concrete situation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconcreteandsituation
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concrete
adjective
uk/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
clear and certain, or real and existing in a form that can be seen ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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They refer to aconcretesituation: that of sharing money between people.
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There is coordination between how they feel now and how they have felt in the sameconcretesituationand what did help them feel better.
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There always remains, in the midst of any attempt of instrumentalisation, a poetic power of architecture to mediate between an inexhaustible tradition and aconcretesituation.
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It is not the function of a name to refer exhaustively to aconcretesituation, but merely to single out and dwell upon a certain aspect.
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As discussed above, instead of asking directly what language they would use in aconcretesituation, it requested the students to write what they might say in this context.
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We should look at the consequences and at what is likely to happen in aconcretesituationat a particular point in time.
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We face aconcretesituationand must deal with it as practical men and women of affairs.
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This is aconcretesituationwhere selfishness has already won.
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Theconcretesituationis that here are four people badly in need of accommodation, and one individual has the accommodation to let.
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A play expresses a single factor of a situation, of two concrete people in aconcretesituationin a concrete mentality.
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But let us look at theconcretesituationin which we find ourselves.
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And, therefore, this argument just fails to connect with theconcretesituationwith which we are dealing.
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What we want now is to deal with the present situation, which is aconcretesituation—that is what the country is anxious about—and not to discuss general principles.
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Rather, it is the process by which a person may apply the divinely revealed law to theconcretesituationat hand.
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He makes a fundamental distinction between "competence" (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and "performance" (the actual use of language inconcretesituation).
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In the next few sections, we will be concerned with the construction of infinite tensor products in some concrete situations.
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This consistency condition may have to be relaxed in some concrete situations introducing additional perturbation terms in the resulting a posteriori error estimates.
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Two of these verbs can be traced back to very concrete situations, namely consider and contemplate.
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Ideally, this would be achieved by first formulating a given technique "abstractly", and then showing how it applies in concrete situations.
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Meanings of ' old' are communicated in concrete situations using mutually comprehensible linguistic and cultural resources.
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