distinctive contribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistinctiveandcontribution
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distinctive
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/us/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/
Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from ...
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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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Thedistinctivecontributionof this volume is that it asks us to look at time differently.
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As is often the case in edited collections, while each chapter makes adistinctivecontributionthere are also many common themes and inevitably some overlaps.
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Although this essay often adopts a skeptical stance, the goal is to identify tensions between economics and sociology that might help each discipline'sdistinctivecontribution.
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Underlying both offensive and harmful actions is the agent'sdistinctivecontribution: her physical conduct.
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The book is, as many will know, adistinctivecontributionto the scientific study of religion.
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For example, rather than viewing him as an independent prophetic figure it locates hisdistinctivecontribution ' in his sharp theological interaction with his partners in ecumenical peace-work ' (p. 154).
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It is significant of current thinking that thisdistinctivecontributionto the literature on contraceptive practice has been written jointly by a sociologist and a doctor.
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The mostdistinctivecontributionof soil quality research is an attempt to understand the linkages among management practices and systems, observable soil characteristics, soil processes and soil function6.
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Those teachers who have preferred to avoid singing so far will not easily be able to withstand the next pressure in implementing music's 'distinctivecontribution' to the school curriculum.
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Samson subsequently outlined important developments from linear logic, geometry of interaction and game semantics, which have made adistinctivecontributionto these issues.
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In their exemplary introduction the editors go to a great deal of trouble to review the historiography of property, and highlight thedistinctivecontributionof the volume's essays to this.
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Thedistinctivecontributionof this study is however that music is more than a therapeutic tool, and can be a symbolic and meaningful medium for promoting wellness.
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Watt's mostdistinctivecontributionwas his concern with dynamics.
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Voluntary managers have adistinctivecontributionto make to the schools.
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Their intention to intervene in both public and private sector prices is about their soledistinctivecontribution—as before—on inflation.
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Each must be allowed to make its owndistinctivecontributionthat will strengthen, not weaken, the whole.
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I am disappointed not to have the pleasure of hearing herdistinctivecontributionto the debate.
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Both sectors of higher education—the universities and the colleges—have their owndistinctivecontributionto make.
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Those who have some expertise ordistinctivecontributioncan make their contribution in the preparation of the structure plan.
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