noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
doping scandal/ban/test etc
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doping offences
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The loss of this basic perspective produces the worst problems and the biggest scandal .
financial
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Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.
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His wife did not help, with her loquacity and her relatives' involvement in major financial scandals .
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But the succession of financial scandals involving the president in recent months has discredited the office of president.
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But he was also involved in a high-profile financial scandal and a messy divorce.
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At the same time, two financial scandals have damaged the government's credibility.
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Yet the world's leading democracies are all mired in financial scandals .
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That post bellum decade was ushered in by financial scandals , bank panics and a restructuring of the financial system.
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Recent financial scandals involving the use of tax havens have also led to calls for anti-tax haven legislation.
great
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If the Radnor Walk horror becomes public it would be the greatest scandal in the history of the Service.
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Unaccountably, the Opposition have not requested a statement on one of the great scandals involving Robert Maxwell.
ill
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But the worst of the scandal is that all the wrong conclusions are being drawn from it.
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Wednesday in the aftermath of one of the worst military scandals to erupt in public here in recent history.
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Lord knows, there are worse scandals that have unfolded behind those stately white columns.
major
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She prided herself on her ability to sift through the most innocent conversations and turn them into major scandals .
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Four of the five saw their administrations marred by major scandals .
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Gone, it seems, are the days when rock stars caused major scandals by being caught with dangerous drugs.
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No president since Nixon leaves office so synonymous with a major scandal .
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His wife did not help, with her loquacity and her relatives' involvement in major financial scandals .
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Throughout its history, the Federal Reserve has handled billions of dollars a day, cleanly and without a major scandal .
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Political contributions that would have been major scandals in the United States have generated only minor controversies.
national
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One incident last September became a national scandal .
political
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Royal secrets, political scandal and life after Norm - the not so Everage housewife-turned-megastar from Down Under gets intimate.
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Watergate, the political scandal that so motivated these young people, is 25 years old this year.
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However, a political scandal forced his resignation on July 6.
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Recent political scandals have tended to fall into the same dreary pattern: shocking accusation.
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Basically, the public has grown weary of a party that has seen its share of political sleaze scandals .
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As the Whitewater mess gets even messier, the Clintons seem to have accomplished something new in the annals of political scandals .
public
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The evidence is, in the case of corporate crime, that nothing much happens by way of public scandal and social ruin.
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Personal secrets have turned into public issues and, with increasing frequency, public scandals .
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Only the occasional public scandal , such as the attempt to sell the Mappa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral, disturbs the calm.
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He couldn't afford a public scandal amongst the Party leadership.
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If there's any public scandal about our marriage it will destroy me and all my work.
recent
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The evidence of recent insider dealer scandals refutes the strong form of efficiency.
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Using inside knowledge gained from twenty years in the industry she shows how recent scandals could have been avoided.
■ NOUN
bribery
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Tomás Rodríguez were currently under investigation for their part in bribery scandals involving air force contracts.
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This should last until bribery scandals had been investigated and proper environmental standards enforced, they said.
corruption
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A dozen of the company's senior executives have been caught up in the country's ever-widening corruption scandal .
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That's why these corruption scandals deserve our attention.
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The government has been plagued by repeated corruption scandals .
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However, the most disturbing corruption scandals have concerned not politicians but sportsmen.
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One idea is to revive a bill put forward in 1991, in the wake of a previous corruption scandal .
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Air Force corruption scandal Brig. -Gen.
drug
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This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal .
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In a night of frantic desperation, rumours of the drug scandal were leaking by the hour.
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No wonder so many sports fans blame television and corporate cash for the erosion of amateurism and the endless drug scandals .
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All the competitors, it seemed, had backwards baseball caps and were embroiled in drug scandals .
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Despite the drug scandal , Britain is doing well at Barcelona.
watergate
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In the Watergate scandal , obstruction of justice was number one in the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
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To them, the Watergate scandal that forced his resignation is distant history.
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Most observers believed that he caved in only because of his weakened political position due to the Watergate scandal .
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Congress has not passed comprehensive campaign finance legislation since 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal .
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It attacks the fundamental flaws and loopholes in the campaign finance regulatory system adopted in the wake of the Watergate scandal .
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But unbeknown to the public, he already was involved in covering up the Watergate scandal .
■ VERB
break
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Those parliamentary gossips still in London enduring the boredom of the silly season waited in happy expectation for the scandal to break .
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Casey died of a brain tumor before the scandal broke .
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Ever since the scandal broke , the hunt has been on for scapegoats.
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He was summarily dismissed from his job and the scandal broke on the front pages of Britain's national press.
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Could the actor really be that stupid, with the scandal breaking that morning and all?
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In the last days of 1990 a new scandal broke .
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For some days after the scandal broke , the press could find out nothing about him.
cause
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My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin; but that period with her could have been deadly for me.
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To introduce too many changes, he argued, would cause scandal among the faithful.
implicate
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Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.
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Members of all political parties, including the ex-Communists, are implicated in the scandal .
involve
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This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal .
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They have become involved in debilitating scandals and disastrous adventures following election victories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a financial scandal
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A major scandal erupted in November 1989, with the discovery that cattle in the UK and Netherlands had been given food contaminated with lead.
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a sex scandal involving senior politicians
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Have you heard the latest scandal ? Mick Green's been arrested for bribery and corruption.
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He resigned a few days after the scandal broke.
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The scandal over the deal forced the corporation's president to resign in disgrace.
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The administration has been plagued by scandal and controversy.
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The newspapers only seem interested in gossip and scandal .
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the worst spy scandal in US history
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And she will do anything to avoid another royal scandal - even if it means not seeing Charles while speculation persists.
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Another well-documented scandal has been the sale of unsuitable or dangerous medicines in the Third World.
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But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal .
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He vowed that no hint of scandal would ever be attached to him.
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The funding scandal now looks set to run and run.
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There were a number of corporate scandals, mostly involving illegal political funding.
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What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science.