profound question

collocation in English

meaningsofprofoundandquestion

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profound
adjective
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/prəˈfaʊnd/us
/prəˈfaʊnd/
felt or experienced very strongly or in an ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofprofoundandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Not until the nineteenth century did the concept of a natural law come intoprofoundquestion.
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That is aprofoundquestion.
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That is theprofoundquestionyet to be resolved.
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Vital though those both are, there is, for us, aprofoundquestionof principle.
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We all recognise that for many of our constitutents this is aprofoundquestionof conscience.
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Many of these activities must surely come into deep andprofoundquestion.
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That is a veryprofoundquestionand one which we do well to ask ourselves.
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Oneprofoundquestionraised by the crisis is, what circumstances in the modern world justify military action?
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We again have theprofoundquestion: to whom do the civil servants owe their responsibilities and duties?
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It does not raise anyprofoundquestionof principle, because it is an extension of previous measures.
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There must also be aprofoundquestionabout the survival of the one major communist political system left in the world.
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We must ask ourselves aprofoundquestion: do we want to see more and more people pushed into some kind of means-tested support?
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He ranged from the toffee paper problem, and parental responsibility for it, to the much moreprofoundquestionof the new divide.
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That is theprofoundquestion: do closed shops exist for the protection of union members and employees, or simply to further the power of union officials?
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