whole enterprise
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwholeandenterprise
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whole
adjective
uk/həʊl/us/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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enterprise
noun
uk/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofwholeandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Males capturing'female reproductive power' clearly is a'transgression' which explains why thewholeenterprise is not only homologous to, but also the inverse of everyday life.
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Thewholeenterpriseoutlasted three of its editors.
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However, if a focus on micro-sociolinguistic and micro-contextual issues does not also become part of such a framework, thewholeenterprisemay remain incomplete.
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He has brought thewholeenterpriseto a conclusion all in one go and in an astonishingly short period of time.
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The most liberating part of thiswholeenterpriseis that it enables us to look at qualities without being obliged to point fingers.
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One assumes, however, that most of the visitors took thewholeenterprisea bit more seriously.
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Thewholeenterpriserepresents a formidable undertaking to which he has devoted decades of reading and reflection.
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But these are small matters in the context of thewholeenterprise, and this is a very good book whose efforts to pull together disparate constituencies merit high praise.
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He implies that errors in these condemn thewholeenterpriseof syntactic reconstruction, akin to the fallacy that would condemn all carpentry based on finding one inept carpenter.
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These considerations make thewholeenterpriseexpensive.
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And even for those who welcomed scientific scrutiny there only had to be a few cases that were unexplained to make thewholeenterpriseof the occult plausible.
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Just as the conservationist community was beginning to develop new strategies and tactics to influence political officials, new restrictions were enacted that threatened to scuttle thewholeenterprise.
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Gould himself oversaw thewholeenterpriseand in addition worked on many of the illustrations and did much of the lithography.
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From that standpoint, a vast question-mark exists about the validity of thewholeenterprise, and it becomes clearer as we proceed.
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Thewholeenterpriseis something of which to disapprove, not only because of its content, but because of its form.
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But unless a missionary spirit informs thewholeenterprise, can we have any confidence that the physical resources will achieve these objectives?
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In thiswholeenterprisewe must profit from past mistakes.
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Thewholeenterprisewas developed by the university.
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In many ways he was the intellectual architect of thewholeenterprise.
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Thewholeenterprisewas planned to the last detail, so that not even bad weather could seriously divert it.
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