I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a club official (=someone with a position of authority in the club)
▪ At this meeting we will elect new club officials.
a department official (=in a government department)
▪ a senior justice department official
a formal/official complaint
▪ The man has lodged a formal complaint against the police.
a formal/official invitation
▪ The president received a formal invitation to visit Nigeria.
a government official (=someone who works for a government in an official position)
▪ He had a meeting with French scientists and government officials.
a party official
▪ The incident has angered senior party officials.
a prison officer/official/warder/guard
▪ Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.
a senior official (=in an organization)
▪ a meeting of senior government officials
a state/official secret (=a government secret)
▪ He was accused of passing on state secrets to a foreign power.
an official announcement
▪ No official announcement is expected until next year.
an official apology
▪ The company has made an official apology and is offering compensation.
an official denial
▪ The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
an official engagement
▪ This is the Prime Minister's first official engagement since the elections.
an official estimate (=accepted by people in authority)
▪ According to official army estimates, more than 500 rebels had been killed.
an official inquiry
▪ The outcome of the official inquiry will be eagerly awaited.
an official inspection
▪ Preparations were made in advance of the official inspection.
an official language (=the language used for official business in a country)
▪ Canada has two official languages: English and French.
an official letter
▪ I received an official letter thanking me for my enquiry.
an official position
▪ He has no official position in the government.
an official position (=one that a government or organization says officially that it has)
▪ This was the French government’s official position.
an official reception
▪ After an official reception at the Embassy, they visited the White House.
an official statement
▪ The company is expected to make an official statement tomorrow.
an official website
▪ The International Olympic Committee’s official website has a lot of interesting information.
an official/administrative receiver
an official/formal report
▪ Black graduates still face discrimination from employers, according to an official report.
an official/state visit
▪ The president made an official visit to France this week.
formal/official approval
▪ Finance ministers gave their formal approval in July.
government/official propaganda
▪ Everything would soon get better, according to the official propaganda.
official confirmation
▪ There has still been no official confirmation of the report.
official duties
▪ The new President will take up his official duties next month.
official figures
▪ According to official figures, two million houses in England are inadequately heated.
official mascot
▪ the official mascot of the 2002 World Cup
official permission
▪ Mr Murphy was granted official permission to travel to North Korea.
official receiver
official records
▪ This has been the wettest winter since official records began.
official residence
▪ the ambassador’s official residence
official statistics
▪ Official statistics indicate that educational standards are improving.
official/written/formal notification
▪ We received official notification that Harry was missing.
the official line (=the opinion that a government states officially)
▪ Journalists are often too willing to accept the official line.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
▪ After an inspection, federal officials ordered additional security measures, including moving Guzman to a higher-security area.
▪ That said, there is an issue that should be explored by state and federal officials.
▪ For years, federal law enforcement officials were reluctant to penetrate the movement.
▪ The implicit message to the comptroller and to any other federal official is that this person is important to the president.
▪ But high land costs prompted federal officials to buy the Army another corral site and to build on F Street.
▪ The act provided that federal courts and officials could invoke army aid for its enforcement.
▪ Earlier this year, President Clinton ordered the issuance of safety locks to all federal law enforcement officials who carry handguns.
▪ From their perspective, the discretion used by federal officials produced reluctant justice at best.
high
▪ A high official would be likely to have one of jade, nephrite for the body and jadeite for the stopper.
▪ After four days of fasting, High Commission officials in Delhi relented and gave the go-ahead for the couple to be reunited.
▪ He supervised the pickers like a high official, carrying a long, medieval-looking pole with a sickle on the end.
▪ A wife of a high official?
▪ Their primary concern is with Washington, where the promotion board and higher officials are.
▪ At the bottom end of the scale this category could include high salaried officials.
▪ They were fed up, one high official was reported to have said.
local
▪ It allows a direct approach by the plaintiff or his agent to the competent local official in that state.
▪ Alameda County Supervisor Mary King hastily organized a briefing for local officials next week.
▪ But local union officials want to shut down all the existing committees and begin again from scratch.
▪ Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
▪ In the Phoenix case, and from the perspective of local officials, the federal program contains conflicting objectives.
▪ During the past week, members of Congress and local officials from across the country have urged Clinton to intervene.
▪ And, recently, the county has turned to what local officials call its third phase of development: corporate office parks.
