Example sentences of "clear message " in BNC.

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1 Often parents sit on pupils ' chairs facing the teacher across the teacher 's desk , a situation which gives clear messages of status and power .
2 Now that we have the means to observe samples of language which must be fairly close to representative samples , the clear messages are : a ) We are teaching English in ignorance of a vast amount of basic fact .
3 How each existing club will adapt to this remains to be seen , but clear messages for more non-competitive activity came across , including the civilising of premises where necessary .
4 Those two movies had messages , very clear messages coming through .
5 The ideal tactics should be a mixture of both , but only if a clear message can be communicated to the Hong Kong people that someone is standing up for them somewhere .
6 Mr Gorbachev 's clear message was that the time had not yet come to abolish the party 's monopoly of power , but that it might well do so when a new political structure had been worked out , and the present economic crisis overcome .
7 The clear message from the budget was that the next general election should be delayed until the last minute , in June 1992 .
8 Peter Monroe , president of the RTC 's supervisory board , said in a recent interview that he has got ‘ a pretty clear message from Congress ’ that he is not running a social service .
9 As important as the preaching of Moody were the songs of Ira Sankey with their simple words , clear message and catchy tunes .
10 Greece 's conservative government conceded yesterday that a socialist victory in a weekend by-election in Athens had ‘ given us a clear message ’ .
11 Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’
12 The clear message behind this and so much more of national policy at present is that teachers can not be trusted .
13 There is a clear message here for all potential rabbiters and sportsmen .
14 The clear message sent is that voters have lost faith in existing governing parties that enjoyed riding the long boom of the 1980s , but have no policies for a post-Berlin Wall Europe .
15 In a clear message to the French , he added : ‘ All of us recognise the importance of reaching agreement on a whole series of complex matters .
16 His sacking is a clear message to other officers that they will receive no sympathy for their indiscretions .
17 HE MAY not say it in public , but George Graham has a clear message this morning for Ian Wright : ‘ I can always get another forward but see what trouble you 'll have leaning backwards on a broken career ’ .
18 The characters , it is often alleged , are flat ; there is not enough awareness of sexuality ; good and evil are presented as absolutes , without a proper sense of inner conflict within individuals ; there is something incoherent in the ‘ main pattern ’ of the story , which prevents one from reading it as ‘ a connected allegory with a clear message for the modern world ’ .
19 Did Tolkien go on from the exploitation of occasional scenes to the manipulation of plot , the creation of recognisably symbolic characters , the thing the TLS reviewer asked for so plaintively , ‘ a clear message for the modern world ’ ?
20 Birmingham-based BSA Tools boss Keith Bailey , 57 , claimed outside court that the Government had given a clear message it wanted to trade with Saddam 's regime .
21 On that day the Mexican Government plays host to United Nations ' World Environment Day , the purpose of which is to send forth a clear message :
22 A spokesperson for the Council for National Parks said ‘ This gives us the clear message that conversion of derelict buildings for tourism developments in national parks should be sensitive to the quality of the environment . ’
23 ‘ I think this endorsement sends a loud and clear message to the Bush-Quayle campaign : Poppy , do n't preach . ’
24 Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared .
25 And it sends a clear message to the heads of the regions that , when Mr Yeltsin talked about sacking opponents of reform at all levels of government , he meant it .
26 It would give a clear message : that the nuclear-weapon states have stopped developing new nuclear weapons .
27 The sense that many potential carers are guarding their own positions in situations where the care of a relative becomes a live issue in a family , is matched by the very clear message that older people in particular are wary of asking too much of their relatives , or of ‘ having ’ to rely on them .
28 However , the Sun 's italicised section in the body of its report — ‘ he had wooed her five years with champagne and romantic meals , getting just a kiss on the cheek in return ’ — provides the clear message of what allegedly out-of-work actresses are expected to give tycoons who make that son of trouble .
29 The software will be available direct from SMCC as well as from Sun Express and SunSelect , sending a clear message it wants to be a one-stop shop for corporate customers .
30 Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared .
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