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disjuncture

noun

A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.

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It also now dislikes things, such as high-speed rail lines and business-like reform to the NHS, that it recently supported.The disjuncture partly reflects its growth.

The contrast between the two events, embarrassing to reformers in the arch-conservative kingdom, reflected a wider disjuncture (even though the king, a few days later, granted clemency to the errant driver).

Besides the smothering impact of the expenses affair, that disjuncture may reflect a widespread conviction that government is essentially managerial; that the choice is between people rather than ideologies.

The Economist Intelligence Unit, part of the firm that publishes The Economist, ranks South Africa as the 28th least risky of 60 that it studies, with less risk than, say, Russia, Turkey or India.Mr Mbeki says there is a serious "disjuncture between the political and the business leadership in our country".

The disjuncture between economic growth and stock performance is also much less of a mystery once policy is added to the equation.

Still, the reasons for the disjuncture between principle and policy are not hard to fathom.

The most famous (and hotly debated) case of this disjuncture was found among the Trobriand islanders of Melanesia, who had been studied by the eminent anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski at the beginning of the 20th century.

Or does it indicate a radical disjuncture between what was said and what was written as the year 6000 approached?

When a disjuncture occurs in our humdrum daily lives, of violence, cruelty or injustice, the observers naturally want to make sense of it.

The song embraces the same irony — the disjuncture between the individual's experience and the machinery of modern war — as the later novel.

But a formal impulse overqualifies "Disjuncture" for discursive purposes.

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