deliberate choice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdeliberateandchoice
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deliberate
adjective
uk/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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choice
noun
uk/tʃɔɪs/us/tʃɔɪs/
an act or the possibility ...
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(Definition ofdeliberateandchoicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This was adeliberatechoice.
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Though criticised for it, this paper made thedeliberatechoiceof not using normal forms.
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This is his second partnership and, bydeliberatechoice, they have no children of their own.
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He explains that language planning differs from language development because the former is adeliberatechoice.
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This was adeliberatechoiceaimed at postponing the commitments associated with apprenticeship.
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This is adeliberatechoice.
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It is adeliberatechoice.
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This is not necessarily a matter of ignorance, as the paper seems to suggest, but can be adeliberatechoice.
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This is the result of adeliberatechoiceon the part of the teams carrying out the experiments.
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At that stage they made adeliberatechoice.
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Adeliberatechoicehas been made to avoid that situation.
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There is no doubt that it was adeliberatechoice.
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As this paper hopes to demonstrate, however, this apparent lack of sophistication was not so much an intrinsic flaw as adeliberatechoice.
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His choice was, therefore, an informed anddeliberatechoice, though he was not always able to make it appear as such.
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The sole use of self-repor t indices to measure parent- child relationships might be criticized, but this reflected adeliberatechoicein research design.
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In the specific case of immigration, we posit a link between concern about immigrants and thedeliberatechoiceof a party that promises action to alleviate that concern.
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What they are not entitled to say is that it was a free,deliberatechoice.
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In insurance logic, the only necessity is one ofdeliberatechoice.
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One is talking about adeliberatechoiceof political and of social priorities.
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If confrontation occurs, it will be by thedeliberatechoiceof the authorities concerned.
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But it is not by strange chance; it is bydeliberatechoice.
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A person who has acquired a leasehold property has probably made a conscious anddeliberatechoice.
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We have made adeliberatechoiceof priorities and tried to pursue them consistently.
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I am bound to say that that is thedeliberatechoiceof an ambiguous word.
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