adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a common/general/widespread assumption
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There’s a common assumption that science is more difficult than other subjects.
a common/popular/widespread belief (= that a lot of people believe )
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There is a common belief that educational standards are declining.
a common/widespread/frequent complaint
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A common complaint of children is that parents do not listen to them.
a widespread misunderstanding (= a misunderstanding that many people share )
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There is a widespread misunderstanding of the purpose of the law.
a widespread rumour
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The arrests followed widespread rumours of police corruption.
extensive/widespread (= covering a large area )
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Because of the size of the bomb, the damage was extensive.
extensive/wide/widespread coverage
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Newpapers and magazines have wide coverage of diet and health topics.
general/popular/widespread expectations (= shared by a lot of people )
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The general expectation was for married couples to have children.
severe/widespread famine
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Widespread famine had triggered a number of violent protests.
widespread anger (= among many people )
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The decision to build the airport has provoked widespread anger.
widespread concern
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There seems to be widespread concern about the state of our hospitals.
widespread corruption
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The election campaign was marred by widespread corruption.
widespread criticism
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There was widespread criticism of his speech.
widespread destruction
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The rains caused widespread destruction to crops.
widespread discontent
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There is widespread discontent at the quality of education.
widespread opposition (= opposition from many people or in many places )
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Journalists have reported widespread opposition to the regime.
widespread resentment (= felt by a lot of people or in many places )
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The actions of the police during the miners' strike caused widespread resentment.
widespread speculation
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There was widespread speculation about his political plans.
widespread unemployment (= in many places )
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The collapse of the currency led to widespread unemployment.
widespread unrest (= existing in many places or among many people )
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As prices soared, there was widespread unrest.
widespread/extensive use (= when something is used in many places or situations, or among many people )
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The widespread use of computers changed business completely.
widespread/wide popularity (= with a lot of people, or in many places )
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Astrology enjoyed widespread popularity.
widespread/wide publicity
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The scandal had received widespread publicity.
widespread/wide/general support
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There is widespread support for the Government’s proposal.
wide/widespread/extensive consultation (= involving a lot of people, groups etc )
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Strong recommendations were made after wide consultation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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This year's Royal Show showed how widespread this move to cut costs is.
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We see here how widespread and deadly is the net of secularisation that has been cast.
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That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.
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Many other films released at this time showed how widespread were the skills developed by Hepworth.
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One of the burning questions as I slowly began to learn about the disease, was how widespread was it within me?
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Through the report, Tickle illustrated how widespread the problem is.
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Until recently, it was not appreciated how widespread this kind of behaviour is, mainly because of the difficulty of egg-detection.
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Yvonne was so shocked at how widespread the problem was that she has installed a hotline in her gym.
more
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The use of the Official Secrets Act against government employees and others became more widespread .
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Why this didn't happen in a more widespread fashion in Tucson, I can't possibly imagine.
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Meanwhile, a different and much more widespread tradition of timekeeping survived involving the use of fire and incense.
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Stony deserts and mountainsides, much more widespread than Lichtenstein's.
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Concern about nephrotoxicity has been the major factor limiting more widespread investigational use of cyclosporin in ulcerative colitis.
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In the earlier phase the coin is concentrated in Kent, but later they have a more widespread distribution.
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But other forms eventually arose which were able to extract hydrogen from a very much more widespread source - water.
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Their experience of other drugs was also more widespread than young people in other countries.
most
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Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain, until recently it had not been studied in detail.
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Comments: This is perhaps the most widespread Cryptocoryne species found in Sri Lanka.
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The most widespread forms of modern print media are newspapers, magazines, books, and letters.
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Arsenic is one of the most widespread naturally occurring poisons.
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It was Northridge that caused the most widespread damage, seismologists said, because its epicenter was directly beneath the city.
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One of the most widespread expressions of the colleague contract is compadrazgo.
so
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Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive.
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The disaster was so widespread that even Bridgeport and the rest of the Eleventh Ward elected a Republican alderman.
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The type of fans the show attracted was so widespread .
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One mystery concerns how the fungus has been able to move from butternut to butternut, since these trees are so widespread .
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Because the eggs are so small and so widespread it is easy for them to be swallowed.
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But his basic belief was so widespread that gay men themselves sometimes used it as a come-on.
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The central issue is that racism is so widespread that it is institutionalized.
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Because the fungus is now so widespread , it is unlikely that it can be stopped with fungicides.
still
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In fact employer contribution holidays are still widespread .
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While there is still widespread confidence that an agreement will be reached, the timing is far from certain.
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They are better educated and more informed - though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor.
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Even after a thousand years or more, evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches.
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There is still widespread ignorance about Sickle Cell Anaemia and the chances of passing it on.
very
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This practice was very widespread in Kursk as opposed to the Smolensk guberniia.
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It is very widespread and can have real social consequences.
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It is not generally emphasised in textbooks, however, how very widespread these sediments are.
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So the early Carboniferous was again a time of very widespread carbonate deposition.
