Cartel

a cartel (noun) - businesses grouped together to control prices and prevent competition

cartel agreements
cartel arrangements
barriers to trade include cartel agreements or arrangements
unsure whether the cartel would hold
very careful about enforcing posted price increases until they were sure that the cartel would hold
the members of the cartel systematically shared the maritime traffic between France and African countries

a drug cartel
the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel
attacks by the cartel
attacks by the cartel would cease if they agreed to negotiate

* As I understand it, a cartel is illegal because it's trying to impose a monopoly on the market.

* The diamond industry, as probably the most successful cartel of the twentieth century, is of considerable interest to economists.

* The Commission imposed fines on three chemicals companies on Dec. 19, 1990, for operating an illegal cartel in soda ash.

* They saw the cartel as a necessary evil to make the market less volatile and to restrain producers themselves from trying to corner the market in coffee futures.

* The Manila-based Orient Airlines Association is an informal but effective cartel that fixes fares and shares out business.

* Now I have a dire suspicion that the price of pink apples is being kept down artificially, that a cartel is operating.

* Consuming countries are also members of the International Coffee Organisation which policed the old cartel.

* Even those countries that formed the oil cartel in the mid-1970s were very careful about enforcing posted price increases until they were sure that the cartel would hold.

* Many producers are eager to cobble together another market-sharing cartel, but so far have failed to recruit Brazil, the Saudi Arabia of the world coffee-market with a share just over 20%.

* In particular the members of the cartel systematically shared the maritime traffic between France and African countries (including Benin, Congo, Togo, Senegal and Cameroon) on a monthly basis.

* Evaristo Porras Ardila, linked to the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel, was being held in the south-western city of Pasto after being deported from Ecuador on Sunday night.

* He promised attacks by his cartel would cease if the government agreed to negotiate.

* The government offensive against the drug cartel began in earnest on August 18 after the murders of a presidential candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, and the police chief in Medellin, where the leading drug traffickers are based.

* Oil production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel's target level of 22.9m for the first half, the International Energy Agency has said.

* The cartel could then clamp down on shipments of key materials, slowly bleeding the industries of the developed world.

* The barriers to trade take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements, national market organisations (such as co-operatives or trade associations) which discriminate against other EC nationals, and abusive monopolisation of markets.

* A joint venture which is not a disguised cartel will create significant new enterprise capability such as new production capacity, new technology, a new product or entry into a new market.

* A decision to let ICI's bioscience businesses demerge would mark a sharp break with a tradition that has formed part of the company's culture since it started: the tradition of the cartel.

* Thomas and Mungham show how the duty solicitor scheme was created and evolved, ostensibly as an act of public service but chiefly as a significant part of the struggle by outsiders to break into the cartel.

* Yet without positive discriminatory assistance the would-be criminal advocates were unable to break the cartel.

* In particular the deterrent effect is weak since the penalties for operating an illegal cartel are inadequate, and the Director General of Fair Trading has few powers to intervene and initiate investigations in situations where there is a suspicion that a secret cartel is in operation.

* But this was expensive for borrowers in terms of commissions (partly because bonds had to be lead managed by US firms, who formed a cartel), and suffered from listing, rating, registration and disclosure requirements.

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Track record

a track record (noun) - accomplishments demonstrating experience and expertise

a proven track record
a proven track record in the selling advertising
an impressive track record
an excellent track record
an established track record
no problem given their track record

once a track record of two or three years data exists selection may be possible
their track record in cutting infant deaths and improving life expectancy is falling behind

* The company's track record of research is continually being extended.

* Given his track record, it is inconceivable that anyone would ever hire him.

* She has a proven track record in the selling advertising.

* In a competitive proposal situation it is good practice to market our track record.

* Given its captive market, why does the company have such a poor track record in improving efficiency, productivity and profits?

* As a company we have a proven track record in schools catering and are committed to providing nutritious school meals.

* Our of creating precise packages in line with client needs, reinforced by our demonstrable quality policy and offshore track record, has been instrumental in our winning this highly coveted contract.

* She had a track record of less than wonderful relationships, unpaid bills, and three hundred or so cassettes all in the wrong cases.

