equal significance

collocation in English

meaningsofequalandsignificance

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equal
adjective
uk
/ˈiː.kwəl/
us
/ˈiː.kwəl/
the same in amount, number, ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/
us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofequalandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is argued here that ' top-down' and ' bottom-up' dynamics were ofequalsignificancein the development of the dispute.
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All these voices, arenas and curriculum contexts haveequalsignificanceand can cause a fragmentation of the music education policy process.
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The critical regime is considered in which the circulations due to the centrifugal force and the vertical gravitational instability are ofequalsignificance.
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Ofequalsignificanceis the fact that women are aligned against him at every par t of the administrative and judicial stage.
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Research into the structure of city and landscape showed that nature and buildings had a ratherequalsignificance.
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If the presence of each additional person would make no difference, this seems to deny theequalsignificanceof each person.
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In its place, there is a new guarantee, in the new system ofequalsignificance; but it takes a different form.
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The new clause and the schedule also raise many issues of a different kind, but of nearequalsignificance.
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This was ofequalsignificanceto farmers in making their decisions for the following year.
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I turn to a matter which hasequalsignificance.
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They all accept that they have three fundamentally important tasks ofequalsignificance, the lack of any one of which is enough to ruin them.
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Many of us believe that it is often what is not said that is ofequalsignificance.
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Ofequalsignificanceis the fact that whilst the resolution was passed, we had a majority in the room which either abstained or voted against.
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I understand that the cutbacks concluded in respect of the countries concerned are broadly ofequalsignificancein their impact.
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I think its timing is ofequalsignificance.
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These crises are—not everybody sees it—closely interrelated, and yet they are not all ofequalsignificancein their impact on the region.
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The concession we have had on research today is of almostequalsignificance.
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Some important bodies representing both creators and users of copyright material have already replied, but many others whose responses will be ofequalsignificancehave not yet done so.
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Both haveequalsignificanceto the human psyche; the capacity to appreciate both science and religion simultaneously is a dualistic side-product of human evolution.
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Methodological objections have been made to this course as each allusion may not have anequalsignificance.
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