verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ensure fair play
▪ rules designed to ensure fair play
ensure privacy
▪ He had locked the door to ensure privacy.
ensure the survival of sth/sb
▪ Controlling land development would ensure the survival of many types of wildlife.
ensure/guarantee sb’s safety
▪ There were few laws or regulations to ensure the safety of workers.
ensure/secure/enforce compliance
▪ The staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
thus
▪ Myeloski had then insisted that they commandeer the seats on either side, thus ensuring them of privacy on the journey.
▪ Involving users directly in the needs assessment process, thus ensuring them a voice in assistance provided to them. 3.
▪ Bright 16-year-olds abandon all but two or three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread, and arts students maths-blind.
▪ The dynamics of capital accumulation thus ensure that property is distributed unequally, and that it remains so.
▪ The number of people seen is high - up to 100 patients a day - thus ensuring that unit costs are kept low.
▪ Consequently, it was decided that he should no longer be fed, thus ensuring that he would die.
■ NOUN
child
▪ Often these parents have made a big effort to ensure that their children took reading seriously.
▪ The doctors are doing everything they can to ensure the child will be born healthy.
▪ Advocate to ensure that a child is taking the courses necessary to succeed in work and college.
▪ Always ensure that your child is properly restrained in the car on every trip.
▪ The development of cognitive structures is ensured only if the child assimilates and accommodates stimuli in the environment.
▪ It should be the rule rather than the exception that we respect their authority and ensure our children follow the example.
effort
▪ Party leaders will be making efforts to ensure that Mr Lawson is not openly attacked at the conference.
▪ Often these parents have made a big effort to ensure that their children took reading seriously.
▪ During my term, I want to make every effort to ensure that they will be used.
▪ Teachers make great efforts to ensure that they do, even though the standards are demanding, particularly in maths.
▪ Such efforts need coordination to ensure that local effort and dedication is directed to best effect.
▪ It is important that every effort is made to ensure that the implementation of schemes is non-problematic and successful.
▪ Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available, but best can not take responsibility for either.
government
▪ We need a government that will help ensure that across the world we can look forward to peace and progress with stability.
▪ It was quite another to establish government policies ensuring blacks a chance at a life-style equivalent to whites.
▪ The arrangements give local governments the opportunity to ensure that cable systems operate in the best interests of their communities.
▪ The role of Government should be to ensure that such pensions met sensible regulation so that the public interest was protected.
▪ But governments must ensure that the former belongs to the human race.
▪ The Government must speedily ensure that the necessary public and private resources are made available to guarantee the investment takes place.
information
▪ The flow of information, visits to the company and discussions with management are strictly controlled to ensure equal dissemination of information.
▪ These new steps will also ensure that Verio customer information is not disclosed to unauthorized parties.
▪ Primary health care managers have the task of ensuring that their health information systems produce relevant information.
▪ Systems should by now have been analysed to ensure that the correct information is provided, and within the time scales allowed.
▪ Likewise arrangements should be made to ensure that supplementary information will be available where required.
▪ The aim was to ensure that the information used in the creation of the initial data base was both accurate and complete.
▪ Regulations under the Consumer Credit Act will of course ensure that accurate cost information is available for all forms of credit.
▪ We will ensure that comparative information about the health standards achieved by health authorities is available to the public.
measure
▪ In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
▪ By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates.
▪ Guidance on measures to ensure a safe environment, and issues related to health and safety at work.
▪ The paper suggests a variety of measures that will ensure that food is kept, distributed and sold in hygienic conditions.
▪ Such measures will ensure that the child is carried successfully and born in a healthy condition.
▪ The designation compels the state authorities to take measures to ensure the fish's survival.
▪ This 720-page document covered in some detail the measures needed to ensure sustainable development.
▪ One of the items available from the display was a simple measure to ensure that all spirits drunk at home are singles.
need
▪ The most often quoted obligations deal with the nature of the service and the need to ensure that content is impartial.
▪ Community-the need to ensure social sustainability.
▪ The overriding need is to ensure these park trees are not merely protected but replanted.
▪ He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening.
▪ All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment.
▪ Schools need to ensure that all pupils, irrespective of their backgrounds, have an equal opportunity to achieve the attainment targets.
▪ Training department need to ensure the competency of our company representatives before the Bond goes on sale.
▪ Ipswich's 3-2 win over Newcastle means John Lyall's side need six points to ensure promotion.
policy
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▪ The Profitboss initiates policies and practices that ensure all employees are consistently treated.
