noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a publicity campaign (= to tell the public about something )
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The interview was the start of a publicity campaign for his new book.
adverse publicity
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Miller’s campaign has received a good deal of adverse publicity .
publicity stunt
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Todd flew over the city in a hot-air balloon as a publicity stunt .
shunned publicity
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a shy woman who shunned publicity
unfavourable publicity
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unfavourable publicity
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
advance
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Don Peters had been pleasantly surprised to find the Prime Minister's forthright manner lived up to her advance publicity .
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We will have to arrange for advance publicity , set up an office and make arrangements to show prospective buyers around.
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The advance publicity has been stupendous, and the first issue is alleged to have sold out straight away.
adverse
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And there's one thing that Great-gran can't stand and that's adverse publicity in any way.
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Remember that, Andrew, adverse publicity in any way.
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It needs to ride out the storms of adverse publicity .
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To obtain an eviction order through the courts could mean a lengthy legal process, possibly entailing adverse publicity .
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Overall coverage and publicity of the day was excellent, with very little adverse publicity.
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The directors, however, could argue that to do so would expose the company to adverse publicity .
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The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause.
bad
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Publicity is no good for my business, especially when its bad publicity .
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When that received bad publicity , he promoted the Texas Guinan fat reducer.
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It made no sense for him to be engineering bad publicity .
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The delaying action kept the case out of court and minimized bad publicity until after he won re-election.
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Apparently there is such a thing as bad publicity .
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One reason commercial diet companies are having problems is that they received a lot of bad publicity in the early nineties.
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The workers said the campaign was attracting bad publicity for their company and putting their livelihoods at risk.
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Their main worries seemed to be not the paper, but bad publicity and the left being seen fighting amongst itself.
considerable
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They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity .
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Salmonella poisoning has received considerable publicity in the recent past.
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But whatever his considerable political, publicity and debating skills, Mellor's downfall will not cause too many real Tory tears.
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They will benefit from all the above - plus considerable extra publicity .
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The move attracted especial attention because compulsory religious education had been introduced in schools with considerable publicity only in 1982.
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The reports have attracted considerable publicity although only a tiny proportion of the reports have been debated in the House.
extensive
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And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them.
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Given the 163 extensive publicity , few could fail to be moved by the plight of polio victims.
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Undeterred, Barnes launched an extensive publicity campaign amongst members.
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In an extensive media publicity campaign last week the Natural Law Party announced they would be fielding candidates in each constituency.
free
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Norah complained bitterly that her style had brought the company free publicity worth far more than it cost.
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Get some free publicity in your local newspaper.
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For far too long we have given free publicity for such tourist spots as Edinburgh Castle.
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Snyder was receiving free publicity from Colman McCarthy.
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And the free publicity the event will gain will be worth a fortune.
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Of course, on this occasion, Benetton again exploited the free publicity of the news cameras.
good
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He reckoned that the word elite was usually applied to those who had the best publicity machine.
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Reich has generated a lot of good publicity for the Clinton administration.
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The wedding was set to give the royals their best publicity of the year.
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Many book industry veterans maintain that any publicity is good publicity.
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The savings figure, then, is highly speculative, but it is certainly good publicity for the department.
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Much good publicity has been given to five areas of Britain that badly need it.
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It made her look dramatic and sexy, he'd said. Good publicity .
great
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These benefits would include greater publicity and the resulting increase in funding.
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Prevention is quiet, but politicians who mount all-out attacks on symptoms generate great publicity .
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Those who control great engines of publicity are responsible to no one but themselves; equally their methods are their own.
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The greatest publicity and interest in the world is to be told about something, not to have read about it.
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He wants to see even greater spending on publicity , help and advice.
local
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In two cases, the matter was given swift local publicity .
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When he made a speech in San Francisco that received local publicity but none back East, he fired ScanIon.
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I will await confirmation of these dates before I contact the owner of the site or arrange local publicity .
massive
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The reason we receive massive newspaper publicity for reports like Empty Quarters and Nobody's Home is that every property is illustrated.
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Before he released the panel, Weisberg admonished jurors to avoid the massive publicity generated by their verdicts.
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Their likely argument would be that massive publicity of the McVeigh proceedings had poisoned the jury pool in Colorado.
maximum
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The step was announced by the secretary of state in person and given maximum publicity .
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Well-organized, they achieved maximum publicity for their demands.
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New classes particularly need maximum publicity .
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The video is being used to cause maximum publicity against foxhunting before a Wiltshire County Council vote to ban it tomorrow.
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They waste time and money when their sole interest is to secure the maximum publicity for their causes.
national
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And the libel action, if it comes to trial, will give us valuable national publicity if properly handled.
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That class-action lawsuit has garnered national publicity and is scheduled for trial next year.
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An unusual job was created by a national newspaper for publicity purposes.
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The immediate postwar years had brought a great deal of national publicity to Carville.
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In 1925 he received national press publicity for discoveries concerning malignant growths.
negative
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He overrode negative reviews with publicity stunts.
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They will not do this if all the recent most regrettable and very negative publicity persists.
unfavourable
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For example, the modifications could be carried out badly, resulting in unfavourable publicity for the software company.
