critical issue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcriticalandissue
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critical
adjective
uk/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
saying that someone or something is bad ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪʃ.uː/us/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofcriticalandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is acriticalissue, since no such set of constructs has yet been identified.
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Independence is acriticalissuefor many older adults as they age and face health-related challenges such as falls, sensory impairment, immobility, and isolation.
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Finally, the methodological foundations panel addressed perhaps the most immediatelycriticalissueof how to set about the development of multi-agent systems.
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This is acriticalissue, based on previous research that has documented substantial subsample differences in severity for questions dealing with psychological distress.
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This is acriticalissuefor developing countries where millions of subsistence or resource-poor farmers depend on farm-saved seed.
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But thecriticalissueis not the truth value of the conditional statement, but the truth value of its consequent.
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How the contribution of carers is to be recognised in society remains acriticalissuefor the social policy agenda.
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Thecriticalissuewas whether our psychophysical procedure is able to discriminate patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder or not.
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Anothercriticalissueis that of splitting or unifying objects.
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How this music came into being and circulated is acriticalissue.
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Perhaps the mostcriticalissueidentified to date is the need for taxometric hypotheses to be tested in studies that are carefully and prospectively planned.
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Thecriticalissueof strategic learning is either left completely open or marginally addressed.
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But thecriticalissueis the quality of the best parish registers and not that of the average.
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We expect this to become acriticalissuein the near future for cognitive science as well.
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Acriticalissuetherefore is determining for each model the class of problems it can solve best.
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Acriticalissueis how to define appropriate outcome measures.
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Even if this is so, there is onecriticalissuethat should be faced.
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In this case the nature of the labor supply is thecriticalissue.
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