conservation programme

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meaningsofconservationandprogramme

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conservation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.səˈveɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.sɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
the protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of ...
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programme
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ɡræm/us
/ˈproʊ.ɡræm/
a broadcast on television ...
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(Definition ofconservationandprogrammefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We must step up theconservationprogrammeto ensure economic utilisation of our oil and natural gas.
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We shall extend and develop ourconservationprogramme.
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The existing energyconservationprogrammeis continuing and being intensified.
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However, as this programme is primarily directed to overall engine improvement, we modestly refrain from including this expenditure—some £20 million—within our energyconservationprogramme.
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The energyconservationprogrammeis expected to cost some £125 million in 1979–80.
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It offered a three-year energyconservationprogramme, funded entirely by shareholders.
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An effective energyconservationprogrammeis impossible without a serious approach to energy pricing.
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The authors then use the size of the required support payment as their indicator of the magnitude of theconservationprogrammecosts.
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In addition, the administrative and technical support costs of theconservationprogrammealso need to be accounted for.
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An energyconservationprogrammewhich bites too deeply might affect our industrial effort and make us worse off than we were orginally.
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We did not know the details of the energyconservationprogramme.
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The project has introduced a soilconservationprogrammethat promotes integrated crop and animal husbandry and safeguards the environment.
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Instead of running down the food industry, we should be building it up, and we should have a major energyconservationprogramme.
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Local authorities were first asked for bids for the public sector energyconservationprogrammein their housing investment programme submissions for 1979–80.
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Can he promise any increased grants for industry or domestic users, in order to carry forward a genuineconservationprogramme?
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Has any thought been given to that question, and has any possible calculation been done on what it might do to the energyconservationprogramme?
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We have a short time in which to deploy an effectiveconservationprogramme.
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We hope that a long-termconservationprogrammewill allow the fleets to continue fishing.
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That is an energyconservationprogramme, which would at least have saved a few hundred million pounds on the balance of payments.
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Will he take its advice on how to introduce an effectiveconservationprogramme?
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The human element is the very foundation of everyconservationprogramme, just as it is also the reason for it.
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I believe that we have a good energy efficiency andconservationprogrammeat present.
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