verb
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To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
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To plan; to devise; to arrange.
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To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
adjective
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Performed through a concert of effort; done by agreement or in combination.
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Having separate parts for voices and instruments
Examples of concerted in a Sentence
It will take a concerted effort to undo the damage done in the last eight years.
For example, if there is an ongoing conflict between you and your boss, make a concerted effort to make an appointment with your boss.
Count Lamsdorff visited Vienna in December 1902, when arrangements were made for concerted action in imposing on the sultan reforms in the government of Macedonia.
He well knew that concerted action of the powers was impossible,, as the English government had firmly resolved not to meddle with French affairs.
There appears to have been a very concerted attempt to keep things very secret.
Its distinctive approach is to unite all the main actors in the first ever concerted approach to avert a major extinction crisis.
The report ran that Catherine had concerted the whole affair with the assassins, but this was speedily set down as a calumny.
However, if more individuals and businesses make a concerted effort to recycle, as well as reduce and reuse, it will have a powerful positive impact.
Rather, it is all the more important that we get serious and make a more concerted effort to put our individual and corporate houses in order.
Barrymore's second rehab stay was more successful than the first as she stayed there for 90 days and began making a concerted effort to stay sober.
In addition, since you are living in cramped quarters you must make a concerted effort to get along with your fellow colleagues.
The APDT offers individual pet dog trainers a respected and concerted voice in the dog world.
Dog fleas are a major nuisance, and the problem will only grow unless you make a concerted effort to eliminate them from your home and pets.
Organic gardens tend to take more of a conscious and concerted effort to maintain because you have to put more thought into pest control, weeds and feeding your produce.
Parents need to identify those skills and behaviors they want their children to demonstrate and then make a concerted effort to teach and strengthen those behaviors.
At ages five to eight, children make a concerted effort to please their friends, classmates, and playmates.
Don't try to make a concerted effort to let your mind go blank, let it happen gradually until you are no longer focusing on individual thoughts.Now we are going to use some imagery to help the mind descend into the hypnotic state.
As the insurance needs of the church change over time the leaders within the church should make a concerted effort to reevaluate the insurance coverage needs of the church.
Producers make a concerted effort to hold auditions in various regions of the country.
Everything was concerted in advance with the ecclesiastical authorities, and immediately after the baptism both child and nurse disappeared.
He summoned the first Intercolonial Congress in America, which met in New York on the 1st of May 1690 to plan concerted action against the French and Indians.
At his call, delegates from Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and Maryland met in New York City with delegates from New York on the 1st of May 1690 to consider concerted action against the enemy, and although the expedition which they sent out was a failure it numbered 855 men, New York furnishing about one-half the men, Massachusetts one of the two commanders and Connecticut the other.
At a Hansetag held at Cologne on the 11th of November 1367, three groups of the towns, seventy in number, concerted to attack Denmark, and in January 1368 Valdemar's numerous domestic enemies, especially the Jutlanders and the Holstein counts, acceded to the league, with the object of partitioning the realm among them.
Measures were here concerted against Pope Benedict, who was driven out of Rome in January 1059, Nicholas II.
On arriving at the borders of Spain, Elizabeth was met by the Princess des Ursins, but received her sternly, and, perhaps in accordance with a plan previously concerted with the king, at once ordered her to be removed from her presence and from Spain.
Still, differences of opinion and degree prevented concerted action; and when, after the Trafalgar Square riots in February 1886, Morris remonstrated with the anarchic section he was denounced by the advanced party and ever afterwards was regarded with suspicion.
Motamid, who wished to free himself from the guardianship of his brother Mowaffaq, concerted with him a plan to emigrate to Egypt, Ahmad being himself angered against Mowaffaq on personal grounds.
By this instrument it was agreed that the terms to be offered to Mehemet Ali having been concerted with the Porte, the signatory powers would unite their forces in order to compel the pasha to accept the settlement.
About the same time, and partly stimulated by Keble's sermon, some leading spirits in Oxford and elsewhere began a concerted and systematic course of action to revive High Church principles and the ancient patristic theology, and by these means both to defend the church against the assaults of its enemies, and also to raise to a higher tone the standard of Christian life in England.
In concert with the American generals, he planned an attack on Newport, preparatory to which he compelled the British to destroy some war vessels that were in the harbour; but before the concerted attack could take place, he put to sea against the English fleet, under Lord Howe, when owing to a violent storm, which arose suddenly and compelled the two fleets to separate before engaging in battle, many of his vessels were so shattered that he found it necessary to put into Boston for repairs.
Castelar was compromised in the first rising of June 1866, which was concerted by Marshal Prim, and crushed, after much bloodshed, in the streets by Marshals O'Donnell and Serrano.
So many of the chief actors in the Mutiny on the native side carried their secrets into dishonoured graves that it is impossible to know exactly what schemes the household of the The king of Delhi had concerted with the disaffected sepoys.
This favourable case is not realized at every opposition, but in 1900 the distance was as little as one-third of that of the sun, and it was observed from October 1900 to January 1901 photographically upon a concerted but not absolutely uniform plan by many observatories, of which the chief were the French national observatories, Greenwich,.
Though the French attempt at a concerted invasion had failed, however, the Directory did not abandon the enterprise, and commissioned Bonaparte to draw up fresh plans.
In later times revolts were easily stirred up among individual cities, but a united national movement was rarely concerted.
This result, though widely inaccurate, came much nearer to the truth than any previously obtained; and it instructively illustrated the feasibility of concerted astronomical operations at distant parts of the earth.
The Liberal government recalled Weyler, and sent out, as governor-general of Cuba, Marshal Blanco, a conciliatory and prudent officer, who agreed to carry out the home-rule policy which was concerted by Seor Moret and by Sagasta, with a view to obtain the goodwill of the president of the United States.
He said he was confident it could be solved painlessly and economically, if only concerted action was taken.
A similar still more comprehensive plan of murder was then concerted for the 5th Feb.
In social issues, mutual distrust plays such a key role, rendering society incapable of engaging in concerted action.
The POA have formally asked for a full independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the concerted indiscipline at HMP/YOI Hindley.
An unwelcome change in the regime of an institution could potentially lead to concerted indiscipline or worse.
For five months, a concerted media onslaught launched against republicans followed the Northern Bank robbery and the murder of Robert McCartney in Belfast.
It was decades before any concerted push for testimony was made and by then time had eroded its value.
This is all symptomatic of a broader, concerted assault on our freedoms.
He recognized, however, that in the event of a great European war the two nations would in all probability be found fighting on the same side, and that if they made no preparations for concerted military action they would be placed at a grave disadvantage in comparison with their opponents of the Triple Alliance, who were believed to have already worked out an elaborate plan of campaign.
Wellington assumed the offensive, and by various movements and feints, aided the guerrilla bands by forcing the French corps to assemble in their districts, which not only greatly harassed them but also materially hindered the combination of their corps for concerted action.
Gneisenau at this crisis in the affairs of the allies does not appear to have subordinated everything to co-operation at all cost with Wellington, and he allowed supply considerations and the re-establishment of his communications to overweigh the paramount necessity of arranging concerted action with his ally.
The letter remained unanswered, the powers having reason to believe that it was a mere political move, and that its terms had been previously concerted with Napoleon.
This was his last exploit, for he died the same year, to the great grief of Wladislaus IV., who had already concerted with him the plan for a campaign on a grand scale against the Turks, and relied principally upon the Grand Hetman for its success.