fundamental alteration

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandalteration

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fundamental
adjective
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/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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alteration
noun
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/ˌɒl.təˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑːl.t̬əˈreɪ.ʃən/
a change, usually a slight change, in the appearance, character, or structure ...
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(Definition offundamentalandalterationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Children who experience maltreatment, however, often show afundamentalalterationof the organization of evaluation, representing themselves and their worlds in pervasively negative terms.
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De-regulation resulted in afundamentalalterationin the role of the state.
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Thisfundamentalalterationof the common trend - which was to register rather late in pregnancy, if at all - necessitated a multilevel educational campaign within the community.
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It is a tribute to the brilliance of the theory's founders that their original insights have survived the increase in rigor and generality with embellishment but nofundamentalalteration.
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For those who did not share his approach, however, the switch to rent was afundamentalalterationwhich destroyed the only safeguard against an indiscriminate enfranchisement.
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The first is that it is not workable withoutfundamentalalteration.
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The amendment would permit afundamentalalterationto primary legislation by administrative fiat without any consultation or proper parliamentary control.
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As he has said, nofundamentalalterationhas been made.
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I have reviewed the postal arrangements in this area and can find no present justification for making anyfundamentalalterationin them.
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Indeed, some of these proposals would involvefundamentalalteration, in the existing position without providing the permanent solution.
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This would not be the right place to make afundamentalalterationin respect of bail of this kind.
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This is a proposal for afundamentalalterationof the judicial system, and of the primary principles which have prevailed for centuries.
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The iron gates are secured by afundamentalalterationof the frontier.
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I repeat that neither of those two bodies recommended anyfundamentalalterationin the main framework of the scheme.
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Again, we are not now seeking afundamentalalterationbut merely adjustments and a transitional period.
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Such afundamentalalterationin the law is a matter that should not be decided without very great consideration.
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Clause 16, whether one agrees with it or not, is afundamentalalterationto the common law of this country.
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So the point that we must have good lawyers can only be met by somefundamentalalterationin the present system.
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But we do have afundamentalalterationin national strategy.
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If that doctrine be true, the mostfundamentalalterationin the strategic position which this country has always had has undoubtedly taken place, and it puts us in extreme peril.
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