adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be widely available (= available in many places )
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Organic food is now widely available.
be widely condemned (= by many people, groups etc )
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The laws have been widely condemned by human rights groups.
be widely criticized
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The proposal was widely criticized.
be widely shared (= shared by a lot of people )
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This view is now widely shared.
be widely/evenly distributed
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This species of dolphin is widely distributed throughout the world.
be widely/generally acknowledged to be sth
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The mill produces what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool in the world.
be widely/generally/commonly held (= be the opinion of a lot of people )
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This view is not widely held.
considerably/greatly/widely
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The amount of food available varies considerably from season to season.
differ considerably/widely/substantially (= greatly )
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Opinions differ widely on the best way to do this.
generally/widely/universally etc accepted
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generally accepted principles of fairness and justice
grin broadly/widely
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He walked out of the pool, grinning widely.
highly/widely/universally acclaimed
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The book has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils.
ranged widely
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The discussion ranged widely .
richly/extremely/widely etc varied
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A good teacher is aware of the extremely varied needs of each student.
travel widely/extensively
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He travelled extensively in Europe studying geology.
well/widely/highly publicized (= receiving a lot of attention )
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His visit was highly publicized.
widely believed (= believed by a lot of people )
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The four men are widely believed to have been killed by their captors.
widely blamed (= blamed by many people )
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The decision to increase interest rates was widely blamed for the crisis.
widely disseminated
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Her findings have been widely disseminated .
widely read (= read by a lot of people )
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Her books are quite widely read .
widely regarded as (= considered by many people to be )
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Edith was widely regarded as eccentric.
widely respected
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Johnson was widely respected as a critic.
widely rumoured
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a young man widely rumoured to be her lover
widely scattered
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a widely scattered set of islands
widely unpopular
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The party promised to abolish this widely unpopular tax.
widely/strongly/hotly tipped
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He had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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Health education and nutritional information are widely available to everyone.
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Jalapefio: The most widely available hot chili, jalapenos can be either green or red.
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Courses and workshops on the topic are widely available .
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Dried juniper berries are widely available in whole berry form, about half the size of small blueberries.
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Interpet products are widely available in the aquatic trade, in case of difficulty contact Another internal power filter comes to us from Eheim.
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Pickling is a very old technique that was used to preserve game birds before refrigeration was widely available .
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Low voltage lights are widely available and simple to install with no worries about safety.
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The World Wide Web, for instance, became popular and widely available in 1993 on most local ISPs.
different
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However, different grape varieties produce wines of widely different character.
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Any grocer knows that fruits have widely different shelf lives, even with refrigeration.
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The barn owl and kestrel samples examined here were drawn from widely different parts of their global range.
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There are two widely different versions of Barneys relationship with Isetan.
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Generally, different theories are used to explain widely different phenomena, from the forces in the atom to gravity.
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One of these is that there will inevitably be widely different reading speeds.
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Other synthetic polymers are chemically rather more complicated but, elastically, apparently not very widely different .
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Other people, in widely different cultures and circumstances, have had a very similar experience.
differing
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But while axeheads from different societies may perform widely differing social functions, the axeheads themselves may be almost identical.
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Seven teachers of widely differing experience each taught five one-hour lessons to an individual pupil while being recorded on videotape.
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In many countries militias of widely differing efficiency existed.
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Intuitively, we should not expect widely differing results from these two measures in the assessment of portfolios.
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The availability of two variable transformer ratios allows even more widely differing impedances to be compared than is possible with single-transformer bridges.
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The conference produced some lively debate and occasionally some widely differing viewpoints.
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Himself a traditional artist, he recommended a variety of colleagues of widely differing styles, including Epstein and Stanley Spencer.
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Underlying her concern is the widely differing approach to discrimination north and south of the border.
used
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Though reportedly not the widely used SoftPC, it is based, Ledbetter said, on SoftPC 3.0.
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Consequently mortality is the oldest and most widely used index of health status.
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Although it is less widely used than it once was, it is found in some bronchodilators and cough mixtures.
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This paper is a document for public use, and can be widely used .
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It is for such customers that we have listed the properties of Matroc's more widely used materials.
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It does, however, present a number of operational difficulties that require basic research before it can be widely used .
■ VERB
accept
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That is widely accepted by all those involved in health and safety both in Britain and throughout the world.
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I had memorized those few facts widely accepted by Princeton undergraduates to be part of an investment banking interview survival kit.
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The importance of incremental learning in some aspects of the curriculum is now widely accepted .
