authorized a loan of five hundred thousand pesos to meet the most pressing expenses of government.
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The United States considers strategic weapons negotiations the most pressing issue to be sorted out at the summit.
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This approach has tended to reward countries for appropriate political behavior instead of concentrating on the most pressing development needs.
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Sometimes the most pressing performance gaps are more obvious than easy.
on
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Richie attempted to press on with An Early Bath for Thompson, but he soon nodded off.
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He pressed on , thinking big, planning the largest electric furnace in the world.
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Judges declined to answer her question, but Ward pressed on , spelling C-I-D-E-R-I-A-L.
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He pressed on and on, resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing.
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Santa Anna fled to Orizaba while the invaders pressed on tO Puebla, which was occupied on the fifteenth of May.
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So go for it, she told herself, and pressed on .
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Hugo glanced at his watch, and decided to press on for another half-hour.
■ NOUN
advantage
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage ?
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The firm knew its value to the project and pressed for every advantage it could.
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For game 5 one would have expected that Karpov would have wished to press fiercely for an advantage with the white pieces.
bell
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As instructed, he got out and pressed a bell in the wall, and after a moment the gates opened.
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He pressed the bell and waited, half hoping that it wouldn't ring or no one would come.
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She reached for her packet of Soviet-made Marlboros, noticed the full ashtray and pressed a bell on her desk.
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I found that out when I'd pressed the bell and no one came.
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I must be brave for Perdita's sake, said Daisy through chattering teeth as she pressed the door bell .
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Wycliffe pressed a bell push in a door with stained glass panels.
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She had managed to press the bell with the end of her whip.
button
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Pointing at the object and pressing the right mouse button displays each object's properties.
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Simply press the reset button twice and the machine boots up into the diagnostic routine.
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Bowman cracked the seal, and pressed the button .
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He pressed a button and somewhere high above machinery clunked into life.
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What did I do, press a button or something?
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About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change.
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Confused and agitated, he pressed the call button .
case
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The nationalist presses the case to encompass all the world's people.
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If Pat Buchanan has a beef with trade policy, Iowa is a strange place to press his protectionist case .
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I am not proposing him for Moderator, but I am pressing his case .
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The magistrate Swallow, imperious, yet insightful in the resounding portrayal of bass Louis Lebherz, presses the case for them.
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In 1773 the grievance committee ofthe Separate Baptists resolved to press their case .
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When the Orange County voters sent him to the Virginia Assembly, he found the forum he needed to press the case .
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When you and I were out touring the sticks, young Orville was back in town, pressing his case pretty hard.
charge
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The Jana'ata, preoccupied with larger affairs, pressed no charges and released Sandoz to the custody of the Consortium.
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Manning said Las Vegas police never recommended a prosecution in the hotel beating because Anderson declined to press charges .
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Is there anything I can do to press charges against these men?
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Mrs Moon unsuccessfully implored prosecutors not to press charges against her husband.
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The assistant chaplain at Long Lartin, in her 40's, has decided not to press charges .
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He did not press charges against the police as the lawyer urged him to.
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Police say the owner of the boats doesn't want to press charges against whoever was responsible.
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There were no arrests, but the attorney general is considering pressing charges against club operators.
claim
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Contact your tax office and press your claim .
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It has no pressing economic claim on my conscience.
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New bodies emerged to represent and press the claims of the more assertive national minorities.
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With Jamie Pollock suspended for one match, Proctor could press his claims for a recall to the squad.
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Almost certainly some suitors must have continued to press their claims through courtiers and household servants.
face
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He pressed his face to the glass.
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He pressed his face against the cold metal as the rain started to come down.
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She turned and pressed her face against his chest.
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She couldn't make that mistake now, not with the moist thick snuffling pressed up against her face .
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I pressed my face to the window.
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His body ached for her and he would press his face into the lumpy pillow groaning with the hopelessness of his need.
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A prickly heat pressed against his face .
flesh
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He jabs his finger to slam home his message and he is happy to press flesh and kiss babies.
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His fingers pressed into the soft flesh of my arms as he tried to force apart my hands.
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She gripped my hand, pressing dirt and flesh into my palm.
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Clinton stayed long enough to press the flesh and view several sample issue ads with the donors.
government
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They are pressing their government to stop the diving and turn Truk into a war grave.
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Congress authorized a loan of five hundred thousand pesos to meet the most pressing expenses of government .
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Liberal peer, Lord Avebury, pressed the government last week for further information about the computer.
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The Santanistas then retreated to La Griega, being hard pressed by the government troops.
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These expectations were nurtured by the adversarial nature of electoral competition and they pressed hard on to government .
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A new lobbying group has been formed to press the Government for tougher action on climate change.
