main thrust

collocation in English

meanings of mainand thrust

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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thrust
noun
uk /θrʌst/ us /θrʌst/
the main idea, subject, or opinion that is discussed or ...
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Examples of main thrust

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The mainthrust addresses the form and function of a variety of clause types.
Ideologically, the mainthrust is a conscious attempt to redefine the boundaries of state action.
The mainthrust of the work is to show the knower's participation in what is known.
This is the mainthrust of what we presented in the preceding sections.
Its mainthrust has, therefore, been identified, but who exactly are the revisionists?
This of course encapsulates the mainthrust of my critique.
Three different methodologies for spatio-temporal database design are described as the mainthrust of their research.
Throughout, however, the mainthrust of his analysis focuses on conceptual issues, on the complex 'thought-text' of ideology, rather than on objects, institutions, symbols and identities.
There is often some chronological development within and, to a degree, between sections but the mainthrust, and suitably so, is upon themes and their potential interpretation.
Its mainthrust is a message of how we can be saved from our sins and receive eternal life.
The mainthrust of contemporary evolutionary biology has been to place the emphasis on the individual (or more properly still, the gene).
The mainthrust of this article is that an analysis of redistribution in industrialized democracies must emphasize the institutionalized constraints placed on social democratic governments by corporatism.
The mainthrust of this work is to treat the initial convective phase of a fluid heated from below as a statistical initial value problem.
The mainthrust of this work is to establish conditions for which (optimal) sustained economic development is possible in the face of an environmental constraint.
The mainthrust of this paper is to present a framework for the analysis of the tensions which structured the discussion.
However, the mainthrust of the book is on why animal experimentation is justified and here the argument is partial, in both senses of the word.
The mainthrust of the conference was archival, explaining what was available and where, unifying within a single forum sources that are scattered widely across the world.
However, for most of the post-war period, although valued by many amateur naturalists, without formal designation the common remained outside the mainthrust of conservation management.
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