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Today, the lack of a widely accepted cultural tradition for giving the necessary support after childbirth puts many families at risk.
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The Eurocheque is widely accepted in shops and other establishments abroad check with your bank for details.
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Major credit cards are also widely accepted .
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However, through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists.
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Stricter morals also were more widely accepted in those days.
acclaim
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That widely acclaimed fiasco, the Millennium Dome?
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The pamphlet was widely acclaimed and a second edition produced.
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The new drugs were widely acclaimed , as so many other medical and surgical procedures had been.
acknowledge
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Nor has the potential and positive contribution of musicians been widely acknowledged in the process of reform.
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In short, the lack of business transaction security is widely acknowledged as a major impediment to widespread ecommerce.
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There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.
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Its theatre, since the mid 1950s, has been widely acknowledged the world's wonder.
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Of all workers' complaints, the justice of those over truck seem to have been most widely acknowledged .
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Making technical estimates of risk is widely acknowledged to be extremely tricky, with endless scope for disagreement amongst the experts.
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Generally, they have been welcomed: their potential for enriching the curriculum is widely acknowledged .
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Social class is a major behavioural determinant of consumer buying behaviour, and its importance is widely acknowledged by marketers.
adopt
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Soon, the fame of Dunlop cheese spread throughout the county and the process was adopted widely .
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If widely adopted , and steadfastly supported, it could achieve revolutionary progress throughout defense management.
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Stock options are essentially an accounting anomaly, without which they would never have been so widely adopted .
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A society that widely adopts this attitude is in trouble.
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This had already been widely adopted as the name of a higher school.
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We believe that both these disasters could be averted if the approach we have outlined were adopted widely .
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Comment Lord Diplock's approach has been widely adopted .
assume
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It is widely assumed that the more efficiently a stock market functions the better off everyone is.
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It is widely assumed that a patronage system results in a government run by unqualified people.
become
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They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope.
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It soon became widely accepted that Mercury, like the Moon facing Earth, always kept the same side facing the Sun.
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The booklet is revised annually and has become widely recognised as one of the best guides available for local groups.
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Still in its infancy, iridology has none the less become widely available to those who seek less traditional methods.
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Only when Brearley demonstrated that the problem could be solved by carefully controlled heat treatment did the stainless-steel knife become widely used.
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It will be years before these new methods are thoroughly tested and, if beneficial, become widely available.
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Such statements, though frequently unjustified, indicate the extent to which rhetoric of this kind had become widely acceptable.
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The gang became widely known after a shootout that injured six children at a community pool four years ago.
believe
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The guidelines are widely believed to reflect the personal antipathy towards animal experiments of the foundation's chairman, Lord Wolfson.
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It was widely believed that he had been fired by the Board of Higher Education.
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He was widely believed in the Arab world.
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No one attempted to rescue him because it was widely believed that Farini had concocted the entire accident.
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Today it is widely believed that the dream of escape can come true at last.
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Political observers widely believe Perot is backing the Reform Party as a vehicle that would allow him to seek the presidency again.
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It was widely believed to cause cancer, insanity and freckles.
blame
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Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis.
circulate
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Nevertheless their Bible was widely circulated not only among the middle classes but among the nobility.
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The daily broadsheet circulates widely in the Arab world and among Arabs living in the West.
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The consultative paper was widely circulated and was received with mixed feelings.
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The examination timetable has been widely circulated but if any one wishes a copy please telephone your request to the examinations department.
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Both were widely circulated and well received.
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By the end of the month it had been codified into a document which was widely circulated for study among work groups.
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International speakers regularly contribute and the papers presented are widely circulated .
consider
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But the six categories listed are widely considered to include nearly all the circumstances in which an employer might want to snoop.
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The experiment, which continues, is widely considered a roaring success.
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We will consider widely to ensure smooth implementation.
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Before Reagan turned on the waterworks, crying in public was widely considered a sign of weakness.
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In fact, most of our higher education system is customer-driven, and it is widely considered the best in the world.
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Forward Mia Hamm is widely considered the best female soccer player in the world.
criticize
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The target has been widely criticized as too low.
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This money is not usually distributed on a truly competitive basis, a process that is widely criticized .
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Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred.
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The King was also widely criticized for in effect putting his conscience above his role as head of state.
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The budget was widely criticized as being unrealistic and irrelevant to the real needs of the eastern economy.
differ
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Where dates differ widely from the results announcements, this is referred to in the footnotes as an alternative dividend announcement.
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Margarines are available at widely differing costs, with the most expensive ones being twice as costly as the least expensive ones.
