What is "cohesive"

Usage examples of "cohesive".

It was not, Chernock thought grimly, the most cohesive command team imaginable.

Second, the Bush administration remained captive to the old geopolitical thinking of the 1980s, which assumed that a strong, cohesive Iraqi state was necessary to balance Iran.

Saddam for them, if left to their own devices, and this would deliver what the United States wanted--a cohesive Iraq without Saddam--at no additional cost.

In particular, during the summer of 1991, Langley had reached out to an Iraqi exile named Ahmed Chalabi, a former banker, to serve as the coordinator of an effort to create a more cohesive and effective external opposition under a single umbrella organization.

Committee--that Chalabi set aside his dominating role and instead become part of a collective leadership that the administration hoped would meld the opposition into a more cohesive whole.

During the intifadah, very few Guards defected to the rebels, and it was because the Guard remained cohesive and loyal that Saddam was able to defeat the revolts.

However, the Special Republican Guard, the Republican Guard, and a handful of regular army divisions remained both loyal and cohesive enough after the debacle of Desert Storm to suppress both of the revolts.

I think well have drawn together into that cohesive four-sided unit that the Book of Skulls calls a Receptacle: that is, a group of candidates.

In the case of friction between two solid bodies, this may go so far that particles of matter are completely detached from the cohesive whole.

Despite the situation, it seemed impossible to become politically cohesive and prepare as one planet for the invasion.

It was left in charge of a line of kingsthe most cohesive form of authority at that timeand of them, the revered Arthur pen Dragon.

The creation of the Palace User Group was a clear sign of the overall need among Palatians to have a more centralized and cohesive group in which to communicate and feel a sense of belonging.

It is an ongoing struggle to find and maintain identity, However, when identity appears in the cohesive properties of the Nazi biomedical vision, the answer to the question diminishes, if not altogether represses, the underlying fragmentation anxiety of each individual member of the group.

Thousands of camels, horses, and goats milled around, as men racing back and forth on camelback herded them into cohesive groups.

Second, the Bush administration remained captive to the old geopolitical thinking of the 1980s, which assumed that a strong, cohesive Iraqi state was necessary to balance Iran.