primary consideration

collocation in English

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primary
adjective
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/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us
/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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consideration
noun
uk
/kənˌsɪd.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/kənˌsɪd.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
the act of thinking about ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandconsiderationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprimary consideration

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To return to theprimaryconsiderationof the financial input for research, a longer-reaching comparison can be made with the 'high tech' industry.
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They certainly look dramatic, displayed against a black background, but it makes you realise that artistic impression was theprimaryconsiderationhere.
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In contrast, for epidemiological analysis theprimaryconsiderationis not the clinical significance of individual results, but the proportion seropositive at each age.
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For example, if the distribution of production risks was theprimaryconsideration, then one would expect output taxes to consist of the highest-risk products.
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Maintaining adequate cell sizes for examining attachment in combination with multiple other domains was aprimaryconsiderationfor the main analyses.
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However, theprimaryconsiderationin the use of the progressive is aspectual.
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Though many enrolled in composition programmes with large studio facilities, this was not aprimaryconsideration in their educational decisions and instead became one beneficial aspect of their choices.
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But that was not theprimaryconsiderationin my mind.
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Theprimaryconsiderationwas the need to ensure the highest possible standards of administrative efficiency and staff management.
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Theirprimaryconsiderationwill be in establishing a reputation for their circuits.
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They have repeatedly stated that defence is theprimaryconsideration, overriding almost all others.
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In making these transfers theprimaryconsiderationhas been economy in transport and there has been no discrimination against rural districts.
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Theprimaryconsiderationmust be the convenience of the electors, and the more polling stations there can be the better.
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Aprimaryconsiderationwill be the maintenance of the maximum food production in the zone.
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There is greater need in some areas than in others, and those areas where there is the greater need should have theprimaryconsideration.
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I do not think that the number of houses is theprimaryconsideration.
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Theprimaryconsiderationis open market value with vacant possession, excluding any improvements the tenant may have made.
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Theprimaryconsiderationwhen decisions on applications for listed building consent are being taken is the architectural and historic merit of the listed building.
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I reassert, however, that conservation of wild species and so on must be theprimaryconsideration.
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That is aprimaryconsiderationfor them, but so far it has not been done.
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