public consciousness

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandconsciousness

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public
adjective
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/us
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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consciousness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us
/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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(Definition ofpublicandconsciousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But this valley has similarly become a more or less mythical landscape inpublicconsciousness.
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Educational programs may be needed to raisepublicconsciousnessconcerning the actual value of current policies compared to new ones.
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Steadily, the grand themes which formerly linked thepublicconsciousnessacross national boundaries have weakened.
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In other words, in a modern state terror need not be wholly applied for it to be effectual in thepublicconsciousness.
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There was clearly a preexisting level of interest andpublicconsciousnessabout cloning.
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Successes and failures in that care easily reach the headlines and thepublicconsciousness.
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The curriculum is designed to act as a bridge topublicconsciousnesson astrobiological issues.
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In its repeated telling, the events deter mined to be the salient ones are recalled and cemented into thepublicconsciousness.
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Yet the perception that this new industry exists seems neither to have fully enteredpublicconsciousness, nor that it is possible only due to the new communications technologies.
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Urbanization, rather than industrialization, appears to have been a critical force in generatingpublicconsciousnessof accidental injuries and the need to provide for them in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Having become established withinpublicconsciousness, the concept was extended to embrace similar behaviours directed at ordinary individuals and thereby became a phenomenon potentially effecting us all.
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It has been especially important to increasepublicconsciousnessof the need to protect minors.
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Secondly, the concentration on smaller classes has eradicated frompublicconsciousnessall the other factors that affect children's performance at school.
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I want the commission to examine ways to raisepublicconsciousnessof its seriousness.
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Then it struck me how interesting it was that in this country the sufferings of animals figure largely in thepublicconsciousness.
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What we are saying here is not anchored firmly enough in thepublicconsciousness.
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She raised the profile of the campaign and gave it added momentum, so that it made a significant breakthrough in thepublicconsciousness.
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Most important is the need to awakenpublicconsciousnessto the extent of the problem.
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What really worries me about television, the screen and novels is the cascade of violence which is pouring into thepublicconsciousness.
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