key mechanism

collocation in English

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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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mechanism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition ofkeyandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The appropriate selection and weighting of local motion information thus seems to be onekeymechanism underlying self-motion estimation in fly tangential neurons.
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Swing leg control, therefore, is thekeymechanismfor walking speed control.
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As with social policy in general, partnerships in sport policy have emerged to become thekeymechanismof service delivery.
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For them, thekeymechanismis not plausibility but competition.
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Thekeymechanismis expected to be the way the two boundary layers merge and how the resulting inner wake develops.
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However, in uncompetitive environments, legitimacy is thekeymechanism.
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Thekeymechanismwould be the new stakeholder schemes offering low administrative charges and relatively low contributions.
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It was thekeymechanismof imperialism at large.
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Thekeymechanismthat produces the real effects of money-based disinflation is the link between the nominal interest rate and the demand for real balances.
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Thekeymechanismin their analysis is a state-contingent gain sequence.
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Thekeymechanismunderlying these strategies and institutions is encouraging transparency about others' motives and actions.
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Ultimately, we believe that, as with dissociation and anomalous threat, the operative orkeymechanism also involves alterations in normal consciousness stemming from the parent's fearful state of mind.
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In combination with our receptive syntax data, considerations regarding semantic memory deficit in schizophrenia include the possibility that some type of timing dysfunction is akeymechanism.
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Among other things, it provides powerful corroboration for a policy emphasis on poverty alleviation and the promotion of economic growth as akeymechanismfor improving environmental results.
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Teichman's book, thus, speaks to a current debate in the political science literature on market reforms while emphasising akeymechanismin their implementation : policy networks.
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We are using health indicators as akeymechanismthrough which to target resources.
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Thekeymechanismfor achieving that is the establishment of strategic area reviews.
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Local transport plans set out authorities' strategies for transport, and will be thekeymechanismfor pulling all that activity together locally.
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