structural issue

collocation in English

meaningsofstructuralandissue

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structural
adjective
uk
/ˈstrʌk.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the way in which parts of a system or object ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofstructuralandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstructural issue

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However, sequence progressivity is not only astructuralissue.
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It will therefore be looked at as a remedialstructuralissue.
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I wish to raise astructuralissue.
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That is a fundamentalstructuralissue.
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If anything were done about it, it would probably solve that problem of the master rate, which would be absorbed into the much widerstructuralissue.
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However, some argue that quotas inadequately address the largerstructuralissueknown as the glass ceiling.
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There may be a deeper,structuralissueat work, however.
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A lack of rafter ties is a seriousstructuralissuein a conventionally framed roof.
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This rapid weathering process has been astructuralissuefor the statue in its 300 years of existence.
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Given the competing intellectual and structural issues, not forgetting the need to provide a base for career development, this can provoke problems.
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The latter imposes strong requirements on the structure of minimal dilations, and we conclude by elaborating on these structural issues.
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To understand the impact of these structural issues on the production of health care, it is useful first to consider the funding of health care in more detail.
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We have to be realistic and bold in addressing these major structural issues.
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Leaving funding elements aside, vital strategic and structural issues have to be tackled.
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We have already seen some of their measures to combat poverty, poor housing and unemployment: structural issues that cause and promote poor health.
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Moreover, there would be a risk of bringing the implications for local plans forward at the same time as decisions were sought on structural issues.
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In particular, they refer to structural issues that could foster such cohesion.
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That would allow quicker action to be taken regarding cleaning in abattoirs, abattoir walls and other structural issues.
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They tend to be set up to consider general principles and major structural issues rather than to establish the immediate cause of an accident.
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