"specify" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During the campaign, Mrs. Whitman deliberately avoided specifying where she would find the budget savings to pay for the tax cut.
- The passive voice may also be used to avoid specifying the agent of an action.
- The regulators are widely expected to answer their own question "no," and avoid specifying distances when they issue the final report in a month or so.
- In order to avoid specifying the default correlation between each entity pair in a portfolio a factorization is often applied.
- Carefully, he avoided specifying precisely what kind of authority he had.
- The plan deliberately avoids specifying any borders for the new state, leaving this open to negotiations, Palestinian officials said.
- Use of the passive voice to avoid specifying an authority (e.g. "it is said")
- Although changes in attitude are notoriously slow there are now some firms and local governments which positively avoid specifying age in their job advertisements.
- Advocates of gender-neutral language find it difficult to avoid specifying gender in Serbian, since it is so built into the language.
- Other forms of addressing are also possible, to avoid specifying the "maga" and "ön" pronouns.
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