* Its 20-year track record includes many high profile international projects for national governments throughout the world, as well as hundreds of companies in the private sector.

* In order to perform well, we must demonstrate to the Government a successful track record of increasing output from our plant and of reducing costs.

* Blatant attempts at suggesting status and covering up inadequacies are used all the time in the business world, to show connections and influence, establish a good track record or to create a mystique about something.

* Paul Verhoeven has a track record of movies so offensive they are perversely beguiling.

* She already has an impressive track record.

* The fledgling computer companies also have to contend with the generally poor track record of Britain's financial institutions in backing high-technology firms with the kind of cash needed to turn little firms into big ones.

* No problem, you might think, given our track record in that particular area.

* The NT is obviously interested in new talent but also in staying power, track record in sustainment, as indeed they should.

* He has a `;track record'; in uniform, CID, Fraud Squad, and Complaints and Discipline.

* Mr Shute has had an impressive track record with BM, which he was appointed to when it was controlled by Beazer and which has thrived while Beazer's fortunes wained until Beazer severed the connections earlier this year.

* Maurice has a proven track record with the firm he's coming from.

* They have, in any case, an appealing track record: their annual average return in the 1980s was (in dollars) 14%, compared to 9% for Belgian funds and 8% for those in Holland.

* His track record suggests a near genius at casting movies, and The Doors boasts cameos from people like Billy Idol, Mimi Rogers, Crispin Glover, and a multitude of Sixties celebrities.

* Roland was interviewed, out of courtesy he decided, but the job went to Fergus Wolff, whose track record was less consistent, who could be brilliant or bathetic, but never dull and right, who was loved by his teachers whom he exasperated and entranced, where Roland excited no emotion more passionate than solid approbation.

* The backing of Barclays, with our track record in helping franchisees, can help to give you credibility in negotiations with franchisors.

* The country has a poor track record in international collaboration.

* Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since, so frequently, they are proved to be inadequate or wrong.

* The Faculty of Business and Management has a strong commitment to economic regeneration and an established track record in contributing to the revival of the economic life of the province.

* The assessors will be guided by probabilities, the reputation and track record of the project director, and so forth.

* In this respect testing has a poor track record, and its lack of impact at national and school level forms the substance of the major criticisms of it as an evaluation procedure.

* The Government has a long track record of being mean with the money it wields.

* It is recognised that it is almost impossible to correctly identify the characteristics of fast growers at a start-up stage but once a track record of two or three years data exists selection may be possible.

* Oh yes, he had performed well in the Sigerson Cup competition and his Higher Education track record is second to none.

* This means the UK's track record in cutting infant deaths and improving life expectancy is falling behind other major countries where newer medicines are used more widely, said Dr John Griffin, director of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

* With an excellent track record in providing awards for all industries, City & Guilds has proved to be a very good partner, offering scope for candidates needing NVQs covered by a range of lead body standards.

* Attacks may be made on the offeror's financial resources, gearing, capital structure, dividend policy, interest burden, profit performance, past history and takeover track record.

* He said that after 18 years of work, the centre had a demonstrated track record in community care.

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Fluctuations

fluctuations (noun) - up and down movements, irregular changes (fluctuations in the price of oil, for example)

large fluctuations
minor fluctuations

options to protect against loss through fluctuations in rates of exchange

* Provision of forward exchange cover or currency options to protect against loss through fluctuation in rates of exchange.

* The currencies of eight other EC countries were in a narrow band with a maximum fluctuation of 2.25 per cent up or down.

* The random fluctuations cancel each other out.

* Then came one of those financial fluctuations.

* Although workers tended to stay with one firm most of the time, fluctuations in trade meant that it was by no means unknown to move about on a short-term basis.

* Agribusiness that operates in sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations has been prone to this sort of employment.

* Their problem was to control the wild fluctuations that the wheat price was prone to.

* Firstthere is a long-term trend caused by fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field strength.

* Farmer incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices.

* During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age warm to cold to warm repeated several times, the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate, sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man.

* The statistics show considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages, but are markedly higher in the early fifteenth century than they had been in the late fourteenth.

