serious consideration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandconsideration
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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consideration
noun
uk/kənˌsɪd.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/kənˌsɪd.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
the act of thinking about ...
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(Definition ofseriousandconsiderationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofserious consideration
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I like to think that this is a plausible counter-argument that deservesseriousconsideration.
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Its principles deserveseriousconsiderationby management and practitioners in other localities.
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Thus, in this sense, it can be argued that aseriousconsiderationof causality requires a sociological approach.
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For this reason alone, it deservesseriousconsideration.
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The idea of creating similar searchable databases for other international regimes or governance systems meritsseriousconsideration.
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Rather, it is that aseriousconsiderationof agency conflicts directly with virtually everything else that we do as archaeologists.
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Many students, probably most, have never givenseriousconsiderationto the possibility that software testing cannot ensure correctness.
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This book, therefore, deserves worldwide dissemination andseriousconsiderationon the part of competent scholars.
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But the study itself would have been a richer and more capacious one had she included moreseriousconsiderationof other forms of representation.
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The assumed blocking mechanism clearly lacksseriousconsiderationof the timing of the processes involved.
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Good inference in any scientific field requires aseriousconsiderationof alternative hypotheses.
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We argue that answers to these questions will be enlightened by taking internal psychological mechanisms intoseriousconsideration.
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A discussion of "specificity" quickly gets spooky in the absence of aseriousconsiderationof what is specified.
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In this case specific objections were made to the second act, which neededseriousconsideration.
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We ourselves are not much attracted to this position, but we do recognize that it deservesseriousconsideration.
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While her arguments call forseriousconsideration, there is too little positive evidence for her case to be deemed conclusive.
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The point is that moreseriousconsiderationneeds to be given to the general direction being taken.
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In all, it has been a decade with several turning points, each exciting and complex, each deservingseriousconsideration.
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