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Dictionaries differ widely in their style and content, and this has been shown to affect recognition performance.
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Thus launch windows to Mars differ widely in their attractiveness.
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Individuals can differ widely in their scores and this makes direct comparisons between them difficult.
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This is the case of choosing from among mutually exclusive projects with widely differing costs.
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These statutes differ widely as to their aims and methods.
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Scholars differ widely , and will no doubt continue to do so.
discuss
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This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken.
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One such plan was widely discussed as the decade neared its end.
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These three books cover that same spectrum while discussing widely disparate topics.
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Perhaps the most widely discussed reform is a flat tax.
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One possible case of paired impacts has been widely discussed in connection with the Cretaceous extinction event.
disperse
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They are widely dispersed and are engaged in a wide variety of activities.
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When a user browses the Web, objects are retrieved in rapid succession from often widely dispersed servers.
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Such papers are widely dispersed at present, in specialist clinical, radiological, pathological, and epidemiological journals.
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The suspicions of some are also aroused by weekend get-togethers of Volunteers working in widely dispersed communities.
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At other times, the animals will disperse widely .
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When cash flows are widely dispersed , M 2 will be a large number.
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The widely dispersed suburbs proved less hospitable to party machines than the closely packed cities.
disseminate
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The text has achieved great influence, disseminated widely among senior officers, and taught formally at the Bramshill Police College.
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This means, of course, that the criteria must be widely disseminated and widely accepted.
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In this way, new ideas would be widely disseminated .
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The guidelines may not have been sufficiently widely disseminated , or they may have been viewed as impractical or unrealistic.
distribute
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By 1086, Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands.
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As the rodents scurry about eating Douglas fir seed, their droppings are distributed widely in the burned area of a forest.
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Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school.
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They produced cartoons that were distributed widely in Southern California that showed Karenga and his comrades gloating about the murders.
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They are embodied in unpublished theses, research reports of limited circulation or in monographs and journals which are not widely distributed .
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As Rowe notes, pictures of the crackdown were not widely distributed at the time.
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The papers can be distributed widely amongst students.
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A highly decentralized and widely distributed organization may require a number of such people.
expect
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The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now.
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Harriman, ambassador in Paris since 1993, was widely expected to be departing this summer.
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Intuitively, we should not expect widely differing results from these two measures in the assessment of portfolios.
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The widely expected decision had little impact on financial markets.
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He was widely expected to visit the province last week but ongoing talks made insufficient progress.
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Ten Network is widely expected to float this year.
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But the maternity unit is widely expected to close at the end of this month.
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Meara, a 22-year veteran of the force, topped the examination process and is widely expected to be named chief Friday.
hold
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Fears of revolution and subversion were widely held in 1880.
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Its widely held Class B shares fell 1 1 / 4 to 39, their 52-week low.
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This is a view that is widely held by those around the court itself.
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The two most widely held theories are stark expressions of political and ethnic hatreds.
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Indeed, a political belief that is widely held might be particularly immune to careful assessment.
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There is a widely held view that Los Angeles simply went out to the Owens Valley and stole its water.
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He said this could foil the widely held expectation that cable and telephone companies will become chief competitors.
interpret
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This was widely interpreted by opposition parties as indicating a switch to economic conservatism.
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Bush's choice of Cheney was therefore widely interpreted as a safety-first move.
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The compromise that would reopen the government was widely interpreted in the press as Republicans caving in.
know
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This is more widely known to geomorphologists by its Germanic corruption, Karst.
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The organisation of Co-Workers is not widely known , as they are forbidden to engage in publicity or fund-raising.
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It's widely known - because the unions have publicized it - that the Department is looking at bailing out Huerter Textiles.
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The gang became widely known after a shootout that injured six children at a community pool four years ago.
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Why is this, when the arguments against smoking are so widely known ?
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It had to be known by employees to do their jobs and was widely known by relatively junior members of staff.
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In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service.
perceive
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A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article.
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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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A second important barrier is that factoring is widely perceived to be expensive.
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The President was widely perceived , by this time, as having gone from blunder to blunder.
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Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock are widely perceived to be liabilities to their parties.
publicize
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There had been pressure enough coming into the Sydney Games surrounding her widely publicized goal of winning five gold medals.
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Their trip was widely publicized in the press and everybody in the country seemed to know about it.
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Each side exaggerated and widely publicized the acts of barbarism and cruelty committed by the opponent.
range
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It is fair to say that the disposals ranged widely from the good to the very poor.