* While the ability of organised skilled workers to restrict entry to their trade and to develop defensive strategies probably means their wages rose more sharply when the economy turned up, and fell less quickly on the downturns, this would have the effect of flattening fluctuations rather than of misdirecting trends.

* Such fluctuations in the unemployment rate as were observed in practice came to be interpreted as fluctuations in the natural rate itself, not as deviations, temporary or otherwise, from the natural rate.

* Monetary policy was relegated to the fairly minor role of preventing excessive fluctuations in interest rates.

* Although the change, introduced last year, to gross accounting has succeeded in highlighting the volume of activity which was previously reported in modest, net contribution figures, it should be appreciated that significant fluctuations will occur on the completion of major projects.

* The scale of price rises is quite out of line with that which could plausibly be required to balance real supply and demand; and quite out of line with previous responses to fluctuations in industrial production.

* During the progress of Parkinson's disease the patient may experience fluctuations between periods of deterioration and stability.

* The sensitivity of the graphite industry to international demand may be illustrated by the sharp fluctuations in the value of graphite exports as a proportion of the value of rice imports: in 1890 this proportion was eighteen per cent, by 1895 it had fallen to seven per cent, but in the boom year of 1899 it soared to sixty per cent.

* With other semi-regular stars, the periods are so ill-defined as to be barely recognizable, and sometimes the fluctuations become random.

* The Report's recommendations were approved in principle by the European Community (EC) in 1971 and, as a prelude to the first stage, central banks were invited to restrict fluctuations in their currencies around the existing par values.

* It is recognized, also, that investment may be influenced by interest rates, with fluctuations in the latter having a direct effect on the cost of borrowed funds and therefore on the profitability of potential investments.

* However, investment is required to augment productive capacity, and policies to eliminate excessive fluctuations in aggregate demand may provide the best environment for high investment expenditures.

* Such a contract may, to some extent, even out (or" smooth") the worst of the cyclical fluctuations experienced by the trade.

* The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe cannot have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles.

* The court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer's money from fluctuations in interest rates, and can't be carried out for trading purposes.

* In fact, gas, of course, is such a valuable fuel --; it can be piped to people, in other words it's easy to distribute --; it can be stored, by compressing it in tanks --; in fact the national storage of gas at the moment which helps you to meet fluctuations in demand is the thousands of miles distribution pipeline, some six feet in diameter at sixty atmospheres in pressure, full of gas, and the volume of gas stored there is quite adequate to meet the fluctuations in demand.

* To hold the pound within its margins the system requires a member country to intervene in the markets when its currency diverges 75 per cent of the way to its permitted fluctuation margins, either side of the central rate.

* Banks were closed on Jan. 29-30, but on Jan. 30 Cavallo ordered the financial markets to be reopened, with the austral to be restricted within a fixed fluctuation band of between 8,000 and 10,000 to the dollar, backed up by Central Bank reserves.

* US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady denied reports that Treasury officials had sought an accord on currency target zones in an effort to bring international pressure to bear on fluctuation ranges for the German mark.

* Indeed, because of the fluctuation in oil prices under the effects of market forces, some staff redundancies have affected geologists and geophysicists, industrially and in government employment.

* It awaited the great mobilisation of savings that railway construction elicited and the parallel arrival of limited liability, but, as Professor Wilson has pointed out," by advertising the opportunities of the stock market" the dealers of" Change Alley helped in the long run to widen the circle of investors as well as of speculators, by creating habits of investing rather than of hoarding and possibly levelled out extremes of fluctuation by increasing competitive bidding for stock.

* Were such a climatic fluctuation to take place now, it could have disastrous consequences for agriculture and economies across the world.

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Undercut

undercut (verb) - prevent a rival from being effective (by offering a lower price, for example), undermine a rival

undercut plans
undercut air fares
undercut competitors

the new market leaders, in their turn, will eventually be undercut and have to move on

* He says he undercut your prices and forced you out.

* With many firms, the firm that expands output will always be able to reduce costs and undercut its rivals.

* Images of passive men undercut then dominant images of aggressive he-man masculinity.

* You undercut too much.

* They undercut us on the deal!

* We have greater transportation costs but they were still able to undercut us with their low prices.

