main thrust
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandthrust
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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thrust
noun
uk/θrʌst/us/θrʌst/
the main idea, subject, or opinion that is discussed or ...
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(Definition ofmainandthrustfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themainthrustaddresses the form and function of a variety of clause types.
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Ideologically, themainthrustis a conscious attempt to redefine the boundaries of state action.
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Themainthrustof the work is to show the knower's participation in what is known.
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This is themainthrustof what we presented in the preceding sections.
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Itsmainthrusthas, therefore, been identified, but who exactly are the revisionists?
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This of course encapsulates themainthrustof my critique.
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Three different methodologies for spatio-temporal database design are described as themainthrustof their research.
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Throughout, however, themainthrustof his analysis focuses on conceptual issues, on the complex 'thought-text' of ideology, rather than on objects, institutions, symbols and identities.
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There is often some chronological development within and, to a degree, between sections but themainthrust, and suitably so, is upon themes and their potential interpretation.
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Itsmainthrustis a message of how we can be saved from our sins and receive eternal life.
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Themainthrustof contemporary evolutionary biology has been to place the emphasis on the individual (or more properly still, the gene).
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Themainthrustof this article is that an analysis of redistribution in industrialized democracies must emphasize the institutionalized constraints placed on social democratic governments by corporatism.
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Themainthrustof this work is to treat the initial convective phase of a fluid heated from below as a statistical initial value problem.
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Themainthrustof this work is to establish conditions for which (optimal) sustained economic development is possible in the face of an environmental constraint.
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Themainthrustof this paper is to present a framework for the analysis of the tensions which structured the discussion.
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However, themainthrustof the book is on why animal experimentation is justified and here the argument is partial, in both senses of the word.
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Themainthrustof the conference was archival, explaining what was available and where, unifying within a single forum sources that are scattered widely across the world.
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However, for most of the post-war period, although valued by many amateur naturalists, without formal designation the common remained outside themainthrustof conservation management.
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