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There is only one living genus of horsetails - Equisetum - although its many species are very widespread .
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Dichograptus species are very widespread in the early Ordovician rocks.
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All our actions gained very widespread publicity.
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This idea was very widespread in the nineteenth century for a variety of reasons.
■ NOUN
acceptance
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There is, it is heartening to note, quite widespread acceptance that language is significant in all subject areas.
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The final deterrent to widespread acceptance of encryption is its difficulty to use.
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This may seem surprising in view of the widespread acceptance of monarchy.
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Marquez had expected an immediate and widespread acceptance , but only a few rallied to his standard.
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Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance .
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Nor has there been widespread acceptance of his proposed cures.
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Worship songs are also beginning to find widespread acceptance .
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As the code gained widespread acceptance , certain logical consequences followed in its wake.
adoption
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Another is that its method of valuation was too complex and this would detract from its widespread adoption .
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This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death, but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption .
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The widespread adoption of a rigorous and effective pre-trial review?
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The widespread adoption of floating exchange rates increased the uncertainty and risk associated with international trade and investment.
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This has contributed to the widespread adoption and acceptance of Swahili.
agreement
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The Tomlinson report's description of the inadequacy of primary and community health services in London commands widespread agreement .
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The survey also found widespread agreement that felons and known drug users should be barred from owning guns.
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Finds widespread agreement that the government should take the lead in securing the re-use of contaminated land.
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There is widespread agreement that there are many mentally disturbed people in prison who would be better off in hospital.
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Already there was widespread agreement that clozapine had exceptional properties, with some spectacular remissions even in long-term patients.
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Although a rational approach may produce the best policy, there may not be widespread agreement on it.
belief
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The findings led to a widespread belief that psychological tests were situation specific and therefore limited in their usefulness for personnel selection.
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It provides a startling point for a discussion of the widespread belief that Richard Nixon was a brilliant maker of foreign policy.
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Professor Budd's remarks echo a widespread belief in the City that the Government needs to develop a credible monetary strategy.
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Protestant endeavours to extinguish popular superstitions and the widespread belief in magical remedies also proved largely futile.
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But, despite a widespread belief , this is not due to job insecurity.
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Especially in the United States, a widespread belief exists that people should actively seek ways of developing themselves.
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There is a widespread belief that the Age of Enlightenment has run its course.
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It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking.
concern
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Mr. King Is my right hon. Friend aware of the widespread concern at the large number of people seeking political asylum?
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Feinstein shares the widespread concern about identity theft and the creation of profiles or dossiers on individuals without their knowledge.
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I think it is a pretty widespread concern .
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The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child, however.
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There is widespread concern about the effects of the financial futures market on the equity market.
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At the time, the far right's surprise breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt caused widespread concern .
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There was widespread concern about the effect of the movies and over 30 states began to draft censorship bills.
condemnation
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But the sentence imposed ast Northamptyon Crown Court brought widespread condemnation .
corruption
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The general demoralization of Soviet society during the Brezhnev period affected the militia also and by the 1980s widespread corruption was reported.
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This money helped to fuel the widespread corruption that has been so glaring under the Yeltsin regime.
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There has been widespread corruption in the ivory trade.
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They were determined to stop the widespread corruption that had discredited government contracting.
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He said those efforts were plagued by widespread corruption and official indifference.
criticism
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In response to widespread criticism , Kadhafi strongly attacked corruption and favouritism in the government administration.
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Her allegations have touched off widespread criticism of Albert Hale in the Navajo Nation.
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This follows widespread criticism of the Bush Administration's scepticism at international conferences so far.
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Nevertheless, there was widespread criticism that the relief operation was slow and badly organized.
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Despite widespread criticism , the trend is on the increase in the Five Nations Championship.
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There was widespread criticism of the handling of the disaster.
damage
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The storm caused widespread damage and heavy flooding, disrupting services and communications.
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It was Northridge that caused the most widespread damage , seismologists said, because its epicenter was directly beneath the city.
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An assessment is under way of some of the most important coastal sites and already widespread damage has been found.
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The last few years have seen widespread damage to homes through storms, floods, extreme cold and subsidence caused by drought.
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A few unsprayed crops might survive providing most are sprayed but if none was sprayed, widespread damage would ensure in some years.
discontent
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But in spite of a pretty widespread discontent with education as it is, there is no clear view of what it should be.
dissatisfaction
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There was widespread dissatisfaction too for the degenerate lifestyle into which many of the clergy had fallen.
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It is the withdrawal of this assurance that contributes to the widespread dissatisfaction with home life in a tower block.
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Perhaps it is time the autonomous practitioners themselves sought a solution to a widespread dissatisfaction with their service.
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Spoiled ballots accounted for 32 %, indicating the widespread dissatisfaction at the electoral process.
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Gallup has found widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of society.
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And so, by 1977, there was pretty widespread dissatisfaction with education in all its forms.
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There was, in particular, deep and widespread dissatisfaction with the mathematical attainments of children at school.