* But the company's still able to undercut the competitor by a sizeable margin.

* It was the climax of a long, and indeed largely popular, campaign by the government to undercut the union monopoly in the labour market.

* Popular support for the candidate would be undercut by the latest developments.

* If you know that employers are using immigrants as cheap labour, and that they're being used to undercut your rates of pay, you're going to be against that.

* Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders. Even the new industrial nations, the new market leaders, in their turn, will eventually be undercut and have to move on, but to what?

* The end of the agreement would lead to booksellers being undercut by large suppliers, and that many stockholding booksellers, notably the specialists, would be driven out of business.

* The country bore the massive burden of state subsidies and international debt repayments to create a ship building industry and then offered prices to undercut the sales of existing competitors.

* Others which have recently opened profitable outlets in Italy, Spain and France because their beef can undercut German and Dutch competitors, are eager to expand those markets.

* There may be industries within the national economy in which enterprises stand to be progressively undercut by their international competitors in the long run.

* This poses a problem similar to that of enterprises being progressively undercut by international competition but where long term protectionist measures are not justified: the best response may be to seek means of re-deploying the workers involved.

* The Department of the Environment (DoE) is to introduce tougher legislation to prevent the illegal dumping of waste after legitimate companies have been continuously undercut by illegally operating dumpers who deposit waste on unapproved sites.

* Prejudice became mixed with self concern, the belief that Asiatic crews would work for lower wages and in worse conditions than British, and so undercut the union's effort to improve wages and work conditions.

* The giant retailer is delighted by the prospect of going to market, although he's reluctant to undercut the small shops who for years have kept the organic vegetable movement going.

* Competition amongst producers of commercial PC software has made it difficult for shareware authors to significantly undercut them and still charge a worthwhile amount for their products.

* There is no doubt his departure will be a big blow to Mr Major, and will undercut his authority as he battles to push though much needed reforms.

* Iraq's rulers hope that an autonomy deal will undercut all plans for enclaves, large or small, within their borders.

* As revealed exclusively in TODAY, yesterday, the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse.?

* The treaty would undercut German sovereignty by taking away powers from the German parliament.

* The company denied his authority is being undercut.

* The ability of party leaders to manipulate the nomination process had been substantially undercut, however, by party reform.

* Despite many attempts to establish acceptable modes of mutually intelligible professional literary language, such efforts had been undercut by increasing specialization and an at times impenetrable scholarly discourse.

* We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival.?

* But establishment of a special rate for domestic coal in the 1850s enabled German mines to undercut British coal, and regular coal traffic from Upper Silesia and the Ruhr to Berlin and other big cities was established.

* Is not that why other Governments and employers across Europe understand well today that the Government are reneging on that and wish this country to undercut others by treating workers in the worst way possible.

* Continuing with his initiative to undercut support for the PKK by relaxing cultural restrictions, Özal allowed the Kurdish New Year to be openly celebrated on March 21.

* Mr Yeltsin flung himself into preparations for a plebiscite to undercut the legislature's power, amid fears that the country was descending into turmoil or even civil war.?

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Momentum

momentum (noun) - continues to move more quickly and less likely to stop

gain momentum
competition gaining momentum
the fierce competition that is gaining momentum
momentum difficult to halt

momentum in technological innnovation
sustaining momentum
poor performance in sustaining momentum
the momentum of despondency
the constitutional amendment gathered momentum
the constitutional amendment later lost momentum
the momentum built up around these issues
there's been quite a loss of momentum lately

* Success, market valuation and cash flow provide a powerful momentum.

* Little progress is being made with this problem and it is feared that momentum may be lost by those opposing the scheme, especially over the Christmas and New Year periods.

* The telephones began buzzing with eager contributors and the fundraising soon gathered its own momentum.

* The Colonel was in a hurry, realising how essential it was to keep the momentum of the attack rolling, otherwise the resistance might become coordinated into a strong, interlocked series of defence positions.

* The fighter utilizing this leg steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in, thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power.

* There's been quite a loss of momentum lately in my area.

* This uplift in sales generated both improved results and an encouraging base for maintaining momentum.

* Moisture ran from her brow as the fire flourished and crackled and the pressure inside her gathered fearful momentum.