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The brownfields range widely in size, from half-acre former gas stations to 700-acre shuttered steel plants.
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Outside the breeding season, the terns are pelagic, ranging widely over the oceans.
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The discussion began to range widely in the field of personal morals.
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In San Francisco, they range widely in size.
read
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Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in.
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The older works listed first are still widely read and most are generally available in both hardcover and paperback.
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In one sense, it simply reflects the notion of getting students to read widely in and around their subject.
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Hawke reads widely , and he writes.
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The spelling is frequently eccentric, and remained so all his life, although he read widely and voraciously.
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They were hugely popular and widely read .
recognised
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It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse.
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Bankers Trust's ability to advise them or you on cross-border transactions is widely recognised .
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Without any widely recognised accreditation system, the consumer has been left to investigate the credentials of an operator themselves.
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The booklet is revised annually and has become widely recognised as one of the best guides available for local groups.
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H pylori was not examined because its importance in duodenal ulcer disease was not widely recognised when this study was being planned.
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None the less, the central importance of interest rates is widely recognised .
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Advantage uses the widely recognised 1000 Watt Metal Halide Lamps for its illumination.
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Levels of occurrence are widely recognised as unacceptable, and research into ways of combating this must be undertaken.
recognize
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The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world.
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The impact hazard is again widely recognized .
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As the overall shape of wage profiles are widely recognized why do workers not stay longer with one firm?
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They indicate to employers the skills of job applicants and provide workers with a widely recognized credential.
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It is now more widely recognized , leading to earlier diagnosis.
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According to Scarf: It is now widely recognized that the family is a rule-governed system.
regard
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As a member of the politburo's military faction he was widely regarded as a conservative.
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Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive.
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The Russells are widely regarded as kind, trusting people, entirely without malice.
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Burger King is widely regarded as the quality fast food hamburger restaurant chain.
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Clark, a former political scientist widely regarded as cool and aloof, seemed transformed by power.
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The handling of the whole referendum affair was widely regarded by commentators as a humiliation for Tudjman's administration.
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Its scenery is widely regarded as being among the best in the country.
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As a result, the waste is in danger of continuing to be stored in what are widely regarded as inadequate facilities.
report
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It has been widely reported that Dipendra was frustrated because his parents did not want him to marry Rana.
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Though it was widely reported Prophet had predicted a Soviet nuclear strike, the church said the exercise was merely a drill.
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The case opened a month later and was widely reported in both national and local newspapers.
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Ever since, it has been widely reported .
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By the mid 1990s this problem was being widely reported and had acquired a name: relapse.
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Some of these experiments were reported widely in the media.
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This cosmological event was widely reported in the news media, in the wake of which I heard three paradigmatic responses.
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And this notion was widely reported in the news media.
respect
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Although not formally trained as a historian of ancient art, Ortiz's scholarship is widely respected .
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He was widely respected for his work as special master in chancery in the Minnesota Railroad Rate cases in 1910.
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Examples are constitutions, revered leaders, widely respected media or books, and religious teachings.
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She has been an excellent academic vice chancellor, and I think she is widely respected .
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A major and widely respected statement of the philosophy and application of the scientific method.
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Although Lugar is widely respected by his colleagues, the Hoosier failed to develop a compelling campaign.
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Andrew Greeley is a widely respected sociologist of religion.
scatter
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The rocks were widely scattered in the process.
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Occasionally, the only possible controls are widely scattered or are unlikely to cooperate with a program that offers nothing in return.
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Most of our countries are very small and are widely scattered .
see
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On the contrary, patterns of patronage and marketing ensured that it was the most widely seen and reproduced of all.
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How successful it is and how widely seen it is determines how long a shadow it casts and for how much time.
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Not withstanding Gore's insistence that his decision was based on personal considerations, the decision was widely seen as of great political significance.
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Akayev was widely seen as a democrat and as eager to develop contacts with capitalist countries.
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Is not Mao, even now, widely seen as a benign or at least a faintly comic figure?
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He has been accused of smuggling weapons and of crimes against national security -- charges widely seen as politically motivated.
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His achievement of only 7 percent of the vote was widely seen as a decisive rejection of his racially oriented campaign.
separate
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Suppose two such protons, A and B, are allowed to separate widely apart.
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Encounters of this stream with Earth therefore can occur at two distinct, widely separated times of year.
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Do not confuse it with the Beta-Zeta pair, which is more widely separated .
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The father or elder brother makes important decisions for the whole extended family even if members are widely separated geographically.
share
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The relationship between music and the spiritual and emotional aspects of healing is widely shared .
