persistent theme

collocation in English

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persistent
adjective
uk
/pəˈsɪs.tənt/us
/pɚˈsɪs.tənt/
lasting for a long time or difficult to get ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk
/θiːm/us
/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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Yet there is apersistentthemehere, that of opportunity.
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The interface between government and farmer is therefore apersistenttheme.
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The letters quoted in this book, almost all from women, reveal apersistenttheme: the recognition of the need for physical satisfaction and the constant threat of an unwanted pregnancy.
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First, global education reforms form an important part of the context for the growing interest in autonomy that has been apersistentthemein this review.
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The influence of religion on the life of the city is apersistentthemeand is represented by two theses.
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Apersistentthemein this journal has been measurement, quantitative evaluation and the relationship between engineering practice and scientific theory.
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Apersistentthemeis the question of musical or textual content: what is a piece of music or a prose work actually about, and how can we tell?
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Onepersistentthemeemerging from the book is that monitoring forest biodiversity often involves compromises between sampling for spatial or for temporal variability.
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Thepersistentthemerunning through those debates has been the need for mobility.
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The original forecast of the rate of growth, modest enough in all conscience, provided thepersistentthemeof countless ministerial speeches.
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We have had some discussions about the minutiae of monetary policy, but thepersistentthemeis the need to cut public expenditure.
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The mostpersistentthemeof this debate has been the shortage of tech- nicians under our education system.
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The onepersistentthemein this debate has been the complete incompatibility of modern technology with national defence as we have hitherto known it.
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The mostpersistentthemethroughout his films is tension in parent-child relationships.
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Reason is often said to be reflexive, or self-correcting, and the critique of reason has been apersistentthemein philosophy.
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Dusk, the time of day between light and dark, continues to be apersistentthemein the label's releases and events.
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One of the persistent themes (largely finessed from standard papers) within systematic analyses that rely on mor phological data, is the coding that is applied to continuously varying characters.
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Persistent themes include aging, delusional behavior, bad relationships, death, and the personification of inanimate objects.
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