radical solution

collocation in English

meaningsofradicalandsolution

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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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solution
noun
uk
/səˈluː.ʃən/us
/səˈluː.ʃən/
the answer to ...
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(Definition ofradicalandsolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is a fairlyradicalsolution, however, because it makes the actual world no more meaningful for moral evaluation than any possible but non-actual world.
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In the longer run the crown would find aradicalsolutionof a kind, levying much higher taxes and establishing a monopoly of violence.
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The moreradicalsolutionis adopted on occasions, and could without doubt explain the tendency towards segmentation which we observed several times in different contexts.
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Therefore, the grant program cuts in public welfare alone are less likely to lead to aradicalsolution to 'uncontrollable' social security expenditures.
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The onlyradicalsolutionis to cut the ropes tying it to the fake, blowing it to pieces and putting the pieces together, in a new and revealing configuration.
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Simplistic economists have found aradicalsolutionto this problem: just imposing a single currency will radically eliminate internal fluctuations in parities!
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In my view, the time has come to apply aradicalsolutionto a problem which is not only a fiscal but a social one.
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It has become clear to ordinary people that the complicated measures of the past—measures difficult to understand—were not a sufficientlyradicalsolution.
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The mostradicalsolutionwould be the conversion to motorway.
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Does he therefore agree that a far moreradicalsolutionto the problem is necessary than that which he envisages?
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We have to go for theradicalsolution.
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Many of them would be employed by private retailers if the moreradicalsolutionwas to be followed.
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What other moreradicalsolutionhas been suggested?
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This is aradicalsolutionwhich may take twenty years and cost £500 million.
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The concern that underlies this amendment is something that we would want to consider carefully in considering whether this moreradicalsolutionshould be adopted.
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I believe that it will become so grave that we shall need aradicalsolutionto it.
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It rejects the possibility of achieving the mostradicalsolutionto the difficulty of inadequate pensions, especially in relation to purchasing power.
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I wonder whether the imaginative andradicalsolutionthat he outlined—scrapping the common agricultural policy—is the answer that so many of our constituents want hear.
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We are not convinced that the methods which they propose will bring about aradicalsolutionof our problems.
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