▪ Yet the general staff of overseers is small, only about 40 employees, supplemented by local officials in 94 judicial districts.
military
▪ Until recently, lower military officials had taken the blame for the estimated 3,000 people who were murdered or went missing.
▪ The barracks will be the best enlisted housing in the military, Marine officials said.
▪ Other revelations serve as cautionary tales about the importance of subordinating military officials to civilian authority.
▪ Hartzog acknowledged that some military officials question his vision.
▪ But military officials denied any such changes are being contemplated.
▪ Some military officials have asserted that the effects of exposure to chemical agents would have been evident among those troops almost immediately.
▪ Senior military officials, including Gen.
▪ A number of lawmakers, independent experts, and former military officials have also expressed this view, including Indiana Sen.
public
▪ Mrs Chan, Hong Kong's most popular public official, consistently proved a staunch defender of its autonomy.
▪ The Public Health Service, your local public health officials and your family physician will be able to help you.
▪ The ethical basis for extending effective property rights in the public treasury to officials is overlooked in the Niskanen-type thesis.
▪ He holds more press conferences than any major public official in the country-at least two, and usually three, a week.
▪ Sir John had then stamped off, muttering curses about public officials who didn't seem to care.
▪ Only gradually did control of education pass largely to public officials.
▪ It was enough to have the declaration endorsed by a public official.
▪ The dilemma for local public officials is that once the game of economic development begins, it is difficult to avoid playing.
senior
▪ In fact, they were senior officials, few in number and recruited through complex competitive examinations.
▪ A senior county council official said later on Tuesday he was not optimistic that the decision would be reversed.
▪ For months, senior officials denied that Washington had any successor in mind.
top
▪ In law enforcement agencies particularly, top officials have cleaned out their files and left nothing for an incoming administration.
▪ A top prison official ordered the contract approved without competitive bids and went to work for VitaPro several months later.
▪ They are also paying top officials 10% over the normal pay scales.
▪ Food-throwing by a top administration official in the Roosevelt Room is not a big deal?
white
▪ His first lady, a power behind the scenes, insisted that a White House official be fired.
▪ Two White House officials were convicted of serious charges and a third got off on a technicality.
▪ Among the options now under consideration, White House officials said, were a restoration of those earlier restrictions.
▪ Many white officials tend to be terse on the subject.
▪ His job is safe if he wants to stay, White House officials said.
▪ Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.
■ NOUN
administration
▪ But administration officials and other sources now concede that Alispahic remains an influential figure with close ties to Izetbegovic.
▪ Therefore, a cap under current circumstances would not hurt outlays for the poor, according to administration officials.
▪ The contradictions in the Clinton policy were trenchantly described in a recent article by Robert Kagan, a former Reagan administration official.
city
▪ However, city officials make it clear that it will remain the only children's home in Ceuta.
▪ Center and city officials play down the troubles, saying they are typical of any start-up operation.
▪ That, city officials and property owners say, is happening now.
▪ He will be accompanied by city officials, including the airport and port directors, business leaders and staff.
▪ The bottom line for city officials: Be kind to your current employers.
▪ Her granddaughter says the old woman was afraid to answer the door, terrified that once again city officials would come knocking.
▪ Some ministers and city officials are outraged, saying the newspaper has crossed the line from satire to tastelessness.
▪ Mayor Richard Riordan and other city officials were on hand for the groundbreaking.
county
▪ The new bills will save an average household £50 a year, but today's decision has shocked county officials.
▪ She said she is more concerned by the trouble county officials have had in negotiations with federal agencies.
▪ If county officials confirm that 28, 084 are those of registered voters, a referendum will be held around May 1.
▪ Two years ago, Gallatin County officials tried to fashion a set of brakes.
▪ In choosing Allied, county officials said the company offered more money up front at closing than the other bidders.
▪ It was asked to provide the most inclusive list and leave it to the county officials to double-check the names.
▪ City and county officials said Thursday that they were not concerned about the foreclosure and the deal probably would go through.
court
▪ These reforms were partially aimed at reducing the influence of court officials and other persons who served as unofficial lawyers.
▪ The seventh of nine children, Wiedman told court officials he, too, was molested as a child.
▪ They include parchment and paper rolls prepared by receivers, manorial court officials and other functionaries.
