consistent application
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconsistentandapplication
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consistent
adjective
uk/kənˈsɪs.tənt/us/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
always behaving or happening in a similar, especially ...
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application
noun
uk/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæp.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an official request for something, usually ...
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(Definition ofconsistentandapplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I do assume, however, that coherence applied to practical reason would call for aconsistentapplicationof reasons.
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However, the careful selection, synthesis, and packaging of evidence-based health messages, such as guidelines, have not resulted in theirconsistentapplicationin clinical settings.
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A four point rating scale for the classification of words as technical or non-technical was developed, and its potential forconsistentapplicationtested with an inter-rater reliability check.
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Second, since it is not possible to specify whether a given individual will exhibit "resilience" (manifest adaptation despite adversity) in a particular environment, it has noconsistentapplication.
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We have insisted that more must be done to ensure effective andconsistentapplicationof the rules.
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I have never seen anything butconsistentapplicationon the part of those engaged in work.
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Secondly, why not have aconsistentapplicationof regulations in every local education authority?
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That results from theconsistentapplicationacross the country of common standards.
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If there is not aconsistentapplicationof that definition, my concern mounts.
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We must make further progress through price, health promotion initiatives and the steady andconsistentapplicationof effective and reasonable policies.
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Any delay in finding solutions that ensure the fairer and moreconsistentapplicationof measures in this area is unjustifiable in the present economic situation!
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Consistentapplicationof such a principle is, of course, unthinkable.
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It will requireconsistentapplicationover many years.
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Therefore, it is incapable of just orconsistentapplicationand it has, as a matter of fact, been proved to have deleterious effects.
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I would emphasise the need forconsistentapplicationof the third maritime package.
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We are determined to maintain a firm andconsistentapplicationof the policy.
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We take seriously the business of raising standards and promoting theconsistentapplicationof the best evidence.
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It entails the rule of law with universal access andconsistentapplicationof that law.
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This has resulted in some of the legislative provisions being reworded with the aim of ensuring moreconsistentapplication, by using a legal act in the form of a regulation.
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Such an interpretation would be capable ofconsistentapplication, for the rent which the property can fetch in the open market is something you can determine.
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