positive contribution

collocation in English

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positive
adjective
uk
/ˈpɒz.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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(Definition ofpositiveandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpositive contribution

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There is a great deal of anecdotal support for thepositivecontributionof such support to student learning.
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Of course, if we are moderate egalitarians, this is sure to be outweighed by thepositivecontributionfrom the increase in mean welfare.
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The one-locus selection gradient provides apositivecontributionto the barrier for loci that are monomorphic in the recipient population.
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Only 56.4 % of the sample actively participated (defined as having made apositivecontribution) in 1991.
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He acknowleged its potentiallypositivecontributionto the public happiness.
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However, the mostpositivecontributionof the book is perhaps the way in which its contents suggest new items for the research agenda.
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Also, women's emancipation was ignored too long, and there was no evidence of apositivecontribution of immigrant self-help organisations to the integration process.
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Results of these analyses suggest that caregiver gesture with relevant descriptive speech makes a unique andpositivecontributionto later language performance.
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In both analyses, child attention sharing made a uniquepositivecontributionto later verbal performance.
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These readable translations are apositivecontributionthis book will make to the field.
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Avoiding punishment is bad for the criminal because he loses out on what would have been apositivecontributionto his life.
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The frequency of caregiver gesture with related descriptive speech made a significantpositivecontributionto language outcomes at 36 months.
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In the committee's working papers there had even been passing references to thepositivecontribution which public expenditure could make to economic growth.
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Since roughly 1930, the medical system has made apositivecontributionto public health.
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During his seventy-nine years he made nopositivecontributionto worship, pastoral care, theological understanding or church history.
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Individual responsibility was emphasised because of itspositivecontributionto the wider collective good.
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Hyperresistivity is found to be more often a hindrance than apositivecontributionto the reconnection process.
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The elasticity analyses and life-table-response experiments showed that entries with a highpositivecontributionto also showed high elasticity values, while those with a negative contribution to showed low elasticity.
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Based on her own morality, a psychiatrist may want to make apositivecontributionto justice - if only because, without justice, the therapy will never be effective.
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