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These four key elements are well developed and widely shared within the research communities of every natural and applied science.
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It may well be a belief which has been and still is, widely shared by top industrialists themselves.
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Helms' enthusiasm for Albright was widely shared .
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This view is now widely shared .
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However foolish they had come to seem, his instincts had been widely shared .
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Information was being shared widely with social workers and social services agencies.
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Alternately, the same participative emphasis may be irrelevant in an organization in which power is already widely shared .
spread
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These advances, which have had an impact in both basic and applied research, are again spread widely among the disciplines.
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Word spread widely and quickly, through the networks, even through underground comic books where the illiterate could read them.
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They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and have a range of distinctive characters to help the investigator in his identifications.
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Skilled artisans are employed by private entrepreneurs in units mainly of cottage-proportions, widely spread in villages and small towns.
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His innovation spread widely and quickly.
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During the first half of the eighteenth century no other sect was as widely spread as the Quakers.
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They noted that the virus may not have had time to spread widely .
travel
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He travelled widely in connection with the company's business and contributed many technical papers which earned him an international reputation.
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Lachlan travelled widely that spring, trying to escape Marion's poisoned sweetness.
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Foreign relations Leading Czechoslovak government figures travelled widely to forge new international agreements.
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This means that he travelled widely and explored the East in which he was interested.
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Before we get there we shall have travelled widely , and seen many places and many things.
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She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth.
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He travelled widely in the early 1970s, probably more widely than any other world leader.
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By night she travels widely throughout her territory - often approaching farmsteads and villages.
use
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Filtered blood is widely used to treat recurrent non-haemolytic febrile reactions in patients who depend on regular blood transfusions.
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Commas Commas are perhaps the most widely used and abused form of punctuation.
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Predatory pricing has been widely used by both incumbents and entrants to the eurobond markets.
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Those texts still are widely used elsewhere as new curricula and books are written and debated.
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Footpath erosion is also a common feature of landscapes that are widely used by walkers.
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The Tesla coil, which he invented in 1891, is still widely used in radio and television sets.
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Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere, while paraffin is widely used in the third world.
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It is still widely used , although not so frequently as before.
vary
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Admittedly, where it is used for mass vaccination its reported efficacy has varied widely , as detailed by Citron.
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The performance of life insurers will vary widely , although all are expected to post declines.
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Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely .
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Forms of land tenure varied widely from one region to another in Piedmont.
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True, they had widely varying degrees of independence and security.
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Yet the degree to which this goal is important to people varies widely within societies and among different cultures.
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However, the delivery schedules, billing arrangements and quantity of produce and mix of vegetables and fruits vary widely .
view
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There his trip was widely viewed , even by members of his government, as an embarrassment.
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Merrill is widely viewed as one of the greatest of his generation of post-war poets in the United States.
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That interpretation was widely viewed as favoring business over minority and female employees attempting to charge job discrimination.
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Wilson is not widely viewed as a sentimental, Don Juan sort of guy.
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This was widely viewed as a reprisal for the reporting of Gough.
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The Fed chairman is widely viewed as an anti-inflation hawk.
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The compromise was widely viewed as a victory for the president, who had stood firm against Republican demands.
welcome
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It was the first time the state's highest court had debated the point and was widely welcomed by accountants.
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Mr Adams's defeat in the only Northern Ireland seat to change hands was widely welcomed by nationalist and Unionist politicians.
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The series has been widely welcomed and used, and a number of its volumes are being reissued in a different format.
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The abolition of the poll tax is widely welcomed until we consider what will replace it - simply more of the same.
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That initiative has been widely welcomed .
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My statement was widely welcomed by hon. Members on both sides of the House.
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It has been widely welcomed by the organisations of and for disabled people outside the House.
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Such an approach would be widely welcomed .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-read/widely-read
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A hundred years ago it was widely believed that there was life on Mars.
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Asbestos was once widely used in the building industry.
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At one time it was widely believed that the sun revolved around the Earth.
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Copies of the report have been made widely available.
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Silicon Valley is widely known as California's high-tech center.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually, estimates for the ratio of public spending to National Income vary widely , depending on the definitions used for each item.
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And the wind loads can vary widely from one part of the building to another.
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For such widely based indices, it is often not possible to short sell the index.
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In the post-Bains era corporate structures have been widely adopted.
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One of these is that there will inevitably be widely different reading speeds.
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The Fed chairman is widely viewed as an anti-inflation hawk.