radical departure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofradicalanddeparture
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radical
adjective
uk/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/
believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or ...
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departure
noun[C]
uk/dɪˈpɑː.tʃər/us/dɪˈpɑːr.tʃɚ/
the fact of a person or vehicle, etc. ...
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This requires aradicaldeparturefrom traditional language teaching practices.
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This was aradicaldeparturefrom the traditional external examinations.
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This is a ratherradicaldeparturefrom a logical viewpoint but is a very natural idea for programming languages.
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Haider presents what seems like aradicaldeparturein his input guided system.
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The approach adopted in this scheme is aradicaldeparturefrom the centralized system traditionally used in schools.
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Acceptable, because only under the influence of such values could an electorate further swallow such aradicaldeparturefrom conventional approaches to social protection.
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Neither form of innovation is regarded as aradicaldepartureby those involved.
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In this period it was a severe public health problem, the scourge of tuberculosis, which potentially drew it to thisradicaldeparture.
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It is clear that the pace of economic growth during the period from 1950 to 1980 constituted aradicaldeparturefrom the colonial past.
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It was aradicaldeparturefrom the colonial past.
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This view represented aradicaldeparturefrom official opposition to the introduction of the plantation system which had been expressed since the 1920s.
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So, while escapism is a departure from the traditional doctrine, it is a lessradicaldeparturethan universalism.
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This will be useful to the student but hardly constitutes theradicaldeparturein urban economic history it is unnecessarily presented as.
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Firstly, in including composing and improvising, it represents aradicaldeparturefrom previous versions of the curriculum which focused on vocal performance and musical literacy.
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Accordingly, those working in this genre are often both artist and musician, a double role that represents aradicaldeparturefrom the artist/musician divide of many other audio-visual genres.
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A wider comparison with various forms of biographical intervention and construction would have helped in assessing the extent that the biographical approach offered is aradicaldeparture.
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The principle of accountability without culpability is aradicaldeparturefrom the governing principle of tort (that without fault, the loss must lie where it falls).
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The mostradicaldepartureis that he argues against a movement-based analysis and instead formulates an analysis in which all elements are base-generated in their positions.
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Moreover, as also argued there, agent orientation does not represent aradicaldeparturefrom current software engineering thinking; instead, legacy software can be relatively easily incorporated in agent software.
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This is aradicaldeparturefrom the old thinking, which has viewed disabled people as objects of charity and pity.
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