powerful incentive
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpowerfulandincentive
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powerful
adjective
uk/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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incentive
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˈsen.tɪv/us/ɪnˈsen.t̬ɪv/
something that encourages a person to ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulandincentivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This policy has severe effects on private saving and growth because it creates apowerfulincentivefor early consumption.
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This policy context provided apowerfulincentiveto local organisations to develop new ways of engaging in dialogue with citizens.
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When transport costs fall dramatically, the winds of competition thus created give apowerfulincentive to importcompeting industries to lobby for more protection.
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They therefore had a verypowerfulincentiveto practice labour-intensive agriculture, especially in the form of frequent weeding.
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This fear of retaliation in future interactions, if one has not behaved well, creates apowerfulincentiveto cooperate.
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This recovery was made possible by knowledge and intelligence, in the information theory sense, embodied in human skills, organizations, and infrastructure and apowerfulincentiveto use them.
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This would give industry a much morepowerfulincentiveto provide information on and to investigate its own products.
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The fear of change and what it can mean is apowerfulincentiveto resist change and to slow it down by all possible means.
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It will be designed to provide apowerfulincentiveto recruit additional students and reduce unit costs.
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I regard the amendment as apowerfulincentiveto the effecting of speedy reform.
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In that way they will have apowerfulincentiveto recruit and retain additional students, both young people and adults.
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That should be apowerfulincentiveto local recycling efforts.
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That would provide apowerfulincentiveto miners to raise coal output.
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From this autumn, all maintained schools will have to publish their truancy records—apowerfulincentivefor under-performing schools to do better.
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If young people explained why we should get things right for them, that would act as apowerfulincentiveto adults.
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However bad it is, the fear of losing it remains apowerfulincentiveto say nothing.
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That is apowerfulincentiveto get the safety procedures right.
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Together, those changes will provide apowerfulincentivefor local health services to raise standards.
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The purpose of that is to provide colleges with apowerfulincentiveto recruit additional students.
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In this way they will have apowerfulincentiveto recruit and retain additional students, both young people and adults.
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