noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a public relations/PR consultant (= one who advises an organization on how to relate well to the public )
bear no relation to reality (= not match what is really happening or true )
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His vision of European politics bears no relation to reality.
bilateral relations/trade/agreements/negotiations etc
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bilateral negotiations between Israel and Syria
blood relation
community relations
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Poor community relations are more common in urban areas than in the rest of the country.
customer relations
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Staff are given training in customer relations.
establish relations/links/contact etc (with sb)
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Hungary established diplomatic relations with Chile in 1990.
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I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me.
external affairs/relations
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the Minister of External Affairs
gender relations (= the way in which men and women behave towards each other )
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The best way to understand gender relations is to study children.
industrial relations
international relations
labour relations
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a company with good labour relations
public relations exercise (= done in order to improve the relationship between the public and an organization )
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a public relations exercise
public relations
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They ran their own successful public relations business in London.
race relations
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We need to do more to promote good race relations.
Relations...normalized
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Relations between the countries were formally normalized in 1997.
restore (diplomatic) relations with sb
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Vietnam restored diplomatic relations with South Korea on December 22.
sever ties/relations/connections/links etc (with/between sb)
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The two countries severed diplomatic relations.
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She had severed all contact with her ex-husband.
strained relations
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the increasingly strained relations between the French and German governments
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bilateral
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Both countries have a stake in using the World Trade Organization and in not allowing trade disputes to poison bilateral relations .
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Although Qian was noncommittal about early normalization of bilateral relations , the meeting itself was unprecedented, and a landmark.
close
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My own wedding was a small affair with just two dozen of our closest friends and relations present.
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Much safer to stick to one's close relations .
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She said she had no close relations to bother about on her husband's side and only the Evans on hers.
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The people who had saved my life were my close relations !
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This would not preclude close working relations between purchasers and providers working closely to improve quality.
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A similarly close relation ship may be seen between ivory and some of the most important precious stones used in antiquity.
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Equally, the state has helped to maintain the structure of capital markets which promote closer relations between financial and industrial capital.
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Many have spent years establishing close working relations with officials in Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan Island.
diplomatic
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Relations with Vatican Diplomatic relations were formally restored with the Vatican on Sept. 20.
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Full diplomatic relations were established less than five months later, on February 1, 1989.
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The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations .
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The announcement led to speculation that the Soviet government was intending to restore diplomatic relations with El Salvador.
economic
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In spite of these considerations, Weber certainly did regard capitalism as a class society - economic relations form the basis of inequality.
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At the international level Aglietta argues that the principal mechanism regulating the economic relations between national states is the international financial system.
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There has been a perceived failure of old political, as well as old economic , relations .
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By the early 1980s, only pariah regimes such A similar pattern has occurred in the development of economic relations .
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Talks focused on economic relations and reaffirming ties.
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Would-be practitioners of planning did not clearly understand the constraints imposed on their activities by external economic relations and pressures.
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But what about in terms of economic relations ?
external
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Good external relations will be vital because the Freie Akademie is poor.
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It is in the internal and external trading relations of companies that the internet will have its major impact.
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It also proposed bilingual education in schools and the creation of a secretariat of external relations and an environmental agency.
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The scrupulous delimitation of state powers found no parallel in the conduct of external relations , which formed a permanent exception.
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Transmission depends not only on the external relations of the railway administrations with the government, but also on their internal structure.
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The Caucasus alone would have been enough to incline him to seek peace in external relations .
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Would-be practitioners of planning did not clearly understand the constraints imposed on their activities by external economic relations and pressures.
foreign
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Other foreign relations Relations with the Soviet Union cooled considerably during 1990.
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His appointment must be confirmed by the Senate foreign relations committee, whose chairman is now the Democrat Joe Biden.
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The desire for self-sufficiency and material security has remained a key arbiter of foreign relations .
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A junta official said recently that a dialogue is unnecessary as evidenced by improving foreign investments and relations .
good
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Importance of good personal relations with other staff.
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They also were good listeners and skilled communicators, had good human relations skills, and were keenly interested in the subject.