* And there was noise and motion as well, some rattling, juddering momentum of onward travel.

* He has built a following in the wake of the crisis which now has its own momentum.

* This momentum throughout the industry was difficult to halt.

* The company expected a steady improvement in results this year from the hard-hit general insurance sector as industry capacity falls and increases in premium rates gather momentum.

* A new aggressive attitude towards development of well trained exporters and marketeers is essential if this Province is to compete in the fierce competition which is gaining momentum.

* He is confident that the new acquisitions will play an important role in future growth, and believes that the momentum of the first half will be maintained to give a satisfactory outcome for the full year.

* It will now be essential for Sony and its allies to maintain the gathering momentum and to spread its influence as widely as possible if their impressive new computing platform is to become the world standard for electronic book publishing.

* The workers' movement gathered momentum and the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes, ever more political in motivation.

* The survey concluded that considerable momentum had been built up in the training of part-time teachers.

* If a punch is aimed at the face, the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum.

* Momentum, though, seems to favour Everett.

* Looking at the way the international bodies like IEEE and X/Open Co Ltd have failed to define even a basic set of standards due to the competitive nature of the marketplace, AFUU believes an international body of GUI users is what is needed to get some momentum going, a global organisation that can represent user requirements to the GUI providers.

* At tea-time the momentum of the day, or what was left of it after Doctor Connor's intrusion, petered out and things began to sag.

* From then on the snowball gathered momentum until on 24th November, the whole board resigned.

* At length he reached his hotel and was thrust through the front doors by the sheer momentum of the crowd.

* Such was the momentum, and even anger, aroused by our campaign that, shortly after the auction took place, the House of Commons Environment Committee mounted a special inquiry into the National Land Fund.

* Emergency hospital admissions developed a momentum of its own, not least because in some areas it seems the only way for elderly people to get a place in a local authority residential home.

* The research aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the relatively poor performance of British industry in sustaining momentum in the exploitation of technological innovation.

* The momentum of despondency was gaining apace.

* The constitutional amendment gathered momentum throughout the first half of the year.

* The World Bank has announced that its report for 1992 is to be dedicated to the themes of environment and development following the momentum built up around these issues as a result of the UNCED conference, to be held in Brazil in the same year.

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Encroach

encroach (verb) - moving into and using a space that doesn't belong to you

housing encroached on farmland
housing developments encroach on forest land

social duties constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing

* Trees and vines had encroached, running wild among the remnants of an ancient civilisation.

* The forest still encroached to the shoreline, falling back only when meeting occasional inlets where smaller streams joined the major river.

* I didn't have the time, nor would I have expected to be romanced in a way which might have encroached on either of our careers.

* What happened was that farmers, seeking more land, encroached into the flood plain where the river had split into a number of channels.

* But as the dark closed in again and his eyes began to adjust, the glimmering outline of a pale face encroached upon his senses.

* Building societies have taken advantage of the new regulations which allow them to raise 40% of funds on the wholesale markets, and are intent on maintaining their market share by encroaching on areas of lending business which traditionally belonged to banks.

* Civilisation was encroaching on her dreamy state and she resented it.

* She never encroached on anything that she deemed his territory, although he was not so circumspect in offering his opinion on design and colour.

* Housing developments continue to encroach on the forest lands.

* Compliance with the Building Regulations does not give you any legal rights to encroach on your neighbours' land, no matter how small the encroachment may be.

* With Hewlett-Packard Co threatening to encroach on its market area the company is expected to fight back next month with new hardware.

* These various measures encroach decisively on areas on which local authorities exercise responsibility.

* I sensed, without understanding the implications, that he had areas of being upon which I was forbidden to encroach.

* Today many of these temples lie submerged by the sea, for the land is flat and the sea has encroached all round the coast.

* A sand dune had encroached onto the road and he was slicing away its tip, tossing it clear of the road behind him.

* Even here housing has encroached, with the sale of one farm for housing development and proposed development of another.

* She eyed the bushes that encroached halfway across the path.

* Huge boulders littered their garden and gorse and heather encroached wherever they were permitted to survive.

