broad acceptance

collocation in English

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broad
adjective
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/brɔːd/us
/brɑːd/
very ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk
/əkˈsep.təns/us
/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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(Definition ofbroadandacceptancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbroad acceptance

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There wasbroadacceptanceof brief intervention approaches but a lack of support and specific incentives for this work impeded its delivery in routine practice.
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Originally published in 1997, it has gathered abroadacceptancein the academic community, which this 1999 reprint is testimony to.
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Following thebroadacceptanceof this motion, a working group was established to prepare for the parliamentary investigation.
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There is nowbroadacceptancethat poverty is a relative state.
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The advantages of this approach is that the semantics is self-contained, simple and enjoysbroadacceptance.
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If we can getbroadacceptanceon compliance, that will be very welcome, but we need imaginative penalties, as well as draconian ones.
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There isbroadacceptanceof the principle of a national curriculum.
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However, thisbroadacceptanceof—perhaps it would he better to say resignation about—rates would certainly not have survived revaluation.
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I think that there is alsobroadacceptanceof the need to spend only what the country can afford.
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There isbroadacceptanceby some, strong resistance from others and some evident misunderstandings.
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That means that about 104 do, which shows that there isbroadacceptanceof the scheme.
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This guaranteesbroadacceptanceof the changes being made.
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Thebroadacceptanceof timetabling —the difference between timetabling and guillotines is marginal—has come as a great surprise to me.
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It may be true that the law is most effective when it is universally accepted, or at least when it hasbroadacceptance.
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It is unique, too, because it producesbroadacceptancebut also many problems, reservations, cavils, quibbles and difficulties, which have been well aired tonight.
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He has not achieved what any of us would have wished to achieve had we been dictators, but he has nevertheless achieved a measure which will findbroadacceptance.
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There isbroadacceptanceof the fact that the disparity of treatment between the public and private sectors should be harmonised by improving the private sector arrangements.
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There isbroadacceptanceof that.
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Nevertheless, we must consider the needs of other young people if we are to get thebroadacceptanceof the welfare state that we all want.
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New rescue packages will only gain the necessarybroadacceptanceamong citizens if they also offer effective controls and sanctions.
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