general agreement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandagreement
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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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agreement
noun
uk/əˈɡriː.mənt/us/əˈɡriː.mənt/
the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or ...
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There is no consensus on what exactly constitutes mild ventriculomegaly although there isgeneralagreement that a ventricular atrial measurement of 510mm is abnormal.
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Although there is some controversy as to the importance of these factors there seems to be ageneralagreementas to their existence.
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Although the consultation process indicated that there wasgeneralagreementregarding the desirability of the unit, appreciable challenges exist.
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There isgeneralagreementthat gains in efficiency could be made.
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The research continued untilgeneralagreementwas reached concerning what constituted the main problems with planning and managing design project teams.
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There was nogeneralagreementas to exactly what these changed social and economic conditions were.
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We foundgeneralagreementthat demonstrating effects on clinical endpoints, also referred to as studying effectiveness, should be a main issue in drug regulation.
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Admittedly, there is nogeneralagreementas to the identity of domains.
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As noted above, among psychologists there isgeneralagreementthat information once learn ed is not lost.
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Despite thegeneralagreementof theoretical models, few data exist testing the above predictions.
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Ageneralagreementwas reached to unite all existing forces, including the communists.
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There wasgeneralagreementamong commentators that the data on perceptual organization impairments in schizophrenia are evidence of a failure of coordinating mechanisms.
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Ageneralagreementhas been found in terms of the maximum energies.
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The problem is again complicated by lack of anygeneralagreementof what a prison sentence is intended to do.
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There is, however,generalagreementon a number of points.
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Across this body of work there isgeneralagreementon what constitutes human rights violations without necessarily appealing to their normative origins.
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There seems to begeneralagreementamong genre experts that the issue of writer purpose is essential to genre theory.
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The transaction costs associated with achieving broad andgeneralagreementon the nature and character of national regimes are very high indeed.
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