Competition for membership is intense, and campaigning goes on in overseas capitals and the corridors of the United Nations for months before the voting.
Last month, the Academy announced what it called a "sweeping series of substantive changes" to its membership, following intense criticism over the lack of racial diversity in this year's nominees.
In a single social milieu (generally the inhabitants of the same locality, generation, and social class), the chance of the complete adoption or rejection of a new dialectal feature is very great; the intense contact and consciousness of membership within the social group fosters such uniformity.
Speculation that all single-sex fraternities and sororities would be required to adopt coeducational membership policies led to intense campus debate.
The opening of negotiations for EU membership will trigger more intense reforms, especially in public administration and justice.
You blame an intense work schedule, high cost of gym memberships, and lack of time for your gluttonous, slovenly existence.
"The European Commission has thrown a hand grenade into an already intense debate about the U.K.'s continued E.U. membership," he said.
He also gave them political and moral advice, expressing support in his remarks at the airport for Poland in its effort to move toward membership in the European Union, a topic of intense debate here.
Reform activism was more intense in countries with a longer record of EU membership; ALMPs and other benefits where made more generous especially in these countries.
The evidence also shows that, other things being equal, reform activism was more intense in countries with a longer record of EU membership.
