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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lawyer acts for/defends/represents sb
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a group of lawyers who represent the airline
mark/represent a shift
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The idea represents a dramatic shift in health care policy.
represent a breakthrough
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This represents a major breakthrough in the search for a cure.
represent a client
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Mead was a top attorney representing major corporate clients.
represent a minority
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Old people still only represent a minority of the population.
represent a threat
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He is not afraid, because you represent no threat to him.
represent an improvement (= be an improvement )
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A pre-tax profit of 4.3 million pounds represents a 5% improvement on last year.
represent your country
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It’s a great honour to be chosen to represent your country in a sport.
sth represents an achievement (= something is an achievement )
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Few people realised what an enormous achievement Concorde represented.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
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In placid periods this measure would represent only a very modest implicit tax on speculation.
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Political action committees, which are more active in congressional races, represented only 2 percent of the presidential campaign coffers.
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For them aircraft represent only a small part of their huge engineering and shipbuilding businesses.
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The results represented only small Steps toward equipping Taylor with the knowledge he needed to challenge the combined experience of the men.
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Anyway, they represent only a fraction of the long distance paths Britain has to offer.
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Each of these incremental shifts represents only a brief moment in geological time.
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Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 percent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects.
■ NOUN
association
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Why does government give attention to the views of the associations that represent the various groups of local authorities?
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The Tennessee Education Association , which represents 43, 000 teachers in the state, has opposed the evolution bill.
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It would be helpful if you could indicate on the attached reply slip if your Association will be represented at the meeting.
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Trade unions are associations of workers which represent their members in all negotiations with employers.
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The professional associations representing accountants sponsor numerous courses, seminars, group study programs, and other forms of continuing education.
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Twenty years later he decided to lodge an Entitlement Appeal against the decision, and nominated the Association to represent him.
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The associations which they represent can be seen in the ways in which they have been quoted by others.
attorney
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An attorney representing a client before a court helps to make the trial fair, but the attorney is not neutral.
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Saturday, Wilson also signed a measure to increase the number of defense attorneys who represent Death Row inmates in their appeals.
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The professors were not training young attorneys to represent peo-ple.
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Theodore Graham, an attorney representing the out-of-work San Diego Symphony musicians.
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But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
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I really believe that we would get an attorney and we would represent ourselves.
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As an attorney , he represented the poor Thee of charge.
challenge
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The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.
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What happened there represents a frontal challenge to how the courts, the states and the federal government administer justice.
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They represent a very real challenge to the pub traditional client base.
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I chose seven contrasting but popular sports, some I had played many times before, others representing new challenges .
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This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency.
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Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region.
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Strikes, in other words, represent a challenge to managerial authority.
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Involving professional services, these two sectors represent particular challenges in managing change.
country
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He says it's not everyone who gets a chance to represent their country .
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So far, the users represent more than 50 countries .
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They're embarrassed to have such primitive people represent the country to the rest of the world.
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Global information distribution networks represent the infrastructure crisscrossing countries and continents.
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They would like to represent their country internationally.
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They have represented their country at Under-19 level.
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She represented her country in the senior Home Internationals and was undefeated in singles.
figure
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The figure represents a rise of £848 compared to the 1991 surplus.
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But these figures do not represent real growth of the economy that people live from.
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Figure 1.1 represents the civil court structure and Figure 1.2 represents the criminal court structure.
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The figures represent 2.4 children per 1,000 in the county, compared to an average of 4.2 per 1,000 in the North-East.
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This equals the comparative cost and again the lowest figure represents the best value.
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A heavy bar below the figure represents identity across the five genes; a light bar represents a position of conservative change.
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The figures given represent an average over the year.
group
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The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.
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The group represents instead, a combination of such contrasting interests.
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Most of the other groups represent segments of the health care system, from insurers to clinics.
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It consists of a number of locally-based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented .
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Work with a group large enough to represent all the various essential interests yet small enough to still be manageable.
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This group therefore represents the most committed sports participants.
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But groups representing the disabled are threatening to disrupt the day.
increase
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Salinity has reached 14 parts per thousand which represents a 40 percent increase since 1951.
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This represents a 25 % increase over the figure for 1994, which was itself sharply higher than for 1993.
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This represents an increase of 13.4 per cent compared to the previous year's results.
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The investment by 3i represented a 73% increase over the previous year, which ended at 31 March 1990.
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At constant prices accounting for price movements, this represents a 7.6% increase , comparing favourably with last years increase of 1.6%.
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Although the figure is small, it represents a dramatic increase compared with a total of six elected officials in 1962.
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Eventhat figure represented a huge increase on previous statistics.
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This represents an increase of 10.7% on last years figure of £317.3 million.
lawyer
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It's a question that lawyers representing the two Hitachi employees wanted to pursue in open court.