* In consequence, the unprotected soil, depleted of binding organic matter, was rapidly eroded by wind especially and desert dunes encroached.

* Greenbelts are gradually being encroached upon.

* Industry encroached, roads ribboned, and the previously attractive landscape became dreary wasteland as farmers abandoned the small cut-off parcels of arable land as no longer being worth the effort.

* Deprived of prey, the tiger naturally encroached on farm land to feed on the deer attracted by the crops as well as to kill domestic stock.

* The abstract musings of macroeconomists did not encroach on the hard world of economic decision making.

* In magnificent mountain scenery, the country's capital of Kathmandu straddles a pinnacle in a tumble of ancient palaces and temples, encroached upon only by the trees and greenery which dot the scene.

* All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing.

* In effect the law has encroached upon vast areas of activity.

* It was only after birth that she suffered the injury, and it was then that her rights were encroached upon and she commenced to have rights.

* Fortunately for the players, only accredited golfing journalists were allowed to encroach on the fairways and everyone else was kept firmly behind the ropes and barriers which ran along the perimeter of each hole.

* He had supported the building design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park and if it was abandoned it would take first prize in the competition anyway.

* One feature which did unite the profession was the need to retain the market for private practitioners and not allow lawyers from neighbourhood law centres to encroach.

* If possible, the building should not encroach on the park and should harmonize with later buildings to be built in the area.

* The King sought to expel and chastise the barbarians, keeping them out of his northern territories and securing border areas where they might encroach.

* These examples are given in order to illustrate one of the dangers of the current preoccupation with the duties of citizenship, and that is the scope for it to encroach on the privacy and autonomy of the individual.

* Such a legal test much be wide enough to safeguard public morality, yet narrow enough not to encroach on private taste or conscience.

* It always seems presumptuous to encroach on self-sufficiency.

* To hold that a municipal corporation may maintain an action for libel would unduly encroach on the right of the public to speak freely concerning municipal affairs.

* He had, until then, been very unwilling to encroach on the authority of his formidable Secretary of State.

* Paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries show us a countryside where humans are not dominant but co-exist with Nature in the struggle for life; where cultivated fields are everywhere bounded by the wilderness which constantly threatens to encroach and claim back its own.

* If Johnson Brothers moves upmarket, will it not encroach on mid-priced markets?

* The airport extension would inevitably and inexorably encroach on the regional park and reduce leisure facilities.

* The urban sprawl had begun to encroach on farm land.

* Brambles, foliage and long grass are starting to encroach onto the highway.

* Bushes were beginning to encroach onto the footpath causing problems for pedestrians.

* There is insufficient time for the land to recover between cultivationsand exotic weeds began to encroach on the farmer's land.

* The sliding doors don't encroach at all, into any of the bedroom space.

* As she returned to her room and closed the door, she silently thanked him that, when rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room, he had on their arrival thought to invite her to share his sitting-room for half an hour.

* "They will encroach on the idle thoughts of 40 jockeys."

* All the loving and giving of small luxuries and necessities that she had not thought of herself, and the expected regularity of their attendance at those sumptuous Sunday luncheons, encroached dangerously on the precious isolation of life at Kileady.

* The transitional zone in the city planning model consisted of mixed and changing land-use, with housing gradually being encroached upon by light industry.

* Still, I guess we've encroached enough on your weekend, and a girl like you is bound to be in demand, he twinkled.

* According to one of the staff, she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne.

* The media, once again, saw it as further indication of encroaching madness.

* Desertification comes in several guises: as encroaching sand, degrading croplands and grazing, waterlogging and salinization of irrigated land, destruction of trees and shrubs, erosion and deterioration in water supplies.

* He held on to his love of unregimented activity in the open air, away from encroaching London suburbia.

* Even now, many desert towns would be buried if their inhabitants did not transport the encroaching dunes bit by bit to the other side of their settlements.

* We must go, he said, pointing at the encroaching paralysis.

* In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden…

* The problem is how to get away from the encroaching flood water.

* Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too, thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.

* Critics say it's encroaching on the green belt and would devastate local villages.

* They were encroaching on her private business.