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Whipping between neighbouring families is a sign of friendship and good relations .
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It is therefore good human relations to make sure that the other party in any important relationship continues to receive appropriate rewards.
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Forward-looking companies realise a good atmosphere at work and good relations with colleagues are crucial to hanging on to staff.
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I assume that I will continue to have good relations with the board.
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But this had to be reconciled with the need for good relations with the oil-rich Arab countries.
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This exercise will demonstrate why it is difficult to be regarded as good at human relations .
human
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This concept refers to the way ideology covers up contradictions and how it legitimizes by treating human social relations as things.
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They also were good listeners and skilled communicators, had good human relations skills, and were keenly interested in the subject.
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This is examined in the next chapter and it forms the basis of the human relations approach to organisations.
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They will also receive an unexpected lesson in human relations .
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He treated all human relations of any depth on a par with the confessional.
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This linking of the human relations approach with scientific management targets will provide the recipe for effective performance.
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Vitamin C.. Good human relations begin with the understanding that every person is unique.
industrial
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Such variables are too specific to industrial relations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder.
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There is evidence that higher levels within organisations have an important influence on workplace personnel and industrial relations practices.
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A general policy not to consult with employees of, say, a particular grade, runs contrary to good industrial relations .
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We have also legislated five times to transform industrial relations , returning power from militants to ordinary union members.
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Nationalization in the transport industries produced neither outstanding industrial relations nor employee commitment.
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It contrasts markedly with similar past projects which often suffered from appalling industrial relations and were sometimes years late.
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However, a possible limitation of this approach is that industrial relations variables are themselves frequently clustered into national contexts.
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A brief overview of comparative industrial relations in Chapter 10 completes the book.
international
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Overall, the crux of this six-point programme is the claim that Realism is a scientific way of thinking about international relations .
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States form an interlocking network of bilateral and multilateral treaty relationships, which reinforces the interdependence that characterises contemporary international relations .
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Modern and contemporary history: International relations .
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The media tell it whenever they present international relations as a dramatic encounter between world leaders who personify their countries.
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She will take a two-year M Phil in international relations .
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In its place, Carr proposed an approach that saw international relations as they were, rather than as they might be.
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Chapter 5 asks whether it is possible to develop a theory of international relations wholly at the level of the international system.
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He has a degree in economics and international relations , works for the government, and has travelled abroad.
poor
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Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation .
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Some people underestimate the problems that can arise from poor human relations .
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I enquired about poor relations , in case anyone thought they had been done out of all this prosperity.
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Bill Wyman's Framus Star bass is another example of a poor relation whose profile rocketed alongside the fame of its player.
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Pauken, whose late-starting campaign caught people by surprise, has poor relations with Texas elected officials, particularly Gov.
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The figures for 1988 graduates suggest that the polys are still poor relations .
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Proposed changes in the clinical career structure should make clinical nursing less of a poor relation in terms of financial recognition and status.
public
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Even worse, some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts.
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Their public image is all important. Public relations and advertising gurus have taken over the dialogue.
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In theory it was mainly a public relations job.
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She joined Hearst in 1985 as vice president, director of public relations for the Magazines Division.
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Armstrong thought the society's problems were too intractable even for his prodigious public relations skills, and turned down the offer.
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In fact, you could say the average public relations executive's world is littered with messages to send the client.
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In a major public relations push, Pillsbury boosted the prize this year to $ 1 million.
social
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These are new antagonisms which emerge as social conflict is diffused to more social relations .
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Autonomy of reasoning and affect continues to develop in social relations that encourage mutual respect.
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Critical rationality could not be a property of individuals; it was a product of a certain set of social relations .
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In so far as socialism means the collective ownership and management of the economy and social relations , it requires an extensive administrative apparatus.
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Fourthly, ideology legitimizes social relations and covers over contradictions in the material relations of social being.
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These social relations are specifically class relations that replicate the domination of nature in the domination of one class by another.
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Progress he argued was held back or deformed by the contradictions between the social relations of production and the forces of production.
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The task of bureaucracy was precisely to maintain a system of social relations which consolidate class domination.
