compelling case

collocation in English

meaningsofcompellingandcase

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compelling
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/
us
/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/
If a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is ...
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case
noun
uk
/keɪs/
us
/keɪs/
a particular situation or example ...
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(Definition ofcompellingandcasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcompelling case

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She makes acompellingcase.
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Perhaps acompellingcasecan be made for the non-iteration constraint.
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He concludes that there is nocompellingcasefor the necessity of deregulation to increase economic productivity.
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These essays make acompellingcasefor re-examining cultural constructions that encase descriptive texts about toleration.
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We can also identify several harmful consequences of this testing policy that together make acompellingcaseagainst testing.
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Now it is acompellingcase.
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There is acompellingcaseon that ground.
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It makes acompellingcaseagainst its adoption.
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There is an extremelycompellingcasefor reviewing the policy.
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He makes acompellingcaseon behalf of his constituents.
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Chapter 6 starts with acompellingcasefor both feature selection and feature extraction, both of which can help with dimensionality reduction.
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He also makes acompellingcasefor the retention of a non-totalizing concept of class as a useful theoretical tool.
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In our review of these factors, however, it does not appear that anycompellingcasecan be made for preferring indirect to direct schemes.
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For an archaeologist to make acompellingcase, he or she must not simply refer to a few selected psychological results.
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There would almost always be an ' evidential problem of evil ' against believing in the existence of these beings, a rathercompellingcasein fact.
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Still, the book presents acompellingcasefor statistical language analysis, a mainstay of the '50s and '60s but now enjoying a renaissance.
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To summarize, then, metaphoric compounds provide acompellingcasein which children can extend a word metaphorically to be a modifier of another noun.
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The mostcompellingcasefor testing, particularly actuarial testing of the sort contemplated here, is to protect facilities against the damaging consequences of informational asymmetry.
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This edited volume makes acompellingcasefor recognising the legitimacy of ethnic-based interests and developing mechanisms for accommodating them in a democracy.
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But in general correlation with single variables does not indicate links so powerful as to imply acompellingcasethat there may be a causal connection.
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The authors elaborate acompellingcasefor theorising gender and age relations, rather than, as at present, ' bolting on ' age to feminist discourse or gender to social gerontology.
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The author revisits his field research, making acompellingcasefor considering the diversity of activities and people as a cause for optimism for the future.
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A strength of the book is that it makes acompellingcasethat values are a necessary part of the psychiatry as a medical speciality and a science.
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Acompellingcaseagainst amalgamation could be made on those factors.
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