organizing principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforganizeandprinciple
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organize
verb[T]
uk/ˈɔː.ɡən.aɪz/us/ˈɔːr.ɡən.aɪz/
to make arrangements for something ...
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principle
noun
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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In other words, there is no center, noorganizingprincipleprivileged over structure and thus able to dominate its structural domain.
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This has all served to illustrate the limited validity of the nation state as the universalorganizingprinciple.
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This attitude provides anorganizingprinciplefor the book while also injecting it with critical urgency.
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Thisorganizingprincipleis the work's great strength, but is also its weakness.
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The basicorganizingprinciplefor my tabulation is that, depending on type, variants fall within a rather broad range according to probability or significance.
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In developmental psycholinguistics it means seeing semantic-pragmatic function as an importantorganizingprinciplefor the child's development of structure.
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To more precisely distinguish frames, we use ' 'chunking' ' as theirorganizingprinciple.
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The weakness of the book, though, is its lack of a theoretical framework or even a rudimentaryorganizingprinciple.
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Anthropologists have given primacy to kinship as anorganizingprinciple, but there are many other ties that bind people together.
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We argue for a clearerorganizingprinciplefor production rules.
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These patients have no hope for the future, no explanatory narrative, no simpleorganizingprinciplearound which to integrate their experience.
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The nation state took over as the general geopoliticalorganizingprincipleduring the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Every time the par ticipant achieves 10 "right" answers in a row, theorganizingprinciplechanges without warning.
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Thus, sustainability will become the centralorganizingprinciplefor environmental management.
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The commonorganizingprinciple, serving as the major link between enterprises, was the budget.
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This time theorganizingprincipleis emphatically not one of variation.
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Every time the participant achieves 10 "right" answers in a row, theorganizingprinciplechanges without warning.
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The biology of human survival uses human responses to environmental extremes as itsorganizingprinciple.
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