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A lawyer representing the company currently servicing the loan denies Aikens' assertions.
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She thought lawyers represented ultimate respectability-they all made millions, rode in nice cars, and spoke fluently.
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They are essential reading for child care lawyers who wish to represent their clients effectively in court.
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Donald Steier, a Los Angeles lawyer who represented Llanos, said the priest maintained that he was innocent.
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The lawyer representing the team doctor, Eric Rijkaert, also gave more details of the organisation of doping within the team.
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Bernstein include clients the two lawyers represent and for whom they have won substantial judgments.
party
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The election was contested by 1,126 candidates representing 20 political parties and 219 independents.
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The republic's 245,000 registered voters were to elect deputies to the 42-seat Federal Assembly from 320 candidates representing 21 parties .
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The congress was attended by 1,176 delegates representing over 2,000,000 party members.
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The rulings were created and administered by the local law society which represents all interested professional parties .
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Most of its members represent the old party and management apparatus.
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The election was contested by over 2,700 candidates representing 79 political parties .
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Power lay in the hands of a Committee of Public Safety, which represented all local parties and institutions.
percent
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Salinity has reached 14 parts per thousand which represents a 40 percent increase since 1951.
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Either would be in sharp contrast to pre-settlement times, when pines represented 90 percent of the forest.
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This represents 10 percent . of the United Kingdom total compared with 14 percent. in July 1989.
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Third World loans represent a mere six percent of their total portfolios.
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In 1994, the public deficit represented 6 percent of national output.
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But solid coffins represent less than 10 percent of the Coop's business.
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The United States is the second most popular destination for its exchangers, representing about 20 percent of houses listed.
state
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Species, then, are real, even if they do not represent different stable states of matter.
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These, representing a powerful State , are highly interventionist, concerned with efficiency and productivity, and rationalists to the core.
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All three countries represent a state of affairs that defies predominant theories in comparative politics.
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Thus state policies and actions reflect the balance of class forces and the way that balance is represented within the state.
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But one of his students was Dan Morales, the Texas attorney general who is representing the state .
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Commissioner Zen and I represent the State .
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The chief executive, or her delegates, represents the state in its dealings with other countries.
union
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The trade union representing the workforce at these plants had threatened to go on strike if their jobs are put at risk.
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Many athletes from the former Soviet Union now represent their home nations.
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Senior officials of the four unions representing Rover workers are trying to find an alternative buyer.
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A hundred different trade unions may be represented on one site.
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It is significant that the union which represents the employed workers of Cartón has never been on strike.
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Some sacrifice, sneered the union representing the bank's 4,500 workers, before calling for wage talks.
value
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What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people.
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We think these plans represent fairness and value for all Raiders fans.
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In the first version, each card laid represents a value , such as love or luck.
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I used to pour the orange juice, which represented the added value in our products, into four separate glasses.
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This equals the comparative cost and again the lowest figure represents the best value .
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Most are heavily subsidised and represent excellent value for hard-pressed school budgets.
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The new subscription rates still represent exceptional value .
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Your new Thames Water charges still represent exceedingly good value for a continuous supply of water and our sewage services.
view
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I assume, therefore, that what he has said represents the majority view within his party.
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One is that each theory represents only a partial view of the 183 whole.
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Is it not about time that the Minister started to represent doctors' views properly?
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Andrea Seastrand, R-Calif. made an argument that seemed to represent the majority view .
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This represents a limiting view of initiative.
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But Bomer said members represented every point of view in the state.
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A machine could effectively represent the views of the population using this information.
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I found out Monday that he was representing his own views , not the organization.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let sth be/equal/represent sth
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Let c equal 6.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a top agent, Ovitz represented some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
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Each class will elect two students to represent them on the School Council.
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Einstein's theory represented a significant departure from previous theories.
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Single letters or combinations of letters represent different phonetic sounds.
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The athletes will represent China in this year's Olympic Games.
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the Congressman who represents the taxpayers of District 1
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The dummies represent average-sized adult males.
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The new law has been criticized by groups representing disabled people.
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The red lines on the map represent railways.
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There is no doubt that this new type of tyre represents a major advance in road safety.
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Trade Unions representing ambulance workers yesterday agreed to accept a 5% pay increase.
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Who is representing the defendant?
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Wilson was represented in court by a top criminal lawyer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between them, Ickes and Morris represent the uneasy coalition of the Democratic base and centrists that Clinton requires for victory.
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I wanted to spend my whole life representing these guys.
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It represents one of his assignations.
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None of the other defendants are represented yet, Singh said.
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Over the course of the preoperational stage, children increasingly attempt to represent things through drawings and their efforts become more realistic.
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This approach stems from a strongly held belief that voluntary action represents a major force for positive environmental change.