key decision

collocation in English

meaningsofkeyanddecision

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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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decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition ofkeyanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The generalizability of results atkeydecisionpoints may be debatable.
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In worst-case scenarios, they may even feel excluded fromkeydecision-making processes.
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Figure 2 tabulates each of thekeydecisionpoints and issue areas against possible reasons for behaviour as proffered by theories covered in this paper.
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But in areas ofkeydecision-making, particularly in the business sector, women remain largely absent.
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However, only in the former have indigenous actors influenced the decision-making process and made alliances with thekeydecision-makers.
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Anotherkeydecisionconcerns the information that is included in the case descriptions.
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Akeydecisionin choosing an architecture seems to be how active the central server should be.
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Collectively, those who reachedkeydecision-making positions were the least interested in putatively scientific methods and held more traditional views of diplomacy informed by an awareness of history.
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Practices that built incentives for long legislative tenure and that channeled long-serving members intokeydecision-making positions no doubt resulted in a variety of policy consequences.
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Such discretion may satisfy the individual needs of thesekeydecisionmakers but ensures that social policies are nonoptimal, opaque, and difficult to monitor to ensure accountability.
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The study, a politico-economic analysis of health sector regulation, is based on a stakeholder analysis drawing on the views ofkeydecisionmakers, service providers, organ donors and recipients.
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Thekeydecisionmakers who presided over that process were not affected by their decisions.
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That earlykeydecisioncould have avoided far more of the losses.
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A referendum of the people would well serve their need to be informed before such akeydecisionis taken.
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Thekeydecisionhere for football concerns the form and powers of any new regulatory body.
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The definition of akeydecisionis pivotal and the regulations have two approaches to it.
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What constitutes akeydecisionis a specific question that councils are being asked in that consultation.
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Regulation 15 contains the definition of akeydecision.
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Some have excluded opposition parties altogether fromkeydecision-taking committees.
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We aim to provide relevant briefing to 3,000 of thekeydecision-makers in the top 1,000 companies.
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