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The Comprehensive Spending Review will mean comprehensively higher spending.
And I mean comprehensively : if you think it's bad now then just wait until the "internet of things" bandwagon really rolls.
Related: Labour manifesto pledges to boost minimum wage and cut deficit Miliband is determined to junk the post-Thatcher consensus that promoting economic growth meant protecting "wealth-creators" at the top of society – a view he and his supporters believe was comprehensively disproved by the great recession and its aftermath.
"These observations together with the documented incidents, very clearly and comprehensively demonstrate how prolonged immigration detention threatens the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of asylum seekers, particularly children".
"The failure to comprehensively document and investigate deaths of asylum-seekers at sea or in immigration custody while other fatal incidents invoke large-scale and international ad hoc responses, as in the case of missing flight MH370, suggests that certain lives effectively count for more than others, both at a domestic level and within the international community".
Speaking about his appointment, Nardelli said: "The Guardian is one of the few global news organisations that still comprehensively focuses and invests in international news, and never has there been a more exciting time to join a news organisation.
The Hepworth gallery museums in Wakefield and in St Ives are wonderful homages to her life and practice, but in rooting her so comprehensively in the place she grew up and in the place where she lived and died, visitors are perhaps in danger of denying Barbara Hepworth her due in the pantheon of international 20th-century art.
It makes sense to go after the Shinners just after they were comprehensively beaten in the south, by subsuming most of the SDLP's indigenous base in Northern Ireland.
On Thursday the outgoing Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, comprehensively trounced in the election, attended a European commission conference in Brussels where he enjoyed a standing ovation almost as if he had been the victor.
It is therefore important that the president does not unnecessarily rush in his engagement with it, but considers it comprehensively and carefully to ensure appropriate measures are taken to ensure that the tragic events at Marikana do not recur".
To put it bluntly, we are heading for a society that is comprehensively surveilled.
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The adverb "comprehensively" modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, indicating that an action or quality is complete and thorough. It emphasizes the extent and depth of the action or quality being described, as demonstrated by Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
