actual circumstances

collocation in English

meaningsofactualandcircumstance

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actual
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/
existing ...
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circumstance
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us
/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofactualandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The belief that attitude determined the way life treated one was more a reflection of personality than of actual circumstances.
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All-things-considered power is power to do an act given all actual circumstances. 30.
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The evaluations thus reflected personality and self-perception as much as the actual circumstances of the individual.
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Under the actual circumstances movements face, there is a tension between non-coercion and democratic inclusion.
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Just as the micro-historical approach often misses the direction or cause of macro social changes, the expansive overview sometimes obscures the actual circumstances and variety of such changes in life.
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An ethic of care understands children through their relationships, grounds decision-making in the actual circumstances of children's lives, and emphasises the importance of the activity of care.
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This way we know that the agent is reason sensitive and that their conduct in the actual circumstances in question reflects - reflects on them and who and what they are.
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We may think that this is trivial, but it is not trivial in the actual circumstances.
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People make wills and settlements with their actual families and the actual circumstances of the time in mind, and they forget that circumstances may change.
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They cannot reflect, except by chance, the actual circumstances of particular people and cannot claim to be representative of the population at large.
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I cannot anticipate what measures would be taken in advance of the actual circumstances.
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Nobody knew the actual circumstances which would then exist or made the slightest provision whatever for securing the necessary licences.
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They were placed in such a position by the actual circumstances that it has been found impossible for them to keep up their sinking funds.
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The actual circumstances of the day have been bad enough, but hope has kept us going, and we have not lost hope.
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Let me deal with the actual circumstances of the case.
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Consequently, there could not have been contemplated, in those circumstances, the actual circumstances of the war as they came about in the event.
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Secondly, we are concerned with the actual circumstances of the particular industry as going to that general point.
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He does not seem to have followed the actual circumstances of the case.
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It would preclude consideration by the committee of the actual circumstances, whether the cost is to be up or down.
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