widespread agreement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwidespreadandagreement
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widespread
adjective
uk/ˌwaɪdˈspred/us/ˌwaɪdˈspred/
existing or happening in many places and/or among ...
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agreement
noun
uk/əˈɡriː.mənt/us/əˈɡriː.mənt/
the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or ...
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Equally, there iswidespreadagreementthat preferential arrangements have been quite influential, exerting a substantial impact on the global trading system.
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There is nowwidespreadagreementby governments and supra-governmental bodies throughout the developed world that we need a flexible workforce, capable of learning and adaptation.
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Let us grant thatwidespreadagreementexists among us as to which surfaces are red, although there will be disagreement about borderline cases.
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Now that scholars have reached suchwidespreadagreement, at least on these three broad dimensions, the time is ripe for a fresh approach.
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There is awidespreadagreementthat the gap between the different village strata, between the high and low castes, has narrowed.
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We foundwidespreadagreementthat the issues of giving support to children and receiving support in old age are - and should be - separate.
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First, the approach implies that there iswidespreadagreementon the principles or characteristics that define a democracy.
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By and large, there seems to bewidespreadagreementon three issues and some serious disagreement on a fourth one.
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There is nowwidespreadagreementthat reading disability in children of normal intelligence who have had adequate opportunity for reading instruction is language-based.
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They do this by relying onwidespreadagreementamong us.
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For this reason, any plausible criterial account must, as (1) does, commandwidespreadagreementamong both philosophers and laypersons.
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There waswidespreadagreementthat congressional districts would be too large to define distinct interests for represen6.
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This is perhaps understandable, for whilst the nature and pursuit of the national interest might be furiously contested, certain issues attractedwidespreadagreement.
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There is, firstly,widespreadagreementthat the community must institute a right to work in the sense of a right not to suffer long-term involuntary unemployment.
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Simply dividing men into supporters and opponents of women's rights conceals thewidespreadagreementon this point.
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There iswidespreadagreementon this point.
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There iswidespreadagreementin the literature that the upsurge of radical rightwing activities has to be seen in the context of a combination of global and domestic structural change.
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These points will meet withwidespreadagreement.
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There waswidespreadagreementamongst these ' inventors ' of tradition that ceremony encouraged social cohesion among the poorer classes, but that the upper classes were impervious to it.
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