▪ It was quite another to establish government policies ensuring blacks a chance at a life-style equivalent to whites.
▪ Idleness: to be overcome by government policies that ensure meaningful work for all individuals.
▪ Furthermore, these policies must aim at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy these aspects of health.
▪ We believe we have the policies in place to ensure we maintain that progress in the future.
responsibility
▪ His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it.
▪ We would thus have primary responsibility to ensure that the advertisement is factually accurate.
▪ It is our responsibility to ensure defendants are fairly prosecuted, and that has also happened.
▪ CI5 took the responsibility for ensuring that no harm came to, or from, those ill-favoured dignitaries.
▪ States have the responsibility for ensuring teacher competence, and state statutes generally set out standards for teacher certification.
▪ The food industry generally has a clear responsibility to ensure that food supplied to its customers is safe.
▪ The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
safety
▪ Only by ensuring that safety and reliability were maintained could public confidence be restored.
▪ Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman, a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic safety of every individual.
▪ A pulley block was used to ensure the safety of this manoeuvre.
▪ Instead, he stays with Baby-O to ensure his safety.
▪ Local authorities have a legal duty to ensure safety of pupils on trips.
▪ There were few laws or regulations to ensure worker safety.
▪ Every employee should note that it is his responsibility to ensure that Health and Safety regulations are complied with.
▪ It is surely incumbent on us to do everything possible to ensure that safety is paramount.
standard
▪ Labour's independent Food Standards Agency will ensure high food quality standards.
▪ We will back the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council and remain vigilant about ensuring high standards in satellite broadcasts from abroad.
▪ Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
▪ All three flavourings have been produced to ensure they meet the standards for which Schwartz is famous.
▪ The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
▪ The Inspection department's role is to ensure that quality standards are properly maintained, without incurring disproportionate costs.
▪ The Railway Inspectorate will be given full powers to ensure the highest standards of safety.
▪ And it has created a new job, that of quality assurance manager, to ensure that standards are maintained.
success
▪ For the first time, schools must ensure the educational success of all students.
▪ You also must give them resources and reinforcement just in time to ensure their success.
▪ A sunny position and well-drained soil ensure success.
▪ It helps ensure success for novice users.
▪ Having a positive attitude about your progress will ensure you have continued success.
▪ Where the team process excels is in ensuring the candidates' success through the entire work group entry process.
▪ The third speaker explained the role of NGOs and market intermediaries in ensuring project success.
▪ Environmental priorities must be built into all economic decision-making, ensuring that economic success goes hand in hand with environmental responsibility.
survival
▪ These responses ensure the maintenance and survival of an individual and its reproduction.
▪ Subsequently, a government panel decided Uncle Sam should endeavor to ensure survival of at least three thousand pairs.
▪ So breeding in captivity is vital to ensure the species survival.
▪ The power of these fantasies, and not their accuracy, is what ensures their survival.
▪ The publication has received financial support from the Czech Ministry of Culture but is still in need of funding to ensure its survival.
▪ Read in studio A village school is resorting to big business techniques to ensure its survival.
▪ In both cases, opting out was perceived as a means of ensuring the survival of grammar school status.
▪ Although relatively few eggs are produced, the male's care ensures a good survival rate.
system
▪ Right-On movements such as the feminists and the peace campaigners evolved complicated systems to ensure this happened.
▪ The system was designed to ensure a hermetic seal of security, but at the sacrifice of speed and understanding.
▪ What we want is a system that ensures the ability of citizens to participate in the selection of their representatives.
▪ This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party, whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament.
▪ A system exists to ensure that at any time, day or night, the consultant's wishes are followed.
▪ Legal requirements need to be considered during the implementation of electronic documentation systems to ensure legal security. 10.2.
▪ The committee system generally ensures detailed coverage of council business.
way
▪ The safest way to ensure that you are getting the best practical business advice for your money is to buy from Croner.
▪ In that way he ensures a total identity with profit.
▪ Making a will is the only way to ensure your wishes are respected.
▪ The only way to ensure randomness is to make sample selections independent of human judgement.
▪ Near vision tasks need to be presented in a way that ensures that materials can be easily accessible to handle.
▪ In a way, you are ensuring your role in the future, no matter how far off that future may be.
▪ One way to ensure the right mix is quite straight forward.
■ VERB
design
▪ This is designed to ensure that the policing of the demonstration can be properly planned.
▪ The system was designed to ensure a hermetic seal of security, but at the sacrifice of speed and understanding.