▪ His wife rang court officials to say he was ill with food poisoning.
▪ Certainly the various court officials who came and went didn't seem interested.
▪ Neither were judicial and court officials free from the taint of corruption.
▪ In other words, the police, magistrates, judges, and other court officials have too much discretion.
department
▪ State Department officials say the presence of Fusaria is not surprising.
▪ Health and Environmental Control Department officials notified about 500 residents of the inspections at a meeting Tuesday.
▪ In Washington, a State Department official speaking on background was far more frank.
▪ The planning department officials assigned to work on the project gave up their summer vacations to bring it in on time.
▪ Senior State Department officials say reduced funding also directly affects policy.
▪ The immediate responses to complaints made by Justice Department officials in the new administration seemed cold-blooded and callous.
enforcement
▪ Law enforcement officials said Wednesday that an inspection of the brakes turned up no defects.
▪ A federal law enforcement official said prosecutions seldom are initiated unless the eavesdropper deliberately has used a monitored conversation for other purposes.
▪ For years, federal law enforcement officials were reluctant to penetrate the movement.
▪ Some of the chiefs also urged improved information sharing between schools and law enforcement officials.
▪ Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
▪ It was the first such public statement by any high-ranking law-#enforcement official directly involved in the Ray case.
government
▪ The move follows criticism by leading local government officials and academics.
▪ They were welcomed by schoolchildren bearing flowers, by government officials, wolf people, reporters and ordinary citizens cheering their appearance.
▪ Despite assurances from government officials that an investigation is in progress, his whereabouts remain unknown.
▪ The surviving stations either are owned by prominent government officials or have close links to the government.
▪ Sources in Xiamen said 159 government officials, including top bankers, are being held in the Jinyan Hotel for interrogation.
▪ Both trips included government officials, as well as business executives seeking contracts abroad.
health
▪ But health officials in the Darlington and the Northallerton health authorities said their budgets had allowed for the pay rises.
▪ As a result of the study, health officials are calling on manufacturers and the government to curtail exposures to children.
▪ Read in studio Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic.
▪ The incubation period of Hepatitis A is generally a month but can range from 15 to 50 days, health officials said.
▪ Now health officials are working out how to cut the waste of the daily medical marathon.
▪ New York City health officials were able analyze very recent data because the city collects birth and death records for its residents.
▪ Department of Health officials have agreed to meet the conciliation service, Acas.
▪ That system has deteriorated so much that state health officials have stepped in to demand that the city act immediately.
house
▪ White House officials denied the president was worried that his foreign policy initiatives might turn sour before Nov. 5.
▪ Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.
ministry
▪ Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route.
▪ Mr Raduyev announced, according to an Interior Ministry official in Moscow.
▪ If found guilty, the offending brokerages could be shuttered and officials imprisoned, ministry officials said.
▪ A quick visit by Ministry officials soon confirmed his fears.
▪ Most ministry officials are confident that their bureaucracy will survive in its current form.
▪ That opinion was based on an interview Viza had with a foreign ministry official.
▪ He summoned Interior Ministry officials to the royal palace on Jan. 25 to demand a full investigation into the affair.
party
▪ The Democratic Party officials and machinery mobilized against him after his surprise primary victory and he lost overwhelmingly in the general election.
▪ Municipal mayors, heads of nonprofit social service agencies, government bureaucrats, contractors and political party officials have all faced charges.
▪ Like these two, many of the participants in the Red Cross exchanges actually were intelligence or party officials.
▪ The revised law laid down strict rules on the issuing of permits for demonstrations and forbade government and party officials from participating.
▪ But party officials said only Sen.
▪ Nor were plebeian members mere foot-soldiers at the disposal of intelligenty party officials.
▪ Welfare Party officials say they hope to join forces with the conservative Motherland Party.
school
▪ Most school officials came to regard me, and indirectly the hospital, rather positively.
▪ Whether other teachers or school officials will be considered public officials varies from state to state.
▪ Math scores were even lower. School officials hope to put the stricter promotion standards into place this academic year.
▪ The Supreme Court, in its most recent decision, barred school officials from arranging prayers at graduation ceremonies.
▪ New York school officials said the cost of complying with the decision in one year alone was $ 6 million.
▪ Thus school officials are protected for good-faith actions taken to fulfill their official duties.