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The codex secretariat has pressed governments to encourage more consumer groups to attend.
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He's the man who spent 11 years pressing the Government to introduce some sort of training for new motorcyclists.
hand
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He tugged on the ends of the billowing wig and ran his hands over it, pressing it to his head.
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John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight.
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The red-coated rider had one hand pressed flat on the top of his black hat.
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She gripped my hand , pressing dirt and flesh into my palm.
key
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For people with trouble controlling their hand movements, special key guards allow them to press only the key they want.
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The effects of these keys are cancelled when you press the Enter key.
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If you then take the cursor up one line and press the delete key you will have deleted the tab.
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Each time that you press the key , the left margin moves to the next tab stop toward the right.
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You can prove this by going back to the start of the paragraph and pressing the Backspace key .
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You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed .
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He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key .
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La Beale Isoud sat down and pressed the necessary, keys .
lip
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But she pressed her lips tightly together and rode steadily on.
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What holds him back from pressing his lips upon those lips with brown lipstick?
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She shivered and pressed her lips against his skin.
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She rolled over on top of him pressing her lips against his, her tongue teasing, her hand rocking him.
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Bob Southwell only pressed his lips together and didn't say anything.
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He drew her towards him, in play, and pressed his lips on her lips.
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Slowly Ruth ran her hand across his chest and pressed her lips to his flesh once again.
point
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Piers didn't say anything, but he didn't press the point with her.
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We have become expert in the physiognomy of pleasure, the nodes to press , the points to massage.
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I decided not press the point .
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To press the point home, each packet carried the World Wildlife Fund logo.
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Unfortunately, the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point .
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She had refused to disrupt an already smoothly running system and he hadn't pressed the point .
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It was not a place for reasoned argument and Alec Davidson did not press his point further.
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Deuce did not press the point .
return
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You can now move the highlight to the subject that is being queried, press return and view the information.
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Highlight the desired file using the arrow keys, then press Return to select 6, the default Look option.
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Double clicking has the same effect as pressing the return or enter key.
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May I urge him to press for a return to traditional standards of teaching in our primary schools as soon as possible?
service
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Bees, flies, birds, lemurs and tree kangaroos are all pressed into service .
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The penguin presses the pants into service for a dastardly diamond heist.
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Secondly, the Fabians pressed evolutionary theory in service of a collectivist ideal.
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Vehicles of various kinds were pressed into service .
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Every bit of board and rusty sheet of metal had to be pressed into service .
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When Alvin arrived, he was pressed into rapid service of the sort he was learning of necessity to thrive on.
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It presses new mutations into service as they arise and is just as ready to make do with what is already around.
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Sometimes, complete new pieces of biochemical equipment evolve, but more often workaday genes are pressed into service .
switch
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The driver pressed the switch fully down and the beam became of blinding intensity.
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This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on the screen by pressing a switch in my hand.
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Lily moved away from him and pressed the switch that plunged the room into darkness.
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Her fingers pressed the switches and the lights on the ceiling of the incident room flickered into life.
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Bienvida pressed the light switch but the bulb was long used-up and no one had replaced it.
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The figure pressed a switch on the wall and the bars of the cage disappeared.
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In the test the subjects were required to learn to press a given switch out of four available in response to a given light.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Andy pressed the cool glass to his forehead.
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As the race started the crowd pressed forward towards the track.
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Enough olives had been gathered and pressed to produce 1000 litres of cooking oil.
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Friends come to help us gather the crop and press the grapes.
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His hands pressed down on both her shoulders.
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How much can you press ?
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I'm not going to press those shirts for you.
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I pressed the brake pedal, but nothing happened.
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Kate pressed forward through the crowd to take her place.
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She stuffed the papers back in the box and pressed the lid down.
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The cookie dough is then pressed into small shapes and baked in a hot oven.
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The doctor gently pressed her stomach.
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The hand-operated machine presses the grapes to produce a dark liquid.
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The security men tried to hold back crowds of reporters pressing round the President's car.
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Their tiny faces were pressed against the window.
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To get coffee, put your money in the machine and press the green button.
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We pressed the flowers between the pages of a book.
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Which key do I press to delete it?
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Without thinking, he pressed a button on the desktop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bake for about 20 minutes more, until cake is brown and feels firm when gently pressed.
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Mattie pressed the automatic device on her dashboard and the garage door eased upwards for the Lincoln to slide smoothly in.
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Our fighter group took care of them in short order, however, and we pressed on to launch the attack.
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The first and most pressing demand upon me was the immediate safety of the capital and the government.
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They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio.
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Those shown in the brochure are for guidance only and may have changed since we went to press .
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We each attach a bracelet to our wrist then press the palm of our other hand on to the metal pad.