key actor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandactor
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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actor
noun[C]
uk/ˈæk.tər/us/ˈæk.tɚ/
someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film, play, or television or ...
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(Definition ofkeyandactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In sum, the institution is potentially akeyactorin addressing some of the most pressing dilemmas and omissions facing the new democracies.
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Akeyactoris the physician, who is unlikely to change his or her practice if income is lost.
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The consumer, far from being celebrated as akeyactorin ensuring social democracy, has more often been reviled as a challenge to rational, stable, democratic society.
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In fact, it is thekeyactor.
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The first approach emphasizes 'concentrated' interest groups as the key actors in influencing policy outcomes.
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Our story has two key actors, men who had little in common.
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It has provided the window by which the intricacies of power and the positions of key actors within the policy process could be examined.
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The author sides with those scholars who consider strong states to be key actors in shaping economic growth possibilities.
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That is, the research agenda of such agencies is typically determined by an advisory committee having representation from all the key actors.
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Reformers therefore need to look at the key actors and their motives : who wants change and why, and who will benefit?
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The other 'causes' of cabinet dissolution given above are each the result of voluntary decisions by key actors.
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What matters is which ones key actors regard as significant, for which purposes and under which conditions.
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However, it appears that ideas held by key actors, rather than ideas in institutions, provided the impetus and set the direction of reform.
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Because of these responsibilities, it is currently accepted that unions are key actors in the debate concerning their pension system.
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To create a different world is a somewhat larger matter of reflexive behaviour on the part of a critical mass of key actors.
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There has been a tendency to emphasise the rhetoric of key actors and downplay what was actually done.
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Lawyers are involved in the inquisitorial system of justice, but as advisors to their clients rather than as key actors in a trial.
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State governors have largely replaced cabinet secretaries as key actors in the presidential nomination process.
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Political parties are key actors in the process of democratisation and the consolidation of new parliamentary democracies.
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Secondly, it is broad because it involves key actors from both the public and the private spheres.
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