point of divergence

collocation in English

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point
noun
uk
/pɔɪnt/us
/pɔɪnt/
an idea, opinion, or piece of information that is said ...
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divergence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdaɪˈvɜː.dʒəns/us
/dɪˈvɝː.dʒəns/
the situation in which two things ...
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(Definition ofpointanddivergencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The secondpointofdivergenceis linked with the agenda shaping of reform and its content.
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The thirdpointofdivergenceis reform capability, in particular the government effectiveness and capacity to translate external and internal pressure into tangible reform outcomes.
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I believe that thepointofdivergencehere between contractualism and consequentialism concerns not just what is relevant but how it is taken into account.
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Onepointofdivergencewas the view of narcomania itself, that is to say the fixation with a particular drug.
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Similarities in many aspects sharpen the contrast between thepointofdivergence, whether the money then appreciated or depreciated.
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This can then be pursued by following information chains until thepointofdivergencebetween desired and produced is located and then by altering/adding as appropriate.
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Apart from one major methodologicalpointofdivergenceit indeed appears that we are in broad agreement, even if we do appear to take different viewpoints on empirical elements.
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I must call attention to the fact that there is anotherpointofdivergence.
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Entries indicate the original publication date, thepointofdivergenceand a brief synopsis of the plot.
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Where characters travel to the past, they may cause changes in the timeline (creating apointofdivergence) that result in changes to the present.
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This, however, comes after the series' mainpointofdivergence.
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Each episode had an alternate historypointofdivergenceand dramatized the results of that change.
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Thepointofdivergenceoccurs in the year 1938.
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A 2007 study pushes thepointofdivergenceback to around 800,000 years ago.
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These points of divergence appear to be associated with differences in the security of children's mental representation.
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Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to thepointofdivergence.
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The first may be more accurately called a diverging universe whereby two versions of the universe share a common history up to apointofdivergence.
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However, they also point out that we may have underestimated the residual points of divergence.
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Montgomerie's review seems to be the source of the legend that the book's bibliography includes a small number of real works that predate thepointofdivergence.
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I hope today's debate will enable us to reconcile the remaining points of divergence between the two reports.
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