brute fact
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbruteandfact
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brute
adjective[before noun]
uk/bruːt/us/bruːt/
great physical force ...
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fact
noun[C or U]
uk/fækt/us/fækt/
something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there ...
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(Definition ofbruteandfactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That is simple,brutefact.
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Indeed, a degree of gender segregation in later life is also a consequence of the followingbrutefact.
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Certainly the realist will say that some such conditional is, as a matter ofbrutefact(and no doubt unverifiably), true.
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We have supposed that then there is no explanation as to why pressing the power switch resulted in a green light - it was just chance, abrutefact.
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All of this suggests that such causal loops (as a whole) are a kind ofbrutefactthat is not subject to divine active or permissive control.
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Surely that, put simply, is thebrutefactwhich we are up against today.
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Thebrutefactis that the production of coal exceeds the demand at present prices.
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The simplebrutefactis that this deficit has to be met and to be paid for at some time.
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Thisbrutefact, that the probability of winning a seat is greater at higher district magnitudes, also explains why the runner-up rebound phenomenon is stronger in higher district magnitudes.
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Thebrutefactis that there is more spending power than there are resources, if we are to restore our balance of payments.
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But we must learn to live with thebrutefactthat as the years go by more and more money buys fewer and fewer aircraft.
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Most people excel in something, but thebrutefactis that one is usually incompetent in more things than that in which one is competent.
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But thebrutefactis that in law a council can seek an order for possession and, ultimately, the court has no option but to grant it.
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The next common factor is that there is always abrutefactwhich is too big for politicians to deal with and which they have not fully absorbed.
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But nothing can palliate, in my view, thebrutefactthat the people of this country are receiving dull, dreary food and too little of it.
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By this, he is not only referring to abrutefact, or the factuality of a concrete historical situation, e.g., born in the '80s.
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It is what it is, abrutefact, and what one must now examine is the conditions that are necessary for its appearance.
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This is true of some forms of moral realism, which states that something can be wrong, even if every thinking person "believes" otherwise (the idea ofbrutefactabout morality).
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