principal determinant
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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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determinant
noun[C]
uk/dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nənt/us/dɪˈtɝː.mɪ.nənt/
formal
something that controls or affects what happens in a ...
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This indicates that tree water status, rather than climatic factors directly, is probably theprincipaldeterminantof tree phenology in the seasonally dry tropics.
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In the authors' view, theprincipaldeterminantof attitudes to the exploitation of plant genetic information is the industrialization of agriculture and its effect on crop development.
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During those cases, affecting 17 lives, my conduct was aprincipaldeterminantof whether my client lived or died.
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The major determinant of need was seen to be population and theprincipaldeterminantof supply was revenue funding.
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It is the case that pupil numbers will be theprincipaldeterminantin school funding, so where rolls are falling, there will be consequences.
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Theprincipaldeterminantof the county council's ability to spend on services to the elderly remains provision of finance as dictated by the standard spending assessment.
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We are forced to have as theprincipaldeterminantof the level of our interest rates the position that our currency has in the exchange rate mechanism.
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The primary axis was theprincipaldeterminantof cache position in communally built structures.
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The total mass of a star is theprincipaldeterminantof its evolution and eventual fate.
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In fact, nonrandom colonization and the rate of exclusion are principal determinants of the component community structures regardless of the developmental pattern of trematodes.
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During the twentieth century, the agendas of leaders of the medical profession and its allies became the principal determinants of most health policy in many industrial countries.
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Water temperature and exposure to sunlight are principal determinants of cercarial life span.
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Among the principal determinants will be the external financing limits which have already been announced and the charges schemes which have yet to be approved.
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The principal determinants of the quality of education are the quality of teaching, the teaching methods and the spirit of the school.
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The principal determinants of fire service funding are the personnel, fire stations, and equipment required to provide fire cover.
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Family size and composition are now the principal determinants of nutritional status in our society.
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Acorn supply is one of the principal determinants of the amount of natural cherrybark oak reproduction.
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