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child
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The goal of child protection services became safeguarding children while also working to reunite them with their abusive parents.
future
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Five years later, in 1899, he sold it to the Trust to safeguard the future of his plot.
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You can help by joining the Research Defence Society and supporting our work to safeguard the future of biological and medical research.
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Centre safe: Cleveland County Council has safeguarded the future of the county's busiest tourist information centre for the next year.
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Even though she's only 22, she is very keen on safeguarding her future .
health
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It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.
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The Building Regulations are to safeguard the health and safety of those in and around the building.
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To safeguard their health in the meantime you could give them advice about how to reduce the risks they are taking.
interest
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The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests .
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Yet the argument that Hong Kong could learn from Macau in safeguarding its interests bears little scrutiny.
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We are dedicated to improving crop protection while safeguarding the interests of the user, consumer and the environment.
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They include setting up a new track authority and consumer committees to safeguard the interest of passengers.
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How able or willing have the courts been to safeguard prisoners' interests when conditions under the Act become intolerable?
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It is an ambiguous term, with connotations from legal practice of employing a professional to safeguard one's interests .
job
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The deal should safeguard thousands of jobs .
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And it will safeguard hundreds of jobs .
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Together, these developments are expected to create or safeguard up to 1,200 jobs .
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It will safeguard jobs for at least 3 years.
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It will also allow employers to take steps to safeguard jobs and businesses.
position
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There has been another substantial increase for 1992-93, an increase which safeguards the position of all children in Cambridgeshire.
security
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By the same token, going to war may be a way of safeguarding security in the long run.
welfare
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Doughty would admit that in order to safeguard the welfare state income tax would have to go up.
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The statutory responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of the community and children in particular often involves recourse to the courts.
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Be sure to safeguard your passport at all times.
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Effective programs are available to safeguard your data against computer viruses.
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The new legislation will safeguard the rights of low-paid workers.
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Unless we fight pollution now, we cannot safeguard our children's future.
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Filing the will with the clerk is simply a way of safeguarding it, and nothing else.
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It was always an objective of the sadly-moribund Vulcan Association that the future of the aircraft be safeguarded once retired.
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Smallfry wanted to safeguard him against danger and jealousy.
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The deal should safeguard thousands of jobs.
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The humanitarian reasons for safeguarding this provision should be sufficient in themselves.
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There are also important questions about the handling, safeguarding and transport of missile systems.
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additional
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One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards .
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Even if that is confirmed, it is often unwise not to seek additional safeguards in your contract.
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Apart from these weaknesses, the Government has seen fit to deny an additional safeguard which might have been presumed to operate.
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Genetically modified organisms: The bill provides for additional safeguards against the import, containment and release of Genetically Modified Organisms.
adequate
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Withdrawal before coming is unlikely to be an adequate safeguard as some secretions will still be exchanged.
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Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards .
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Without adequate built-in safeguards , there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help.
certain
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Dertouzos called for government regulation to prevent the linking of databases containing personal information without certain safeguards .
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With certain safeguards for patients who, for example, may require liver transplants in Philadelphia full range fundholding seems a realistic possibility.
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This was an additional reason for giving supremacy to the Constitution and for introducing certain extra safeguards into it.
environmental
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Those who anticipate that both will be granted will campaign for legislation to enforce a new schedule of environmental safeguards .
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At home the administration has abandoned a succession of environmental safeguards .
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The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.
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Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards .
nuclear
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Under nuclear proliferation safeguards , plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.
procedural
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Valuing the social benefits and costs of procedural safeguards may be equally problematic.
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One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards .
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These procedural safeguards apply to most stop and search powers not simply those exercised under the P. &038; C.E. Act.
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Formal justice and procedural safeguards are best for child-care cases, whereas informal methods suit divorce and custody disputes.
proper
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May I wish my hon. and learned Friend well in getting proper safeguards over the vexed problem of undisclosed sites?
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We must ensure that there are proper safeguards in legislation.
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build
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They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission.
provide
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Genetically modified organisms: The bill provides for additional safeguards against the import, containment and release of Genetically Modified Organisms.
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Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount.
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Early warning and fault recovery functions of the system also provide a safeguard against operational crises and the risk of human error.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anti-virus software is a simple safeguard that many computer users have not bothered to install.
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As a safeguard against misuse, memorize your PIN number immediately and destroy this advice slip.
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There's a safeguard built into the tenancy agreement that says the landlord must give you three months' notice to quit.
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It is a safeguard to permit volumes to be regarded as full when exact filling is not possible.
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Jermyn will hold the information as a personal safeguard for himself against Harold, whom he now hates.
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Life includes contact with men in a caring situation, ensuring appropriate safeguards are taken.
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One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.
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The nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union was scattered among four new countries with few safeguards.
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There are safeguards against each of these possibilities.
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We want something written into the Bill that makes it likely that some of the consumer safeguards will become a reality.