sphere of activity

collocation in English

meaningsofsphereandactivity

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sphere
noun[C]
uk
/sfɪər/us
/sfɪr/
an object shaped like a ...
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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofsphereandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsphere of activity

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During the antebellum decades, just whatsphereofactivitythe national government encompassed was debated amidst growing conflict-class, ethnic, partisan, and sectional.
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Market actors may use their opportunities for broadening theirsphereofactivityto circumvent public policies that would impose regulatory costs on them.
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There is nosphereofactivitybeyond the boundary of this symbolical world.
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It can therefore be argued that community nursing has partial perhaps even minimal control over itssphereofactivity.
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The state's divergent commitments to 'progress' and, alternately, nonintervention were defined bysphereofactivity, not period of time.
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Instead, it might be deemed appropriate to institutionalize a particular liability rule for a particularsphereofactivity.
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Despite the almost yearly celebrations of the 'year of the woman' in rock in the 1990s, the rock industry continues to remain a maledominatedsphereofactivity.
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Technical innovations may emerge from contradictions or disagreements in onesphereofactivity, and be shaped through controversy, debate and negotiation in an entirely different context.
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Second is the division of labour between singers, dancers and instrumentalists, each group having a clearly definedsphereofactivitybased on its role in the spectacle as a whole.
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Those developments have affected almost everysphereofactivityand that momentum is set to continue in the foreseeable future.
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It represents a departure from the approved system of exempting organisations operating in thissphereofactivity.
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They will be executive as to their very limitedsphereofactivity.
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So we are dealing with structures, and asphereofactivitywhich are of great concern to us.
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I had an example of it brought to my notice only this morning in a particularsphereofactivitywhere it might least be expected.
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Soon rating will disappear from thesphereofactivityof local authorities and will pass to a central organisation.
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He said that the item of increased cost of equipment, and so on, was quite outside his ownsphereofactivityand interest.
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Finally, there is the marketing question, which is just now proving to be a most importantsphereofactivityin regard to agriculture.
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That is not an interference with local authorities; it is in fact an increase of theirsphereofactivity.
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We are discussing methods of immobilising men, of preventing them from being effective and therefore of removing them from asphereofactivity.
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At least in onesphereofactivitywe have this co-operation.
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