general acceptance

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general
adjective
uk
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
us
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk
/əkˈsep.təns/
us
/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandacceptancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgeneral acceptance

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Withgeneralacceptanceof the complexity of this latter process in mind, the comments have usefully underlined some fruitful and significant areas of research.
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This has been a major drawback for a moregeneralacceptanceof the philosophy of extreme hemodilution during bypass.
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They may or may not be, but ageneralacceptanceof supervenience does not commit us to ageneralacceptanceof type-type identifications.
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However, the papers cohere around ageneralacceptancethat institutional practices and percepts strongly influence both the construction and interpretation of written texts.
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However, the inconsistency of the appearances of these structures has not resulted ingeneralacceptanceof their existence.
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As described earlier, there is ageneralacceptancethat women have more extensive social relationships than men.
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However, this terminology is very complicated and it has not receivedgeneralacceptanceamong helminthologists.
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These numbers may not only mirror thegeneralacceptanceby cardiologists, but also the clinical compliance of the different devices.
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Nevertheless, there is a strongly held view that bleeding pattern analysis which does not relate to a 28-day cycle will not receivegeneralacceptance.
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Yet, arguably, she noticed the absence precisely because it appeared to contradict the thengeneralacceptanceof the unconscious.
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But in cases where there is ageneralacceptanceof the need to bring a violent conflict to an end, principled arguments become highly important.
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But many writers, afraid of putting off potential readers, are unwilling to adopt the system before it has gainedgeneralacceptance.
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This has constituted a "hard problem" in the bilingualism literature because of thegeneralacceptance of the assumption that lexical selection is competitive.
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Nevertheless, it is a significant symbolic demonstration of a state'sgeneralacceptanceof the norm.
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There is ageneralacceptancethat the majority of the work force, especially the largest group, the nurses, works reasonably efficiently.
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Generalacceptanceof the structure of authority is held together by its own bootstraps, so to speak.
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This legitimization, relying on probabilities, has not, however, gainedgeneralacceptance, since even nowadays, the so-called "quota" method does not follow the canons of random selection and of confidence intervals.
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The existence of organized markets andgeneralacceptanceof a medium of exchange reduces consumption risk so that people choose a higher level of specialization relative to barter.
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As opposed to what the rapporteur indicated in his presentation of reasons, this agreement is not based ongeneralacceptanceof all parties.
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