fundamental element
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffundamentalandelement
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fundamental
adjective
uk/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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element
noun
uk/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition offundamentalandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Yet this loggia had already become afundamentalelementin his planning repertoire.
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For him it was an intuitive andfundamentalelementof the thick concept of causality.
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That is thefundamentalelement.
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Afundamentalelementof this achievement has been to go beyond the narrow confines of previous approaches.
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It should be no surprise to anyone if afundamentalelementin the experience of these individuals is insecurity.
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But it does not describe another equallyfundamentalelementof the table's (and chemistry's) presentation, the language it used.
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Thisfundamentalelementmust never be taken from our schools.
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Housing is onefundamentalelementin people's living standards.
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Lively, pluralistic information is thefundamentalelementof democratic debate.
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Sectoral agreements may form afundamentalelementin this process.
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We believe that this is afundamentalelement.
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The second mostfundamentalelementof our environment is air.
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Tolerance is afundamentalelementof respect for human rights.
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Onefundamentalelementis the fight against child labour.
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Human rights are afundamentalelementof a modern society.
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This is the mostfundamentalelementin the proposal.
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The rise of wage labour in the countryside forms afundamentalelementin the transition to a modern, capitalist economy and society.
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To conceptualise children in any way that does not acknowledge this would seem to be lacking afundamentalelementof children's lives.
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Involvement is seen as a prerequisite to the success of any conversational encounter; it is afundamentalelementin creating and maintaining an interactional exchange.
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Thefundamentalelementof integration - and thus of constitutional and judicial equality in theory - was territory, the sharing of a land common to all.
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The commercial production of timber will remain afundamentalelementof government policy.
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This seems to me to be afundamentalelementin the approach we should take.
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Openness and transparency are the lifeblood of democracy and afundamentalelementin our own safety.
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Firstly, the broad guidelines of economic policy are confirmed as afundamentalelement.
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