primary importance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandimportance
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandimportancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The latter one, which will be ofprimaryimportancehere, describes the sentences which represent a world different from the actual one.
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Second, given resource limitation and the association of movement with danger or food, detection of motion is ofprimaryimportance.
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Here contraceptive inefficiency is ofprimaryimportanceand this factor will now be considered.
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We proposed hierarchial control law, where the skier stability is ofprimaryimportance.
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The structuring and presentation of information for communicative purposes is an issue ofprimaryimportance in the development and assessment of safety critical systems.
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A free and fluid instrumental performance, freed from a rigid diachronic axis without damaging theprimaryimportanceof perception.
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Moreover, the correct choice of the host plant is ofprimaryimportancefor the maximum performance to be achieved.
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This means that the longitudinal component of the momentum equation is ofprimaryimportance.
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The selection criteria, other than yield, ofprimaryimportancein farmer selections included large seeds, white seeds, long pods, and large pods.
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This suggests that the spouse bond is ofprimaryimportance.
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To the novice, though, it seems that the contact with the production and manipulation of sounds is ofprimaryimportance.
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It is not a parameter ofprimaryimportance.
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They considered the great effectiveness and the comfort provided by the operation to be ofprimaryimportance.
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One of these problems is the collision-free path planning for manipulators, which has aprimaryimportancefor automatic programming of robots.
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Ofprimaryimportanceare the initial and the subsequent health states enjoyed by individuals.
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Theprimaryimportanceof ethical behavior is that it replaces demand as a constraint on supply.
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The corrector's charitable motivation is irrelevant, or at least not ofprimaryimportance.
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Ofprimaryimportance, was the need to lower the general level of hostility and number of disputes in the household.
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