simplistic approach
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simplistic
adjective
uk/sɪmˈplɪs.tɪk/us/sɪmˈplɪs.tɪk/
making something complicated seem simple by ignoring important parts ...
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approach
noun
uk/əˈprəʊtʃ/us/əˈproʊtʃ/
a way of considering or ...
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Most of the previous work has, by necessity to gain some basic understanding of pollutant toxicity to parasites, followed asimplisticapproach.
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Other parts of the judgment, too, are problematic when they replace controversial and complex issues of therapy with a relativelysimplisticapproach.
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The second reason why gender progressive groups have proved weak during the land tenure reform debate has been their overly legalistic andsimplisticapproachto the issue.
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The usual platitude -where there 's life, there 's hope -does not clarify the confusion, and clinical practice puts paid to asimplisticapproachto hope.
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This is asimplisticapproachthat assumes that all bands of the same size are similar and allows analysis of variance to be carried out between different profiles.
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Thatsimplisticapproachhelps no one —the problem is more complex than that.
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I suggest that theirs is the simple andsimplisticapproach.
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The times are bad, but it would be wrong to adopt a toosimplisticapproachand place blame on one group or another.
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I know that this may be described as asimplisticapproachto the world problem.
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As criteria for decision-taking in this important area, those factors reveal asimplisticapproach.
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That is a rathersimplisticapproachto the changes in industry in this country.
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My experience leads me to one conclusion, namely, that thesimplisticapproachmust be put on one side.
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The widespread feeling is that the proposals are a costly andsimplisticapproachto a very complex problem.
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Let us not have thissimplisticapproachtowards privatisation.
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It is not merely that thissimplisticapproachhas predictably had to be jettisoned.
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Thesimplisticapproachof such a per capita share-out causes difficulties.
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Here we see asimplisticapproachand the abolition of all controls.
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My consideration of the proposal takes a verysimplisticapproach.
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A moresimplisticapproachto problems is often what is needed.
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There is sosimplisticapproachto the subtlety of educational problems in a rapidly changing society.
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