■ NOUN
gender
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Firestone's view of gender relations as determined by reproduction is the clearest case.
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Legal forms not only constitute gender relations but represent ways of seeing roles and relations.
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Where did this leave everyone else in the gender relations business?
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An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations .
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The power exerted over black and women patients is inevitably a manifestation of larger race, class and gender relations .
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Humanist psychologists realize that gender relations affect this subject.
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Feminism, like psychology, is structured around a defined object, gender relations .
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The reproduction of gender relations is neither outside the class system nor is it reducible to it.
labour
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New labour relations are being introduced in industries where they were technologically or politically unthinkable a decade ago.
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Critics were quick to blame the government for the new levels of strife and violence in labour relations .
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Over the past 12 years, we have transformed labour relations .
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Informal labour relations tend to be more exploitative than those within the legitimate economy.
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He believes this is the result of a highly-educated and willing workforce with an excellent labour relations record.
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The Authority also had specific powers over the retail tariffs and labour relations machinery of the Area Boards.
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Some industries acquired chairmen with a reputation for cost-cutting and a tough stand on labour relations .
power
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In spite of victory, Britain's participation in two world wars accelerated social changes, altering both social attitudes and power relations .
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Lest it be forgotten, in power relations , one can get burned!
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In terms of power relations , the odds were stacked against him.
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The international economic system is a ratified system of power relations .
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The other way in which he could compensate for unfavourable power relations was through effective public relations.
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They believed that the federal government was sponsoring a threatening rearrangement of local power relations .
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The cocoa trade provides a stark reflection of the power relations behind South-North trade.
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I told him it was really about power relations .
race
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Last week's story coincided with the report on race relations in Brixton prison.
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It won the Shomburg Award for race relations in 1944.
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The region could face action for breaches of race relations and education acts if the commission upheld complaints it has received.
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None the less, no positive action to improve race relations in Washington was taken.
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This is a story of continuing progress, from the barbarity of slavery to the enlightenment of the contemporary race relations industry.
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The rancorous case has been a political and emotional flashpoint for the city and a barometer of race relations in New York.
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A new race relations act had been introduced, supposedly to counter white racism.
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As mayor of Indianapolis, he grappled with race relations during the turbulent 1960s.
■ VERB
bear
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The original base figure which is adjusted annually may bear no relation to the true needs of the department.
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The punishment in this instance is not arbitrary; it bears some relation to the punishable behavior.
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The yardage on the card often bears little relation to the club you select.
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It bore no relation to the equivalent of aerodynamic facts, namely, anthropological evidence as a whole.
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They bear little enough relation to the land that now lies west of Jerusalem.
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Numbers also bear an important relation to people.
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Thus housekeeping allowances might bear little relation to the portion of the husband's net income devoted to collective expenditure.
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This bull market bears no relation to that gambling spree.
break
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Nyerere was the first to break off relations .
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Moscow has already threatened to break diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes a Chechen diplomatic office.
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I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb, but they'd all broken off diplomatic relations .
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Astonishingly, Pound did not break off relations .
establish
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Kostunica has said that he accepts the Dayton borders, and wishes to establish diplomatic relations with Bosnia.
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In the eighties the two countries began to establish trade relations .
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Many have spent years establishing close working relations with officials in Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan Island.
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An interstate council was to be established to monitor relations between the states and central government.
improve
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He also vowed to maintain ties with the United States while continuing to improve relations with the Soviet Union.
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A junta official said recently that a dialogue is unnecessary as evidenced by improving foreign investments and relations .
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And they send over their secretary of state to praise you for trying to improve relations and then they resume financial assistance.
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Political revenge can be sweet, but it does not improve relations across the aisle or across town.
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Local police officers will be encouraged to attend to improve local relations .
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He says his aim is not to harass police, but to improve relations between law enforcement and the public.
maintain
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Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders.
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For the most part members of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of these states maintain good relations with countries hostile to the Soviet Union.
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Whether one person will permit or maintain social relations with another is a matter with which government has no concern.
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Notice that we maintain the relation COURSE-MODULE.
