(1) The process of defining oneself is relative, necessarily weaving the threads of the past and the present as well as the self and non-self into a unitary cloth.(2) Excluding Scotland, with its devalued Parliament, the British system of government is unitary , with sovereignty concentrated in Parliament.(3) It should be emphasised that the paper supported a u2018resolution of the Aceh conflict within the framework of the unitary state of Indonesia.u2019(4) You have a central unitary state now where power is all located in the capital, and that power must be shared over time.(5) u2018A cyborg body,u2019 she insists, u2018is not innocent; it was not born in a garden; it does not seek unitary identityu2019.(6) Their joint submission, hammered out in meetings between leaders of the council, would see Craven merge with Harrogate and other districts combine to create larger districts able to take on a unitary role.(7) One reason that it is difficult for people in England to come to terms with how history is seen in Northern Ireland is that the English have for so long been accustomed to a unitary account of their own conflicts.(8) Social support was not a unitary construct exerting a uniformly positive effect on outcomes.(9) A homogenising and unitary use of the culture concept by anthropologists was in some measure a product of their self-representation in the political context of universities at the time.(10) Asked to comment on the government's condition for the dialog, Tiba said there was no need for the sides to talk at all if the meeting was held strictly within the framework of a unitary state which included Aceh.(11) This perverse incentive can lead to lower levels of interethnic trust and a higher incidence of violence over time, which would not necessarily be the case in a unitary system.(12) Not so very different, after all, from the fundamentalists back home who are forever devising Procrustean means to arrive at unitary cultural identities.(13) In its dealings with Latin America, the US was never as coherent, unitary and rational an actor as was often portrayed from the South, but the pluralism of the US has become much more pronounced in recent years.(14) Personalities are not unitary , folks, and you don't know the whole of a person based on one album, no matter how confessional it may seem.(15) It is likely that alcohol abuse is not a unitary concept, and that different instruments measure different aspects of alcohol abuse.(16) It assumes that all colonists had a unitary concept of idiocy.