intellectual achievement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandachievement
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intellectual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/us/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The earliest mutual improvement societies were often offshoots of a church or chapel, and sought to combineintellectualachievementwith particular and specific moral values.
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But nationalism is certainly not the telos of history nor is it the highestintellectualachievement.
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Ifintellectualachievementjustified greater freedom in public discussion, it also demanded social and political disciplining of one's inferiors.
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This paper presents the results of an updated review of the literature regarding theintellectualachievement of only children, enquiring whether only children are intellectually advantaged or disadvantaged.
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Even so, the findings have been important in showing that there are continuities as well as discontinuities inintellectualachievementand that the continuities are heterotypic.
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But none of us realised at the time just how great anintellectualachievementit was.
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It is a door to a room full of the unparalleled riches of humanintellectualachievement.
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How disadvantaged will they feel when university entrance is regarded as a right irrespective ofintellectualachievementor effort?
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There is stock depreciation relief and there is that supreme pinnacle ofintellectualachievement—the inflation-proof pension.
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To them the words "democracy, co-operation,intellectualachievement" are words and nothing more.
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People of anyintellectualachievementdo not have to demonstrate.
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That will be quite as powerful a criterion as theirintellectualachievement.
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Is it not an amazing anomaly that anyone capable of theintellectualachievementthen accomplished should be regarded as unfitted to exercise the franchise?
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First, what one might describe as maintaining the level ofintellectualachievement—mainly in the pure sciences and fundamental research—the advancement of knowledge.
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Is it because theintellectualachievementof children is so low or is it because graduates do not regard them as a sufficient challenge to their own intellectual powers?
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Handbooks at the time criticized the test as only a measure ofintellectualachievementand not of personal characteristics expected of physicians.
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It was soon apparent that it was a massiveintellectualachievement, and that it would take much time and study to assimilate it.
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Lesserintellectualachievementmeans a less happy or even painful afterlife.
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If so, we would certainly want the intellectual achievements embedded in life-saving seeds and medicines to be freely available in poor countries.
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Classical statistical mechanics represents one of history's foremost intellectual achievements.
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