golden thread

collocation in English

meaningsofgoldenandthread

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golden
adjective
uk
/ˈɡəʊl.dən/us
/ˈɡoʊl.dən/
made ...
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thread
noun
uk
/θred/us
/θred/
(a length of) a very ...
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(Definition ofgoldenandthreadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Surely, thegoldenthreadshould apply to them just as much as anything else.
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That is thegoldenthreadwhich should lie through all our foreign policy.
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Those two principles have run like agoldenthreadthrough the consultation process.
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It will remove agoldenthreadrunning through people's lives.
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When did he last see thatgoldenthread?
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Prosperity has never been one longgoldenthread.
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There have been many debates on prisons, penology, crime and punishment, and there has been agoldenthreadrunning through those debates.
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Thegoldenthreadthat has run through our economic success has been lack of intervention in economic matters.
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I agree very much with him that we should strive to preserve thegoldenthreadof responsibility between electors and elected.
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This challenge is not agoldenthreadrunning throughout our national affairs waiting to be woven into a new and more colourful national tapestry.
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I will single out one or two factors which run like agoldenthreadthrough most of the points.
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In particular, it has re-examined training programmes to ensure that thegoldenthreadof diversity is found throughout the service.
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In a free society, thegoldenthreadshould be the liberty of the individual, not the tyranny of the majority.
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That is of course at least a pleasantry, but it commands some very powerful recognition of agoldenthreadthat runs through all those religions.
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Is it not usually the case that he who tries to ride two horses with onegoldenthreadfalls through the middle and gets trampled by both sides?
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Agoldenthreadruns through the debate.
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Together with our attachment to the institutions of parliamentary democracy, it runs like agoldenthread linking successive generations and giving a common purpose and basic value to them all.
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It is thatgoldenthreadthrough the generations—and indeed through the centuries—that has kept such schools going and maintained their fame and quality.
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We say that any penalty is wrong if an offence is unjust—if it breaches thegoldenthreadof justice that means that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
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But thegoldenthreaduniting them all is that they are run by and for those who do the work rather than for investors and shareholders.
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