▪ Another mere coincidence, say school officials, adding that Tarkanian was adamant about having such a watchdog on staff.
▪ For the order to be reasonable, school officials must have the legal authority to issue it.
state
▪ The activity of state officials constitutes what the elite has chosen as its solution.
▪ Some 40 people have since been arrested in connection with the case, and they include police and lower-level state officials.
▪ The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval.
▪ It is state officials who are responsible for finding victims and easing their pain with financial help.
▪ In a ceremony today, state officials will proclaim Nevada 375 the Extraterrestrial Highway.
▪ They currently can seek help from the secretary of the Interior when state officials balk.
▪ Army and state officials decided that it would be safe to build homes nearby, and gave the developer the go-ahead.
■ VERB
accord
▪ Both sites can hold up to 10, 000 demonstrators, according to city officials.
▪ Caltrain carries more bicyclists than any other commuter rail system in the United States, according to Caltrain officials.
▪ King gave away at least $ 15, 000 in tickets, according to one Valley official with amateur boxing.
▪ Instead, Merrill has played a major role in urging more and stronger attack ads, according to campaign officials.
▪ The sticking points, according to the official, concern existing references to Zionism and the issue of reparation for slavery.
▪ How the money will be divided among cities and states has not been determined, according to an administration official.
▪ Although the museum has been helpful in soliciting donations, according to center officials, it has been a constant money loser.
elect
▪ An estimated 1,400,000 people were eligible to vote to elect officials who in the past had been appointed by the President.
▪ One more small step away from control by elected officials and toward a government run by the bureaucracy.
▪ Thanks to bitter memories of dictatorship, the constitution forbids a second consecutive term for any elected official.
▪ In a government with term limits for elected officials, the power of the staffs that stay on will only expand.
▪ But the question lingers: Just what visions do our current and former elected officials hold for this state and its people?
▪ The three-hour meeting was attended by 120 representatives of railroads, unions, shippers and elected officials.
▪ They are elected or appointed officials who strive to meet the needs of their constituents through effective and efficient government.
▪ I would love to see the building in adaptive reuse, both personally and as an elected official.
meet
▪ Now fed-up councillors are planning to meet officials from the Re-Roof Housing Association.
▪ It will be discussed publicly at a meeting Tuesday, officials said.
▪ At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.
▪ J., said after meeting with Air Force officials Thursday.
▪ Prueher reported that Cohen made his views known in a meeting with Pentagon officials last week.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a union official
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But instead of levying fines, prosecuting plant officials or revoking their licenses, the agency only wrote threatening letters to trustees.
▪ By last week, government and state officials had doubled their estimates of contaminated sites to about 100.
▪ City officials were hoping the name change would help curb the prostitution which festered in the area during the 1970s.
▪ Committee members have expressed concerns about possible contacts between donors and officials of the National Security Council.
▪ Health officials in Houston said Thursday that California strawberries are almost certainly the source of the illnesses.
▪ In any case, the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official.
▪ One of the strengths of organisations is the expertise that officials have accumulated over time.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approval
▪ There is, however, plenty of evidence to suggest that Manet and many other artists craved official approval.
▪ As many additional columns should be provided as may be demanded in accordance with the number of official approvals required.
▪ Broadly speaking, it's best to ask your local authority about whether any official approval is needed before going ahead.
▪ The mainland media were warned not to report the case without official approval.
▪ The group reckons that official approval will follow around two years later.
▪ Rewards may be given in terms of pay, promotion, status, official approval etc.
capacity
▪ Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity.
▪ Dole spent Wednesday in Washington acting in his official capacity as Senate majority leader.
▪ In our official capacities that is all that we need do.
▪ No one who was not in some official capacity was to approach within fifty yards.
▪ We allow officials acting in their official capacity no such area at all.
▪ He was staying on Sula Sgeir with the guga hunters to make observations in his official capacity.
▪ But since, technically, she'd never even been employed in any official capacity, she could hardly have cared less.
complaint
▪ Several major law firms have recently enacted codes of conduct to delineate appropriate behavior and to ward off official complaints.
▪ No wonder people sometimes start right off with an official complaint or even a writ.
▪ I never even had to file an official complaint.
▪ They've lodged an official complaint against the police, who they say were treating the case as suicide.
▪ She's made an official complaint - just one of a record number received by Thames Valley Police this year.
