appropriate circumstances
collocation in Englishmeaningsofappropriateandcircumstance
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appropriate
adjective
uk/əˈprəʊ.pri.ət/us/əˈproʊ.pri.ət/
suitable or right for a particular situation ...
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circumstance
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofappropriateandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is too early at this stage to predict when theappropriatecircumstancewill arise to allow a full withdrawal.
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I do not believe that this is anappropriatecircumstancein which to do so.
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For example, a definition requires appropriate circumstances, such as in a text written by experts aimed at initiates.
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Several modes of access to memory are available and are used under appropriate circumstances.
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Moreover, there is little to stop complements from being extraposed, given the appropriate circumstances.
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In appropriate circumstances, making a decision more costly can have the same effect.
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Under appropriate circumstances, though, it can be shown that the pore remains patent but altered in its selectivity.
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However, given appropriate circumstances, this inference is blocked, allowing contraindexed expressions to be co-referential.
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Like all cercariae, these organisms initially develop inside an intramolluscan parasite before becoming active free-living larvae that, given the appropriate circumstances, mature into adult parasitic flukes.
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This demonstrates how voluntary licenses may be used to support local production agendas (which may then be used for issuance of domestic or regional compulsory licenses under the appropriate circumstances).
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In the presence of appropriate circumstances, such as the onset of substantial physiological changes in the winter, the beliefs an individual holds about the self could be activated or exacerbated.
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It also builds on the existing policy of selling units to tenants in appropriate circumstances.
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In appropriate circumstances income can later be increased by taking an additional loan with which to buy a further annuity.
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I understand that in appropriate circumstances stags are also caught.
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It should be used in appropriate circumstances, and modified when it seems sensible so to do.
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Clause 28(3) accordingly already requires all records (and therefore all copies) of prints and impressions taken to be destroyed in the appropriate circumstances.
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I am quite sure that in appropriate circumstances people drawn from universities will be involved.
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Student nurses, like other adults, will be liable for the personal community charge and eligible for community charge rebates in appropriate circumstances.
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In my view, it is right that in that situation legal aid would be available in appropriate circumstances for those proceedings.
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From time to time, however, in appropriate circumstances, there must be an uprating that goes beyond what the retail prices index demands.
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