constant source of
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constant
adjective
uk/ˈkɒn.stənt/us/ˈkɑːn.stənt/
happening a lot or all ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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Despite the enormous gains for the state, the liquor industry provided aconstantsourceof difficulty.
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This was a period of high infant mortality rates, aconstantsourceof concern for contemporaries.
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Managers and safety experts had noticed that some individuals were aconstantsourceof errors and injuries.
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Things like reviewing the salaries of the senior officers were aconstantsourceof friction.
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They represented a reservoir of ideas and principles that he used as aconstantsourceof reference and inspiration.
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Former spatial arrangements based on the socialist ethos of openness, public and harmony had become aconstantsourceof conflict.
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Financial worries were aconstantsourceof anxiety, either because the participants could not afford necessities and one-off payments, or would not have sufficient in a crisis.
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In some applications, one has to deal with the reconstruction of a piecewiseconstantsourceterm in a partial differential equation, which jumps at a material interface.
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I believe it is aconstantsourceof confusion to many people, including taxi drivers.
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This place is aconstantsourceof wonder and amazement to me.
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This question in another aspect has been aconstantsourceof irritation both in the last war and in this war.
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Aconstantsourceof embarrassment to local authorities has been the rating system.
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They have gone further than that; they have been aconstantsourceof embarrassment.
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However, up to that time the topic of having a family was aconstantsourceof conversation.
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The accident rate on the road is much too high and is aconstantsourceof concern in my constituency.
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It will be aconstantsourceof grievance and complaint.
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They certainly exist in my constituency where they are aconstantsourceof worry.
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That is aconstantsourceof reproach and shame to all of us.
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