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Door-to-door

door-to-door (adjective) - selling or delivering a product, service, or charity to the door of homes

door-to-door sales people
door-to-door pedlars
gave away cologne as a come-on for his door-to-door book sales
sample packs of the product delivered door-to-door
door-to-door salesman peddled cloths and brushes
a door-to-door brooms and buckets seller
sample packs of products delivered door-to-door

Door-to-door sales methods used for vacuum cleaners and household goods such as cosmetics
door-to-door sales people carrying a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods

* Door-to-door sales methods are used for a variety of products, from vacuum cleaners and household goods to cosmetics or double glazing.

* Most door-to-door sales people carry a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods.

* Our courier service provides convenient door-to-door service.

* I am glad I don't have to work door-to-door.

* More than 100 households will be surveyed in the door-to-door research.

* There is no antidote to the high pressure selling techniques sometimes employed by door-to-door salesmen.

* An increasing number of weekly newspapers are as free sheets and are delivered door-to-door free of charge.

* They will be raising funds through the door-to-door collections.

* The local charity secured local radio coverage and raised quite a lot of money from door-to-door collections.

* The insurance company specialises in door-to-door collection of insurance premiums from customers.

* The bicycle is cheap to buy and run and is in urban areas often the quickest door-to-door mode.

* If door-to-door journeys are to be possible, then effective integration with public transport is essential.

* In urban areas in Britain, over 37 per cent of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot, yet official data continue to stress that walking only accounts for three per cent of all mileage.

* Her preface to the book captures the world of war-time Paris where women struggled to remain elegant and the young Vautrin sold her work door-to-door from a suitcase.

* Door-to-door access from my home downtown to my apartment in Mallorca takes less than four hours.

* The contributions were paid weekly to door-to-door collectors.

* Reliable, cost-effective overnight door-to-door delivery nationwide.

* I disagree that door-to-door collections cause guilt and shame in many people.

* But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations, into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions.

* The company is offering a door-to-door truck-and-train service.

* The company is an international transport and forwarding organisation and although its home market is Europe the company can offer door-to-door transport to deep sea destinations because it is a liner representative for international shipping companies.

* A door-to-door poll showed a virtually equal number for and against candidate.

* The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission.

* This novel door-to-door collection service offers the perfect green solution.

* Yesterday officers were drafted in to make door-to-door calls in the area in the bid to trace the mother.

* Door-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession.

* David McConnell used to give away cologne as a come-on for his door-to-door book sales.

* A door-to-door salesman who peddled cloths and brushes for 30 years left 12 million in his will, it was revealed yesterday.

* Local groups organised write-a-thons, door-to-door collections and other fundraising initiatives to help alleviate the plight of children world-wide.

* More aggressive marketing was carried out by door-to-door canvassers in some areas, and promotional advertising also increased as the supply situation got easier.

* Because they were delivered door-to-door, their guaranteed circulation far exceeded the others.

* To avoid the damage to company status that would have accompanied widespread redundancies, many regular production workers were transferred to marketing jobs, including door-to-door selling.

* Next we did a door-to-door of the whole area.

* These are sample packs of products offered with brand-related products, attached to magazines, given away separately in retail outlets, delivered door-to-door, etc.

* The used-car trader, the insurance consultant, the door-to-door sales person applying high-pressure techniques have all brought selling into disrepute.

* We might try other sales techniques such mail order operations or door-to-door selling (eg cosmetics, household wares and double glazing).

* In view of this drop in income, the company has to reduce the costs of door-to-door distribution of the BA's Christmas catalogue.

* Door-to-door salesmen are posing as Fire Brigade representatives to sell potentially lethal fire extinguishers, it has been disclosed.

* British supermarkets, under government pressure to reduce the volume of waste packaging, are backing a door-to-door recycling scheme.

* The new recruits have been signed up to carry out a door-to-door skills audit in the area.

* Her apprenticeship as a missionary included door-to-door visitation, Pub booming, and taking part in both indoor and open air meetings.

* It should be emphasised that if the reputation of the developer for fair dealing is to be maintained, offers made for land found in this manner should be fair and reasonable, as from time to time speculators have acquired sites at far below their true value, in a similar way to door-to-door antique pedlars.

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