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Following widespread unfavourable publicity , Grand Lodge decided to redefine its rules on public relations in 1984.
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The political activities of members of Özal's family, especially of his wife Semra Özal, had also received unfavourable publicity .
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A great deal of fervent and unfavourable publicity was heaped upon the papacy as a result of this issue.
unwelcome
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Cancellations cost the dealers in fines, and can generate unwelcome publicity for the licensed dealer concerned.
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The authority has no duty to implement any proposals for redress but clearly refusal to do so may lead to unwelcome publicity .
wide
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Action will be taken to ensure that the widest possible publicity is given to seat belt legislation.
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The case received wide publicity when a habeascorpus petition was upheld by two lower courts.
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The case attracted wide publicity in the Soviet press.
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With the wide and growing publicity for the service, more and more women called.
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In a later chapter I refer to the modern notions of witchcraft and satanism which receive such wide publicity today.
widespread
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Perhaps we should consider giving widespread publicity to the Audit Commission's account of the Government's failings.
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He returned a week later, after widespread publicity , with more than twenty thousand marchers, who demonstrated peaceably.
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In the 1980s a series of scandals received widespread publicity .
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Following widespread unfavourable publicity , Grand Lodge decided to redefine its rules on public relations in 1984.
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Several contracts were awarded to private contractors especially in cleansing - and the whole issue attracted widespread publicity .
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All our actions gained very widespread publicity .
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Split-brain studies have science fiction overtones which have led to their widespread publicity in more recent times.
■ NOUN
agent
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We could all take up the role of publicity agent , advertising our own favourite recreation!
campaign
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A full publicity campaign would initially be essential.
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There will be absolutely no publicity campaign .
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Why did you invite me all the way out here from London to mastermind your publicity campaign , Roman?
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It is also clear that people did not crowd into the mission on Azusa Street because of a skillfully crafted publicity campaign .
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Despite a major publicity campaign , only a few people thought they'd seen her or even spoken to her.
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Undeterred, Barnes launched an extensive publicity campaign amongst members.
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I see Scribners is bringing out both the novels, and has a sizeable publicity campaign on the stocks.
department
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Then I spoke to some one in the publisher's publicity department .
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The introduction of Intercity's Nightrider service seems to have caused some difficulty in the publicity department . late nights?
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I want people to turn to us when their own publicity department is overloaded, or when a star needs special attention.
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Some one from the publicity department of his publishers had set it up.
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They are used by the publicity departments of large commercial organisations to do clever things with the truth.
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This is available for group showing, talks etc from publicity department , Runcorn Heath.
machine
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Burton was goose meat for the publicity machine .
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Our publicity machine will illuminate whatever we point it at....
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But the publicity machine had come into operation and nothing would stop it.
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Naturally the publicity machine is already at work trying to clean up Phillips' image.
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In order to generate interest in his players and their careers, he has become a press and publicity machine .
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He reckoned that the word elite was usually applied to those who had the best publicity machine .
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Open secret AT last the royal publicity machine has admitted that Charles and Diana's marriage is less than perfect.
material
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I usually begin the week by starting all the publicity material for the latest performances.
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Employers may be asked, for example, to contribute to a central fund to enable the Compact to develop necessary publicity materials .
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We particularly need to improve the placement of our publicity material in tourist centres, including the development of hotel packs.
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When special events take place at any of the gardens, adequate stocks of publicity material need to be placed on-site.
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Work is in hand on identifying information needs and relevant publicity material is in preparation.
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Mr. Curry Young people's awareness of agricultural issues is promoted through publicity material , information packs and planned visits to farms.
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The industry has also prepared its own publicity material which emphasises the damage peasant farmers do to forests.
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The publicity material promised landing, weather permitting.
stunt
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A statement from the heart or a mere publicity stunt ?
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He overrode negative reviews with publicity stunts .
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It could be a publicity stunt gone wrong.
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Unionist politicians accused him of naivety and dismissed the truce as a publicity stunt .
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Now that times are tougher, such costly publicity stunts are harder to justify.
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It's a publicity stunt to gain sympathy.
■ VERB
achieve
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Well-organized, they achieved maximum publicity for their demands.
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Sometimes, dubious studies achieve publicity or may be attractive for other, perhaps political or novelty, reasons.
attract
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Pollutions which attract substantial publicity risk impugning the agency's competence.
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But it was Hockney who attracted the publicity .
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The case attracted wide publicity in the Soviet press.
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It fluctuated, through the manoeuvres of the press groups, and it tended to attract publicity .
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As a formal procedure, this is today rare and serves mainly to attract publicity to the cause in question.
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The workers said the campaign was attracting bad publicity for their company and putting their livelihoods at risk.
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Several contracts were awarded to private contractors especially in cleansing - and the whole issue attracted widespread publicity .
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Yet she attracts more attention and publicity than all the other women players put together.
avoid
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One must avoid publicity or anything that could damage the reputation of the hotel.
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Before he released the panel, Weisberg admonished jurors to avoid the massive publicity generated by their verdicts.
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Greene chose the life of an émigré, had an austere dedication to the life of the writer, avoided all publicity .