▪ They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries.
▪ Shaw v. Hunt: Oddly shaped congressional districts are unconstitutional if they were designed in order to ensure black voting majorities.
▪ There is a desperate need to provide these precious specimens with surroundings that are better designed to ensure their preservation.
▪ The suggestions are not designed to ensure that work-inhibited students quickly become proficient in doing schoolwork.
▪ We make no apology for introducing regulations designed to ensure a fair, healthy and secure society.
▪ The tests are designed to ensure that the waste does not cause significant damage to marine wildlife or human health.
help
▪ We will also use our presidency to help ensure that poorer countries are not disadvantaged as a result of the Single Market.
▪ But in the second trial, Weisberg denied the defense that argument and thus helped to ensure the guilty verdicts.
▪ The stock market's recent steady performance in the run up to the water issue has helped ensure the success of the flotation.
▪ So the coppicing at Westonbirt arboretum may help to ensure the survival of more than just the trees.
▪ This would help ensure the poorer countries did not repeat the environmental mistakes of the northern hemisphere as they pursued economic development.
▪ The information will help the campaign to ensure the survival of one of our most attractive wild animals.
▪ Regular feeding with a general fertiliser will help to ensure that the plants are always supplied with adequate food materials.
▪ Amongst other things, this ought to help to ensure that co-operative R ventures are favoured relative to co-operative D ventures.
require
▪ Discussion: What monitoring arrangements are required to ensure efficiency?
▪ So long as politics requires donations, donations ensure access.
▪ Neither is viable without the other and both require careful management to ensure that their viability is perpetuated.
▪ This requires ensuring that there is a basic valuation and considering its contents.
▪ There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content.
▪ Careful timing will also he required to ensure that the item is actually happening at the time it fits into the programme.
▪ Particular care is required to ensure the letter is requested from and signed by the correct parties.
▪ Extensive preparation of the gastrointestinal tract is required to ensure the bowel is free from faecal matter.
seek
▪ If an exparte injunction is to be sought the purchaser should ensure that the exclusivity clause is clear and precise.
▪ With that in mind, bidders sought partners to ensure they could provide the range of services desired by the county.
▪ We take each complaint seriously and seek to ensure that every one is properly examined.
▪ By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates.
▪ Dunwoody will be seeking to ensure that the same principle applies whatever day of the week it falls on.
▪ Section 240 seeks to ensure that recipients of the latter will not confuse them with statutory accounts.
▪ However, we must seek ways to ensure that, in the process, they do not destabilise our domestic agriculture.
▪ A member of the mineral trade association is being sought to ensure that there is also adequate linkage with the commercial sector.
take
▪ Steps are being taken to ensure that this and other factors do not impair the future.
▪ Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter.
▪ Great care must be taken to ensure that the line of palms do not look like some modern Forestry Commission plantation.
▪ In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
▪ None the less, great care is taken in organisations to ensure that the membership is identified and kept under review.
▪ Once the tenure of the Garden had been guaranteed, measures had to be taken to ensure its successful progress.
▪ The designation compels the state authorities to take measures to ensure the fish's survival.
try
▪ Now aid workers are trying to ensure the children's own health and welfare.
▪ And they have tried to ensure that the reading level continually advances.
▪ Mrs McNee tries to ensure that that coincides with the children's return from school.
▪ He was wrangling for the best deal he could get and trying to ensure it would not be his last.
▪ I always talk to the ferrets while the muzzles are put in place and try to ensure that they are never frightened.
▪ I still try to ensure that in general he makes it through a book within a week or ten days.
▪ We try to ensure that green fees listed are correct, but discrepancies may occur.
▪ The plaintiffs' attorneys say they will try to ensure that any funds coming in from Simpson are distributed fairly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the necessary steps had been taken to ensure their safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone close to Laura could not fail to notice her ability to ensure reality remained in the next room.
▪ But it had been enough to ensure him, at least pictorially, a vicarious immortality.
▪ Economic forces ensure that the same efficient allocation will happen in either case.
▪ Funds are urgently needed to ensure defence in the growing number of political trials and for needy families.
▪ However, tension arose between the need for decentralization in order to ensure more technical efficiency and political fears of too much independence.
▪ She lost Lisa her job, she slept with her fella, ensuring more misery to come.
▪ The mobility of officials ensured that a variety of view-points are available for all districts.
▪ The Problem Administrator will ensure that timely action is taken to resolve the problem.