central concern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcentralandconcern
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central
adjective
uk/ˈsen.trəl/us/ˈsen.trəl/
in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part ...
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concern
noun
uk/kənˈsɜːn/us/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofcentralandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The relationship between signed and spoken languages is acentralconcernhere.
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Intonation is acentralconcernfor interactive spoken language systems for both recognition and synthesis of effective dialogues.
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But it is precisely a historical judgment that is thecentralconcernof the present work by a distinguished linguist.
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As the declared "science of self/nonself discrimination," immunology'scentralconcernis the definition of the self and its defense.
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Clearly, acentralconcernwithin the study of presuppositions has been their resilience to negation, denial, and disagreement.
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Interactions of method, theory and practice represent acentralconcernof this symposium.
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However, this issue is not acentralconcern, given that most patients are very willing to be seen by medical students.
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However, hiscentralconcernwas with the issue of decentralization, and he devoted most of his political life to this one cause.
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The question of ideological thinking is a longstanding andcentralconcernin political science.
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Replicators-entities of which more and more copies get produced-are thecentralconcernof evolutionary biology.
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Acentralconcernat this exploratory stage was how to record data during the course of the observation sessions.
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Theircentralconcernis to understand modernity, yet, as the product of modernity itself, they could never achieve the critical distance to do this.
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These interconnections appear as acentralconcernof his philosophical inquiry as well.
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Evidently an imported concept, it does however provide a useful technique for understanding a local context or specific artefact through itscentralconcernwith typology.
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On both counts, it deserves to be acentralconcernof comparative political economy as conceived and practised by political scientists.
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Such a position is out of sync with ethics'centralconcernwith the voluntary.
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If what syntax really sees is features, the status of the distinction between head movement and phrase movement becomes ofcentralconcern.
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The role of government and of the state are governance'scentralconcern.
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Thecentralconcernof the interviews was to elicit information on communal women group roles in the oil economy.
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This book approaches its topic from an important angle : acentralconcernwith the dynamics of struggle and resistance.
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