And find other ways to encourage the discussion to be against sort of monolithic, single solutions, and more about a multiplicity of things.

It was recognized that States were not monolithic entities and that there was a need to reflect the extent to which federal and local authorities were cognizant of recommendations.

Similarly, the West will have to understand that the Islamic Republic is not a monolithic dictatorship. The regime has multiple coexisting power centers, which influence and limit each other s decisions.

With United Architects, also, we made a proposal for the European Central Bank headquarters that used the same system, but this time in a much more monolithic mass, like a sphere.

Viewpoints that deviate in the slightest from Party doctrine are still absent from Chinese TV. Despite the surface diversity of programming, the monolithic control of political discourse has changed little since the 1950's.

The first component is that when you move away from the constraints of a physical classroom and design content explicitly for an online format, you can break away from, for example, the monolithic one hour lecture.

The District Attorney opposed the application for a change of venue and argued that Miami has a heterogeneous and non monolithic population in which the bias and prejudice which could exist in the community could be diffused.

We really approached it at the level of the typology of the building, where we could build these five separate towers, but they would all join at the 60th floor and make a kind of single monolithic mass.

Related parties from Tencent told the China News Service reporter, It is clear that this time of organization structural adjustment will not involve layoffs. We will make monolithic movement to the business sectors as a whole, and then combine and optimize.

These findings, while running contrary to popular perceptions of Saudi culture, are less startling than they appear. Sociologists of religion have long argued that in a monolithic religious environment, or when religious institutions are closely tied to the state, the overall religiosity of the public declines.

Nothing like this existed in China, where there was one monolithic state covering a fifth of humanity, and anyone with any ambition had to pass one standardized examination, which took three days and was very difficult and involved memorizing vast numbers of characters and very complex Confucian essay writing.

Each mirror, there are four of them, is made of a single piece of glass, a monolithic piece of high tech ceramic, that has been ground down and polished to such accuracy that the only way to understand what that is is to imagine a city like Paris, with all its buildings and the Eiffel Tower, if you grind down Paris to that kind of accuracy, you would be left with bumps that are one millimeter high.

With Vietnam s emergence as a pivotal player in Asia, we are able to view the Vietnam War in the context of the US strategy of global containment, which led it to defend not only South Vietnam, but also South Korea and Taiwan the three fronts, as Mao Zedong put it. Then and now, Vietnam was the locus of a struggle between the vision of a monolithic Asia and that of an Asia that is open internally and to the world.