▪ The couple have lodged an official complaint against Gloucestershire police.
▪ Ian Arrol's parents say the police shouldn't have chased him and have lodge an official complaint.
corruption
▪ The latitude for administrative discretion in individual cases surely encouraged rather than checked official corruption.
▪ Integrity provides protection against partiality or deceit or other forms of official corruption, for example.
▪ This bitter complaint and reference to lavish party practices and official corruption was to grow louder over the year.
denial
▪ Bombay: An official denial of moves to end price controls on steel triggered nervous long liquidation across the board.
▪ Despite official denials, William Waldegrave, the health secretary, is unpopular in Downing Street.
▪ The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.
document
▪ The official document was still laid out on the centre of the table alongside the first few lines of his handwritten duplicate.
▪ They were married in a room smelling of varnish and floor wax, and official documents growing musty in the filing cabinets.
▪ Arrests were also reported of members of a major network of financial corruption involving the falsification of official documents.
▪ Even the feel of an official document did not comfort.
▪ One covered the verification of official documents, one dealt with compensation for lost mail and one established mechanisms for future contacts.
▪ Clearly, too, the resistance and sabotage mentioned in official documents were the exception, not the rule.
▪ It was resolved to deposit the Damascus Declaration with the Arab League as an official document.
▪ He sat once again at his desk and began to consider how to get the official document translated without arousing further suspicion.
duty
▪ My first official duty was to help launch the Water 4 Life campaign.
▪ Most of his official duties had entailed preparations for the annual fish fry.
▪ Moreover, 87% think that the Royals should be protected from photographers when not on official duty.
▪ The privileges are supposed to cover mail sent as part of official duties.
▪ What characterises bureaucracy is the rational and systematic way in which official duties are defined and distributed.
▪ Thus school officials are protected for good-faith actions taken to fulfill their official duties.
▪ It was Potrovsky's first day of official duty.
▪ Most senators complain that their perpetual race for money distracts them from official duties.
engagement
▪ The royal couple are rarely seen together outside official engagements.
figures
▪ The discrepancy between the official figures and those produced by the Unemployment Unit varies, but is usually between 500,000 and 700,000.
▪ The economy may be growing, official figures for April suggest.
▪ Thirdly, even within a particular denomination, the official figures may not be strictly comparable over time.
▪ Latest official figures show that shoppers are even turning to credit again, to buy presents and stock up for Christmas.
▪ And between then and 1998, the last year for which official figures are available, the average was 462.
▪ According to official figures, the earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, left more than 20,000 homeless.
▪ Should such short-term unemployment be counted in the official figures?
government
▪ The official government figures need to be treated with some caution.
▪ Result: a black market in official government receipts with special stamps.
▪ The study was based on satellite photographs and official government data from 1987.
▪ The Khmer Rouge has been at war with the official Government since 1979.
▪ Solana, a physicist, was from 1982-88 Minister of Culture, and from 1985 also official government spokesperson.
▪ There should be an official Government refugee resettlement programme.
▪ Maybe in the national interest new company incorporation certificates should carry an official government warning!
inquiry
▪ Under a Labour government, this committee would become an official inquiry into electoral reform.
▪ The clean-up will continue for many months while the outcome of the official inquiry will be eagerly awaited.
▪ The government has launched an official inquiry into his alleged ill-treatment but no findings have been made public.
▪ As protest spread to provincial towns on May 25, Bongo ordered an official inquiry into Rendjambe's death.
▪ But it would look a little odd if we were to start an official inquiry into his origins and background now.
▪ And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete.
▪ Robert Maxwell was once declared unfit to be in charge of a major public company by an official inquiry.
language
▪ Short-sighted Sinhalese politicians decided, after independence in 1948, to make Sinhalese the only official language.
▪ The Constitution stresses the primacy of Hindi which, written in Devanagari script, is the nation's official language.
▪ They must speak only in one of four official languages.
▪ It should be an easy task to produce a comparative table listing official language policies.
line
▪ Is this Dunfermline's official line?
▪ The official line on all this often sounds remarkably complacent.
▪ Or proof of energies undimmed, as says the official line.
▪ The official line is that it remains Government policy never to comment on allegations of this nature.
▪ Journalists too easily accept the official line.
