growing movement

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowingandmovement

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growing
adjective
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And this is agrowingmovement.
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There is agrowingmovementamong the fifty states to enact similar requirements for state documents.
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There is agrowingmovementtowards inconvertibility.
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It will strengthen an already strong andgrowingmovement.
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However, with the demobilizations after the war, and thegrowingmovementto reduce sinecures and unnecessary posts, salaried positions became rarer.
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There appears to be agrowingmovementaway from the reductionism and the thoughtless fact collecting that have, at times, appeared to be gaining the upper hand.
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It is the natural thing to do in order to see whether there is agrowingmovementor not.
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I believe it is agrowingmovementand is something that people increasingly are going to understand.
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On their return they found themselves attracting friends and neighbours into agrowingmovementof parent meetings.
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I know it is illegal but there is agrowingmovementfor underground bare knuckle fighting and it happens whether we like it or not.
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There was evidence of agrowingmovementin the cities of workers' collectives, which is very familiar to the incipient changes here.
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You have also agrowingmovementof industrialism, with all the social problems which it must inevitably bring in its train.
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For this very small sum of £75,000 a popular andgrowingmovementhas been jeopardised and enthusiasts have been hard hit.
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I am not satisfied that thegrowingmovementtowards industrial and commercial amalgamations is against the interests of consumers or the economy as a whole.
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I welcome thegrowingmovementbetween the public and the private sector at the further education and the higher education levels.
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Activists came to consensus to occupy public space in solidarity with thegrowingmovement.
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In the past two decades, a rapidlygrowingmovementfor dialogue has been developing.
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There is agrowingmovementto incorporate social responsibility within the green industries.
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These changes only added more leaders and rebels to thegrowingmovement.
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They all are a part of thegrowingmovementthat is ocean conservation.
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Despite the momentum of thisgrowingmovement, there was virtually no interaction between the groups.
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Since the 1980s, there has been agrowingmovementto further integrate the two activities.
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At the time, transcendentalism was agrowingmovementthat focused on pinpointing the discrepancies of society.
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