decisive contribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdecisiveandcontribution
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decisive
adjective
uk/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/us/dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/
able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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(Definition ofdecisiveandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is thus adecisivecontributionto recent scholarly investigation into the historical formation of fundamental modern notions of argument, evidence and objectivity.
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This information is adecisivecontributionfor defining water pricing policies and water savings when water scarcity becomes a leading issue.
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This information is adecisivecontributionfor defining water pricing policies when water scarcity becomes a leading issue.
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Initiating negotiations in the energy sector would make adecisivecontributionto attaining this objective.
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In both cases they made adecisivecontributionto the outcome.
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Now a country with the greatest opportunity of making adecisivecontributionto its solution has given in.
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I thank you most heartily for your attention and for your altogetherdecisivecontributionto the outcome of this project.
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The commitment to a multilateral trade system makes adecisivecontributiontowards security, transparency and the stability of international trade.
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Finally, demographic changes and young people's employment expectations are also areas to which logistics can make adecisivecontribution.
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It is vital that we have much stricter enforcement of sanctions, which will make an important and possiblydecisivecontributionto our objectives.
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It is the information services who must make thedecisivecontributionhere.
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My constituency needs a healthier climate for business activity, and such a measure would make adecisivecontributionto securing that.
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Let us see how far those proposals justify the claim that they constitute adecisivecontributionto peace.
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That agriculture makes a quitedecisivecontributionto the health of the population is undisputed.
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Why, with our considerable financial aid, have we not been able to make a moredecisivecontribution to improving the situation in the poorest countries?
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In that context the use of renewable energy sources is crucial, both to ensure security of supplies in future and to make adecisivecontributionto reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Cohesion policy has made adecisivecontributionto strengthening competitiveness and employment, especially through 'earmarking', and we must make use of everything that has been achieved within this framework.
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All the directives relating to this have made adecisivecontributionin improving the position of women, who make up 52% of our population and thus constitute the majority.
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The existence of public policies in fundamental social areas, in particular universally accessible public services, especially in the areas of health and education, has made adecisivecontribution.
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I am convinced that such links can make adecisivecontributionto achieving the goals that are currently being set, particularly those relating to territorial cohesion.
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