Sentence examples for indivisible unit from inspiring English sources

This idea — of an Italy splintered into thousands of quasi-independent regions, with the family as the only indivisible unit — is not a new one.

The Second Suite, its themes underpinned by rapid figurations even when the material is at its most expansive, fiercely demands its performers function as an indivisible unit.

Throughout, there's a wonderful sense of Mullova and Il Giardino Armonico functioning as an indivisible unit, while Giovanni Antonini's conducting is exceptional.

The ziti with tomato and basil sauce ($8) is terrific, and even the salad ($7) is made with exquisite care, the olive oil and balsamic vinegar whisked together into an indivisible unit.

While Beatrix Potter's words and pictures compose an indivisible unit, it is equally true that a country may produce a magnificent school of artists (Czechoslovakia's Jǐrí Trnka, Ota Janec̆ek, and others) without developing a literature of matching depth and variety.

Too often, rice is the ignored half of the sushi partnership, taken for granted, but Mr. Takayama's rice was soft and lightly vinegared, each grain independent, yet part of an indivisible unit.

The grandmaternal and grandpaternal members of the chromosome pairs are not indivisible units.

Stevin's proposal required a rejection of the distinction in Euclidean geometry between magnitude, which is continuous, and number, which is a multitude of indivisible units.

Sometimes considered an Atomist for his view that matter is composed of indivisible units, he held that Pythagoras, who stressed the importance of numbers in philosophy, was responsible for the Atomist view of acoustics, in which the sound perceived as a single entity actually consists of discrete sounds.

Bourdieu believed that all social life takes place in a "field" and Becker insists that it takes place within a "world" — an opposition that irresistibly brings to mind Woody Allen's remark that while Democritus called the indivisible units of the universe "atoms" Leibniz called them "monads," and that fortunately the two men never met or there would have been an extremely dull argument.

In keeping with this atomistic view, he also holds that space and time consist of indivisible units, viz., points and instants, respectively.