tangible expression
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftangibleandexpression
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tangible
adjective
uk/ˈtæn.dʒə.bəl/us/ˈtæn.dʒə.bəl/
real and not imaginary; able to be shown, touched, ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition oftangibleandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftangible expression
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In this context, an individual's perspective changes with spatial orientation and, as such, represents a moretangibleexpressionof changing experience.
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What is required is not sympathy but atangibleexpressionof it in a measure of tax relief.
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They need atangibleexpression—a physical presence—to demonstrate that we remember.
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It is difficult to speak of subsidiarity without also speaking of the bodies which are its mosttangibleexpression.
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The set of initiatives that we developed in 2005 is the firsttangibleexpressionof the strategic objectives that we set ourselves over five years.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We have spent the money as atangibleexpressionof our support for the prison service.
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Thistangibleexpressionof patriotism is greatly appreciated.
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There is a strong link between volunteering and active citizenship: involvement in voluntary activities is atangibleexpressionof participatory democracy.
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This measure will give real andtangibleexpressionto our thoughts, and the blind will be immeasurably benefited.
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The establishment of the review body is atangibleexpressionof that commitment.
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But if there is such a feeling abroad, the sooner it findstangibleexpressionthe better.
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For many it is atangibleexpressionof their own worth to society.
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It is widely recognised as atangibleexpressionof society's concern for the victims of violent crime.
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The framework agreement is atangibleexpressionof this partnership between our two institutions.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
British building societies, owned and run for the mutual benefit of their members, were atangibleexpressionof a form of common ownership.
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By being equally accessible to all, solely on the basis of clinical assessment, it is atangibleexpression of social inclusion and a commitment to an integrated society.
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Well, they have left us some sort of man-made, material,tangibleexpressionin real stuff, real clay, real thick paint, which in its pulled back simplicity satisfies a surprising longing.
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Those figures are tangible expressions of our commitment.
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