▪ He quickly established its critical reputation and the Institute became the focal point of specialist dissent from the official line.
▪ There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line.
▪ The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits.
opening
▪ Luncheon in the Court room for senior staff and guests followed the official opening ceremony.
▪ The official opening, on 15 May, 1903, was a splendid celebration of municipal enterprise.
▪ The official opening of the Akira Ikeda Gallery is scheduled for October.
▪ Ken will perform the official opening at noon on Wednesday, June 16.
▪ I wasn't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later.
▪ The official opening ceremony was performed by junior health minister Tom Sackville, during a visit to the hospital.
party
▪ There is no official party whipping.
▪ Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.
▪ Was it to be an official Party document or a pamphlet in the name of Quintin Hogg?
▪ The New Democratic party won 13 seats, which allows them to retain their official party standing.
▪ He also won the 12 seats needed to be recognised as an official party.
policy
▪ The clinical and research developments which have led to changes in the official policy will now be described.
▪ In between these two is what has been often called the macro orientation with its focus upon formal structures and official policies.
▪ It explores the inter-relationships between official policy and professional practice and their adaptation to each other.
▪ And some intellectuals have criticized official policy without suffering repercussions.
▪ Opposition to official policy was not confined to parliamentarians, but extended even to members of the Imperial family.
▪ Some A.S.M. members have told me that current official policy is wrong.
▪ There hardly seemed room for the Party's official policy.
▪ All these points were approved for printing some months before they became official policy.
position
▪ However, this time the Central Committee intervened to remove Piatakov from his official position.
▪ She denies any suggestion that she used her official position for personal gain.
▪ Politically motivated intellectuals tended not to fall silent on receiving official positions but to capitalize on their prominence.
▪ It will be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position.
▪ They are formal, official positions within the church organization.
▪ Organized group politics would have been incompatible with the official position of the party.
▪ There must be no suspicion that you are making use of your official position to further your private interests.
rate
▪ The official rate of unemployment reached 20 percent at the end of 1985.
▪ In 1974 the official rate for the dollar was 17 dinars; by early 1988 it was over 1,300 dinars.
▪ The use of the official rate hugely understates exports and imports, and distorts year-on-year comparisons.
▪ The profit was the difference between the higher black market and lower official rate.
▪ Entrepreneurs immediately became staunch patriots, and agreed to pay wages only at the official rate.
▪ From that date, all foreign exchange receipts were to be surrendered to authorized banks at the official rates of exchange.
▪ Guidebooks advise travellers to bring their fully duty-free quota, to offset the official rate of exchange.
receiver
▪ A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy.
▪ The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm, which folded last year, owed.
▪ And the official receiver has warned that more job losses could follow if threatened strikes at other plants go ahead.
▪ The official receiver was duly ordered to exploit the film.
▪ The official receiver has been called into the firm, which ceased trading last June.
recognition
▪ Voters supported proposition 22 by 61 % to 39 %, bestowing official recognition only on marriages between men and women.
▪ The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
▪ Blake returned to London a hero in the eyes of MI6 but the secret nature of his work precluded any official recognition.
▪ But for the forgotten victims - the wives - there is little official recognition, let alone pressure for reform.
▪ A further twenty-three laborious years were to elapse before official recognition of his services to Britain was given.
▪ In this way, for the first time, the Association obtains official recognition.
▪ He gained only minimal official recognition for his work; death prevented his election to the Royal Society.
▪ This afforded Ted Church's involvement official recognition.
record
▪ However official records seem to be almost non-existent.
▪ He studied languages, studied political theory, knew diseases intimately, had official records of his skill as a pilot.
▪ They combined this with interviewing, some taking of life-histories, and the use of various official records and other documents.
▪ Given the sorry state of official records, the only hope is living memories or undiscovered data.
▪ A report by the Demos thinktank estimates that 624,000 have disappeared from official records.
▪ The official records include heralds' visitations, grants of arms, and pedigrees.
▪ Read in studio A manager at the government communications headquarters faces disciplinary action after official records were destroyed.
▪ Once the next meeting has approved them, they form the official record of what happened and what was decided.
report
▪ The official reports are also reticent.
▪ In his research for Hollywood Haven, Schnauber used both official reports from government offices and original documents.
▪ In 1986 an official report recorded that over a thousand monuments were in urgent need of restoration or protection from pollution.
