central tenet
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcentralandtenet
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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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tenet
noun[C]
uk/ˈten.ɪt/us/ˈten.ɪt/
one of the principles on which a belief or theory ...
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(Definition ofcentralandtenetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The safety of survivors of domestic violence is thecentraltenetof this research project.
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This, above all, is thecentraltenetof the biopolitical movement.
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Itscentraltenetis state action to promote the equal standing of minority groups.
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The emphasis for these, and many other philosophers, is that thecentraltenetof being a person is intelligence together with the ability to reason.
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It is this impartial stance toward voices, undoubtedly antithetical to the training of many clinicians, which emerges as thecentraltenetof the book.
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Thecentraltenetto be presented here is that these two visual systems parallel the ecological and constructivist approaches to perception, respectively, in their function.
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Thecentraltenetof client-centred care is the focus on the holistic needs of people in care.
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In both folk and punk/indie, this tendency has an elitist aspect, reproducing acentraltenetof canonism - the distinction between authentic and apocryphal texts (the religious connotations seem apt).
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Second, the central government must not provide cash benefits for family care-givers because it would be detrimental to the 'socialising care' concept, thecentraltenetof the law.
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Thecentraltenetof symbolic interactionist theory is that people act as they do on the basis of socially constructed meanings.
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Thecentraltenetis a valid one : understanding evolutionary turnover is crucial to understanding current patterns of biodiversity.
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It is acentraltenetof political liberalism that the power of the state ought not to be used to make people virtuous.
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This latter theme was to become acentraltenetof his later theoretical work - as the 'inbetween'.
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Thecentraltenetof our parliamentary democracy is freedom of speech.
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That mistake—and it is a mistake—makes no difference to thecentraltenetof the argument.
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Thecentraltenetof our economic policy must be to try to improve the employment situation.
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Decoupling is acentraltenetand is quite revolutionary in itself.
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