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Initiatives undertaken in response to the widespread dissatisfaction with residential care have led to a general improvement in the quality of services.
famine
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It could mean permanent coastal flooding in some countries and widespread famine in others.
fear
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There are also widespread fears that the convicted men will serve only a few months of their sentences.
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There had been widespread fears of police violence, and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday.
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He said there were widespread fears that the Home Secretary wanted to replace locally-elected police authorities with government-appointed boards.
feeling
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Why does he not take note of that widespread feeling ?
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Following this calamity, there was a widespread feeling of discontent in the country.
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There was, however, a widespread feeling that very large armies were undesirable because they were difficult to supply and manoeuvre.
interest
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We welcome the widespread interest that has been shown by management.employee teams in developing bids for their companies.
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The collection of earrings, brooches and necklaces have attracted widespread interest from buyers at the International Spring Fair.
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Once again, however, it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue.
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The Cove in Gilmerton has aroused widespread interest from local historians.
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Moreover, both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization.
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This, and other attention-getting highlights, was to spark off widespread interest .
opposition
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Again, despite widespread opposition from many sections of the community, the clause became part of the final legislation.
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The attempt to legitimise Renville met widespread opposition .
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Neither in the industrial nor the electoral sphere, then, was there any measurable and widespread opposition to the National government.
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The farmer who lives at nearby Eastbach Farm has applied for permission to dump rubbish despite widespread opposition from the village.
practice
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At that time there was a widespread practice of holding the child over a newspaper for passing a motion.
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We also campaigned against the widespread practice of pregnancy tests by employers and the dismissal of pregnant women.
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The case also highlights the widespread practice of arbitrary detention that affects about 2 million people each year.
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Pied-fly numbers have increased dramatically since nest box provision has become widespread practice in the sessile oak woods they prefer.
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One of the most flagrant abuses in this regard is the widespread practice of multiple recovery surgery ....
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Another widespread practice consists in striking the hands against other parts of the body, used directly as resonators.
problem
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Groping on rush-hour trains is also a widespread problem .
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Iron deficiency anemia, as evidenced by a high prevalence of low hemoglobin levels, was a widespread problem .
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Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.
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Specialty retailers' weakness reflected the widespread problems throughout the retail sector.
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Somehow this extremely widespread problem needed to be swept away.
publicity
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Perhaps we should consider giving widespread publicity to the Audit Commission's account of the Government's failings.
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He returned a week later, after widespread publicity , with more than twenty thousand marchers, who demonstrated peaceably.
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In the 1980s a series of scandals received widespread publicity .
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Several contracts were awarded to private contractors especially in cleansing - and the whole issue attracted widespread publicity .
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All our actions gained very widespread publicity .
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Split-brain studies have science fiction overtones which have led to their widespread publicity in more recent times.
support
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A representative of the licencing board said that there's widespread support in Glasgow for the proposal.
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In the north, the party can count on fairly widespread support .
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The coterie of would-be revolutionaries commanded no widespread support .
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The movement attracted widespread support from peace campaigners.
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In this case there was widespread support and sympathy from the overtaxed gentry and clergy.
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It has widespread support in the House as far as it goes, but missing is legislation to protect against victimisation.
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But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts.
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Does he accept that there is widespread support from industry and the community generally for the Government's roads programme?
use
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BIndustry spokesmen argue that encouraging widespread use of unconnected phones would lead to mischief and abuse.
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I also found widespread use of goals, measurement, and feedback through scoreboards.
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Some are mainly of laboratory interest but others are clearly related to substances in more or less widespread use .
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Whether the technology ever will gain widespread use is uncertain.
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But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
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By now scientists were supposed to have discovered the formula for widespread use of solar technology here in the sunshine state.
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The most notable of these is the widespread use of popular theatre throughout the region.
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The main obstacle to the widespread use of abatement techniques is the significant and variable national costs which are incurred.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ethiopia was suffering widespread famine and disease.
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Government corruption is widespread in the country.
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Heavy rains have led to the most widespread flooding in a decade.
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Poverty in the region is widespread .
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Racism is much more widespread than people imagine.
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Thanks to the widespread availability of antibiotics diseases such as typhoid have largely been eradicated.
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the widespread use of computers
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The airlines' failures were in part caused by widespread concern about air safety.
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The practice of adding preservatives to basic foods is widespread .
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The report claimed that the problem of police brutality was widespread .
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There was now widespread public support for healthcare reform.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is very widespread and can have real social consequences.
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Some other local housing authorities such as Islington or Walsall are pursuing schemes of widespread decentralisation of housing management.
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Sometimes they echo time-honoured memories of widespread flooding in the region following the end of the last ice age.
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Stories of torture, murder and mass rape are widespread .
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The 1662 Act of Settlement turned this widespread local practice into the law of the land.
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The farmer who lives at nearby Eastbach Farm has applied for permission to dump rubbish despite widespread opposition from the village.
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The League says Swindon's football has earned them widespread admiration this season and Hoddle is a suitable and exciting choice.
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There is widespread support for completing that road at the earliest opportunity.