vital ingredient

collocation in English

meaningsofvitalandingredient

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vital
adjective
uk
/ˈvaɪ.təl/us
/ˈvaɪ.t̬əl/
necessary for the success or continued existence of something; ...
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ingredient
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/us
/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/
a food that is used with other foods in the preparation of a ...
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(Definition ofvitalandingredientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The theory predicted the existence of the "bootstrap" current which is avitalingredientfor present and planned magnetic confinement devices.
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The failure of consociational experiments has been attributed to an absence of thisvitalingredient.
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Effective mixing of the early oceans drastically reduces the required time and is hence avitalingredientin understanding the homochiralization process.
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By impelling the individual into the lap of kinship, the state is denied a ' common value-definition of the individual ' that provides such avitalingredientfor a viable democracy.
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The issue here is whether indeed it is the very precision provided by modern day digital technology that removes avitalingredientin terms of shaping the compositional aesthetic.
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This is avitalingredientof the single market.
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If we lose such shops, we shall lose avitalingredientof the quality of life in rural areas.
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Good industrial relations in the wider sense of the term are avitalingredientin the achievement of satisfactory social progress and industrial prosperity.
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The article did not include thevitalingredientthat that should happen within a strategic planning framework at the local level which is democratically accountable.
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Private patrons also supply anothervitalingredient.
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It is avitalingredientin the doctor-patient relationship.
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But private investment is thevitalingredient.
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Improved road communications are avitalingredientif the inner city programme is to succeed.
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I have a suggestion to make about careers education which is avitalingredientof any strategy for education and training.
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I believe that the use of assumptions in such cases is justified and avitalingredientof the legislation.
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Ultimately, the campaign itself is the mostvitalingredientof democracy.
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It is avitalingredientin democracy.
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Another issue involves research and development, which is avitalingredientin the future of the coal industry.
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The classes are avitalingredientin enabling some scattered communities to retain a reasonable quality of life.
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