▪ An inter-nationality conflict developed on 15-16 July which led, according to official reports, to 11 deaths and 127 hospital cases.
▪ The official report into the accident says it was caused by pilot error.
▪ The official report echoes eyewitness accounts of fire on board shortly after takeoff from the Upper Heyford base in Oxfordshire.
▪ An official report of 1837 on the work of the foreign ministry was uncompromising on this point.
▪ The official report of a government investigation into the fire was not even published in full until 1988.
residence
▪ He was to spend most of the next fourteen years in official residences.
▪ The administration had now returned to its official residence, and the business of government was under way.
▪ There he had an official residence, but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery, with another in London Fields.
▪ In addition to a salary, most governors received perquisites such as transportation and an official residence.
▪ There was no need for an official residence for the Foreign Secretary.
▪ No departing presidential couple in history have ever left the official residence so bowed down with booty.
source
▪ Our information from official sources is that there is no immediate crisis.
▪ I can get most of the facts from official sources.
▪ This arose partly from the ever present pressure from official sources to complete the survey of the country.
▪ However, official sources in Dublin have advised fans planning to make the trip to submit travel-document applications immediately.
▪ The documents he provided for Strype helped counterbalance the reliance upon official sources in Strype's histories of Elizabethan archbishops.
▪ At least sixteen people were killed, according to official sources, and a curfew had to be introduced.
▪ Even official sources now accept that tall stacks tend to increase long-range transport of pollution.
statement
▪ An official statement the companies were hammering out also at press time was unlikely to clarify that point.
▪ By contrast, the Justus Township standoff has been notable for the lack of any official statements.
▪ Does he intend to take action on that official statement?
▪ Amtrak refused to confirm that date Wednesday, saying an official statement will be made today.
▪ Journalistic speculation and inference about official statements are not protected.
▪ Government documents and official statements concerning integration are replete with romantic and ill-defined language.
▪ The various official statements are unhelpful in practice.
▪ At least four official statements have been made by the United Kingdom.
statistics
▪ There are, he quoted from official statistics, 39 people chasing every job.
▪ So anything you can do to keep your home out of the official statistics really could be a matter of life or death.
▪ In yesterday's Independent, growing concern was reported about the integrity of official statistics.
▪ The use of official statistics, for example, has a long history in many of the social sciences.
▪ In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people.
▪ Yet it is instantly available, unlike official statistics that are always out of date.
▪ The research explores the determinants of strike activity using regression analyses of yearly time series data obtained from official statistics.
▪ The official statistics only include those accepted as homeless by local authority, and they are mainly households with children.
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▪ It was the end of his second, probably last, official visit.
▪ In fact it was surprising how good they were to us on most of our official visits.
▪ Yesterday he was on an official visit home.
▪ But her guard slipped briefly as she walked back to her limousine after an official visit in London.
▪ While his wife is on an official visit to Paris, he will spend his birthday at Highgrove, his Gloucestershire home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Islam is the official religion of Saudi Arabia.
▪ Most of the official records of the case were destroyed in a fire in 1965.
▪ Senator Blake is here on official business.
▪ The official explanation for the crash was pilot error.
▪ The official explanation for the man's death was suicide.
▪ the official opening of the new clinic
▪ The official procedure for obtaining a visa can turn into a bureaucratic nightmare.
▪ The First Lady will make an official visit to Haiti.
▪ The news is not yet official.
▪ The newspaper claims she spent over £50,000 on an official trip to Australia.
▪ Visa is an official sponsor of the Winter Olympics.
▪ What's the government's official policy on drugs education in schools?
▪ You have to get official permission for building in a conservation area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, as Air Force One took off for Washington, the response of his official hosts was somewhat colder.
▪ In addition to a salary, most governors received perquisites such as transportation and an official residence.
▪ Mr Baker adopted the Henry V model for his official morale-boosting speech from the conference platform.
▪ Nor have official bodies been able to ward off the most sinister threat.
▪ The truth is that not a single one of the official groups organising protests is planning violent action.
▪ The Umpires' Association had planned to table a motion giving an official vote of support for Lamb.
▪ Their applications came complete with curricula vitae and official Discharge Certificates and Conduct Assessments.
▪ Unlike Soviet official art, the shadowy presence of western popular art has not been systematically documented.