critical moment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcriticalandmoment
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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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moment
noun
uk/ˈməʊ.mənt/us/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofcriticalandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The conclusion phase is acriticalmomentin terms of face wants.
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It thus seems implausible that the 1948 election was a "criticalmoment" that would have significantly altered the parties' relative positions for decades. 132.
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He was a bourgeois thinker undoubtedly - yet had made some fertile innovations at acriticalmomentfor liberal thought.
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Thiscriticalmomentis followed by a longer period of path-dependent dynamic growth, during which the political system continues to slowly and asymptotically realign.
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From thatcriticalmomenttheir demands lost the quality of petition and began to reverberate with calls for change.
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They consider the evictions to represent thecriticalmomentof rupture that transformed a systemically continuous past into an erratic and unpredictable present.
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How many developing countries can point to such a giant at thecriticalmomentof their development?
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A simple test supports the claim that the 1822 veto was thecriticalmomentin this narrative.
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Finally, we question the usefulness of thecriticalmomentconcept for understanding the partisan shift on civil rights.
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This issue is key, for such considerations could prove decisive at acriticalmomentwhen mob violence loomed.
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Nowhere is this confusion more evident than in thecriticalmomentof the 'dissolution' of the family into civil society.
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The conclusion reached by some is that naming may be a "purer" measure of lexical access than lexical decision, providing a more direct assessment of thiscriticalmoment.
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Here, ritual power is employed at a maximum in order to neutralize every terrifying element present during thecriticalmomentof the creation of a new identity.
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This is acriticalmoment.
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An emergency cover of planks was made to replace the hatch but the crew did not know that, at thiscriticalmoment, the ship had sprung a serious leak.
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I suggest that these debates represent acriticalmomentin the history of commercial discourse, when the dilemma between expanding trade and enclosing it reached a head.
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They arrived at acriticalmoment.
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At acriticalmoment, often marked by an emphatic caesura or fermata or a tell-tale hiatus in the texture, minor will yield to major for the remainder of the form.
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However, precisely because they presided over thecriticalmomentof birth, midwives were also subjected to all sorts of slander, including the charge of substituting changelings.
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