ultimate source
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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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But theultimatesourceof moral obligation is not discussed in this context.
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What was theultimatesourceof organic compounds?
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The reason is that theultimatesourceof asset accumulation is labor income.
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What formal characterization of that psychologically preferred motion will most elegantly reflect any simplicity, universality, and invariance of itsultimatesourcein the world?
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Theultimatesourceof value on my view would be these takings of attitudinal pleasure in the sensations rather than the sensations themselves.
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However, it is theultimatesourceof polygenic variation and, thus, the raw material for evolution and for genetic improvement of domestic plants and animals.
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Several of them suggest that reason is theultimatesourceof scientific knowledge, since it is divinely inspired.
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However, with the number of skilled workers constant, the income growth is moderate since theultimatesourceof asset accumulation is labor income.
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Clearly, though, parliament and the press do not treat each other as theultimatesourcefor their agendas, signified by the modest crossover coefficients.
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Both cases involve unstressed vowel reduction, which, as we have discussed repeatedly above, is argued to have itsultimatesourcein durational asymmetries.
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The insufficiency of the land allotment itself, then, stood as theultimatesourceof economic crisis in these areas.
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Clearly, future research should further explore the existence andultimatesourceof these individual differences.
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The nihilism of the band, confused through an array of horrific themes, does not confront itsultimatesource.
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Theultimatesourceof a-licensing potential in this form lies with position x2, the head nucleus of the word pantry.
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From the vantage point of both the county magistrate and his clerks, theultimatesourceof determining the distribution of these obligations was the written record of the household registers.
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While mutation is theultimatesourceof this variation, the role of other evolutionary forces (selection, migration and random genetic drift) in maintaining variation is generally unknown.
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The team of experts had to find out who was theultimatesourceof knowledge on the subject.
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We have to understand that ourultimatesourceof power is our industrial efficiency.
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Theultimatesourceof revenue is the production in this country.
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You cannot have a single market without a single andultimatesourceof legal authority.
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