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She did everything possible to maintain excellent relations with her immediate supervisor.
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The Profitboss seeks profit by maintaining excellent relations with suppliers, staff, customers and colleagues alike.
restore
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The key to restoring any damaged relation ship is the willingness of both parties to try. 9.
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She had set much store by retaining or restoring her relations with these men, and thought she knew why.
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As Carr pointed out, it was impossible to restore market relations in agriculture without doing the same for industry.
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At the end of their meeting it was announced that an agreement had been reached to restore full consular relations .
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The announcement led to speculation that the Soviet government was intending to restore diplomatic relations with El Salvador.
strain
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In the event the idea was allowed to drop because the Emperor realized it would strain relations with Britain.
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The Chirac-Kohl coolness forms part of a growing pattern of strained personal relations among world leaders.
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Clinton put the emphasis on smoothing strained relations .
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At the same time, overcrowding aggravates strained relations , Freeman said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
East-West relations/trade etc
bear a resemblance/relation to sb/sth
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Bellow supported Roth's early work, and Roth's work was to bear a resemblance to Bellow's.
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The medical model is explicit: Teaching bears a resemblance to the practice of medicine.
carnal knowledge/relations
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But carnal knowledge sours his relationship with his clients, and paradise is lost.
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It is the threesome of snake, Eve, and Adam which, according to the Bible, makes for carnal knowledge.
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The fruit was carnal knowledge, and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it.
close relation/relative
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All of its close relatives except one make the whine but not the chuck.
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Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders.
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Because, they argued, the males in coalitions were almost always close relatives, kin selection enhanced the benefits of cooperation.
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But they are thinking about commercial applications for the chanterelle and its close relative, the Tricholoma matsutake.
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Financial need, even on the part of a close relative, has apparently never been seen as a situation which required an automatic response.
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It may also be powerful between close relatives where one may be in a dominant position vis-à-vis the other.
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The people who had saved my life were my close relations!
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We let grandparents and other close relatives and friends enter and touch the infant, if the parents wish.
diplomatic relations/ties
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A large part of his wealth is in a country with which Britain does not have diplomatic relations.
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Bonn has not cut official diplomatic relations with Baghdad but it withdrew all diplomatic personnel long ago.
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Kostunica has said that he accepts the Dayton borders, and wishes to establish diplomatic relations with Bosnia.
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Stories, however, have circulated that the Bush administration may be more open than was President Clinton to resuming diplomatic relations.
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That cooperation was crucial for the Clinton administration to win congressional support to lift a wartime trade embargo and normalize diplomatic relations.
near relative/relation
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Again, applications may be made by the nearest relative or an approved social worker and two medical recommendations are required.
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Also, as Sheila Silcock's article highlights, the nearest relative may be unaware of their rights under the Act.
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As the nearest relative, I have found the care team bound by rules of confidentiality which limit communication.
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Further protostome diversification led to a plexus of annelids, molluscs and near relatives.
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In 1357 he is required by statute to entrust the administration of the property to the near relations of the deceased.
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Specially trained staff interviewed the parents or the nearest relative of any study child who died.
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The informant was expected usually to be the person's nearest relative. 3.
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The three woodpeckers are different from their nearest relatives in Java and Borneo.
poor relation
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Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation.
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Build quality and sound are as good as I expected, so these guitars are definitely not poor relations.
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I enquired about poor relations, in case anyone thought they had been done out of all this prosperity.
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In the considered opinion of many experts this poor relation of the industry will probably take 80% of the market by volume.
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It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations.
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Pauken, whose late-starting campaign caught people by surprise, has poor relations with Texas elected officials, particularly Gov.
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She moved in this atmosphere not quite as an equal, but not quite as a poor relation, either.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the course described to you seems to bear no relation to these criteria do make further enquiries.
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Not really the thing for good intercompany relations.
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Over the past 12 years, we have transformed labour relations.
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The other friends were all Parisian except for a young couple, Rumanians living in Paris, distant relations of Teodor.
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Two-thirds of management boards by 1987 included a senior manager with primary responsibility for promoting service quality and consumer relations.