What is "unitary"

Usage examples of "unitary".

Without underestimating these real and important lines of continuity, however, we think it is important to note that what used to be conflict or competition among several imperialist powers has in important respects been replaced by the idea of a single power that overdetermines them all, structures them in a unitary way, and treats them under one common notion of right that is decidedly postcolonial and postimperialist.

He has no difficulty presuming that Islam is a unitary phenomenon, unlike any other religion or civilization, and thereafter he shows it to be antihuman, incapable of development, self-knowledge, or objectivity, as well as uncreative, unscientific, and authoritarian.

The Rochesterians maintained that nature was dominated by a polarity of life or a unitary intelligence, but they kept the freethinking creed of social responsibility espoused by the original founders of Scientific Pantheism.

Whereas the Hobbesian hypothesis emphasizes the contractual process that gives rise to a new unitary and transcendental supranational power, the Lockean hypothesis focuses on the counterpowers that animate the constitutive process and support the supranational power.

Social subjects are at the same time producers and products of this unitary machine.

Aspects of the unitary phenomenon of the change in cellular properties and connections that occurs in learning can be meaningfully described in any of my proffered languages, but the full understanding of the process demands that we use them all.

They may be invoked to privilege the personal, to protect us from a crassly reductionist biology - at its worst, vulgar sociobiology - but such attempts at privilege merely serve to harden the resolve of biological reductionists, and to encourage the fragmentation of our understanding of what can ultimately only be understood as a unitary world.

Quenya, unlike English, does have a true perfect tense a unitary form of the verb that expresses this meaning, without circumlocutions and extra verbs.

In any case, the groups ny, ly, ry, ty and qu (for cw) must be counted as either long consonants or consonant clusters for the purpose of stress (see below) though it is also clear that sometimes they must be analyzed as single, unitary consonants.

I hoped that the fifth Savior would be that: splitting the bipolarities and emerging as a unitary thing.

Diphthongs: In addition to the "basic", unitary vowel-sounds discussed above (what linguists would call the monophthongs), we have the diphthongs combinations of two basic vowels that are run together into one syllable, in many ways behaving like a unitary vowel for the purpose of word-building: The Quenya diphthongs are ai, au, eu, iu, oi, and ui.

Probably w merged with the g or k preceding it: The combinations gw, kw are evidently best taken as unitary sounds, labialized versions of g and k (that is, g or k pronounced with poised lips look up Lesson One again).

These are just digraphs denoting unitary consonants: ¤ What is spelt hl, hr was originally unvoiced l, r.

Lacking linguistic markers, our present line of investigation relies on attempts to identify the “words” (or lexically unitary parts of speech) by analyzing such traits as time depth and sound diversity, and to categorize them in the Bu”hlerian three-modality functional model (expression, arousal and description).

A Jophur instinctively knows-as most unitary beings do not-that it is possible to blend and mix and match disparate components to make a new composite being.