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Hoping to avoid delays and embarrassing publicity , in July the council started quietly pressuring Pike to disengage from the venture.
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She took on the alias in a bid to avoid publicity when dealing with her solicitor Paul Butner.
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The authorities meanwhile are eager to avoid publicity about the success of the El Barillo repopulation.
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The reformers were not merely considering the desire of actual rape victims to avoid publicity .
bring
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Norah complained bitterly that her style had brought the company free publicity worth far more than it cost.
gain
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All our actions gained very widespread publicity .
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Despite his extraordinary flair in gaining publicity for the causes he believed in, McTaggart was an intensely private man.
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To adopt a militant, uncooperative or obstructive approach may gain publicity , not all of which will be good.
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I think they thought it was a way to gain publicity for their petition.
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Most of them did so to make a political point and to gain publicity .
generate
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This generates atmosphere and publicity if you are looking for it.
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Its pioneering clients generated enormous publicity , but is a significant trend likely?
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He made colleagues of similar rank jealous for the way he could generate publicity .
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Prevention is quiet, but politicians who mount all-out attacks on symptoms generate great publicity .
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Cancellations cost the dealers in fines, and can generate unwelcome publicity for the licensed dealer concerned.
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No doubt making such grand claims helps to sell more books and generate publicity .
get
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They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area - quite deliberately.
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If it gets too much publicity , you can believe our negotiations with Justice will wind up shot down.
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Then, to help it develop, we spread the word. Get publicity .
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That margin appears to have been reduced just as Forbes is getting even more publicity .
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The most important point, however, is that this rapist, who got the most publicity , is the most unusual.
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These days you have to have a movement to get anywhere, to get any publicity , to get anything done.
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They are the superstars of entrepreneurship; they get the publicity and the money.
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She sure knows how to get publicity .
give
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Perhaps we should consider giving widespread publicity to the Audit Commission's account of the Government's failings.
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You give too much publicity to radical oddballs....
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Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors' offices.
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And the libel action, if it comes to trial, will give us valuable national publicity if properly handled.
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The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity .
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There were powerful lobbies working against the film and perhaps not surprisingly it was given no further publicity in terms of awards or nominations.
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In two cases, the matter was given swift local publicity .
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For far too long we have given free publicity for such tourist spots as Edinburgh Castle.
provide
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Press Releases Many organisations use press releases because it provides them with publicity at little or no cost.
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A craft table will be on display and Mrs. Higham will provide the publicity material.
receive
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It is unlikely that other offers will be submitted, as the sale of the site Will not have received publicity .
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When that received bad publicity , he promoted the Texas Guinan fat reducer.
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It has been produced because of the telephone enquiries we are now receiving following publicity in the national press.
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The previous owners had never received any publicity .
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Finally let me record an item put out by Reuters News Agency which did not receive much publicity .
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In mid-June the Confederates made another move-not a major one but one that received major publicity .
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They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity .
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Though it did not receive much publicity , it was a major achievement and long overdue.
seek
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Did I want to seek publicity just to make myself feel better?
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I have a lot of reporter friends but I was never particularly interested in seeking publicity .
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Media training courses run by the Press and Parliamentary Unit continued to attract in numbers lawyers seeking to improve their publicity skills.
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Best's decline was conducted in the full glare of self seeking publicity .
shun
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In days gone by, the emperor shunned all publicity .
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A lawn-mowing, mall-shopping, jeep-commuting suburbanite, he lives quietly in Acton with his wife and two sons and shuns publicity .
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He is also described as the quiet one who shuns publicity and lets the rest of the band enjoy the limelight.
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Running their corporation according to the ancient precepts of the Talmud, they shunned all publicity and trusted only a handful of associates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blaze of publicity/glory
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A blaze of glory, a fury of passion that left them weak and trembling in each other's arms.
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As soon as Hitler's trial was over, the blaze of publicity surrounding him vanished.
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He did not exactly do it in a blaze of glory.
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I am launching my new sport soon in a blaze of publicity.
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Intercar was launched in a blaze of publicity in 1985 as one of the country's first cut-price car supermarkets.
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They went out in a blaze of glory.
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Whenever their conflicting playing schedules allowed, these two attractive superstars of sport managed to meet in a blaze of publicity.
the glare of publicity/the media/public scrutiny etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The band appeared on Larry King's show, which was good publicity for their US tour.
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The show's organizers spent over $500,000 on publicity alone.
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Who did you get to do the publicity for the show?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Administrative procedures must be tightened up, and effective publicity should emphasise prompt and vigorous action in the courts.
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Afterwards, the loss of sense of colleagues, disloyal competence and inappropriate publicity would follow.
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He and his family asked the Foreign Office not to give the case any detailed publicity , for fear of jeopardising his chances.
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Reich has generated a lot of good publicity for the Clinton administration.
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Such premature publicity could make her positively obstructive instead of merely difficult.
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This generates atmosphere and publicity if you are looking for it.
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When he made a speech in San Francisco that received local publicity but none back East, he fired ScanIon.
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With publicity over gay marriages, the debate over homosexuality and the Bible once again fills radio talk-show airwaves.