Sentence examples for modern unitary from inspiring English sources

The location of the modern unitary authority has increased its attractiveness to commerce and industry.

The southern group are in Argyll, an area roughly corresponding with the heartlands of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata and incorporated into the modern unitary council area of Argyll and Bute.

Today the islands are split more or less equally between the modern unitary authorities of Argyll and Bute and North Ayrshire with only Ailsa Craig and Lady Isle in South Ayrshire falling outwith these two council areas.

The BBC Trust is to be replaced with new unitary board.

When the administrative county of Lancashire was created by the Local Government Act 1888, Salford was elevated to become the County Borough of Salford and was, in modern terms, a unitary authority area exempt from the administration of Lancashire County Council.

The smallest geographical unit for which area socioeconomic data are available before 1971 is the local government district, although their average size was substantially smaller than modern districts and unitary authorities.

Modern Lebanon is a unitary multiparty republic with a parliamentary system of government.

In other words, although there may be different sources and mixes of validity evidence for supporting the adequacy and appropriateness of interpretations of scores in different situations, validity is seen a unitary concept in modern validity theory [ 33].

It also adds more uncertainty to a pivotal period in the modern history of the region, with the unitary borders of Iraq and its neighbours under mounting pressure to hold together.

For this study, we defined validity following modern conceptualizations in which validity is a unitary concept with construct validity as a core, deriving validity evidence from several sources such as assessments of content validity, the response process, the internal structure of the instrument, its relationships to other variables and its consequences [ 22, 24].

He is 47, but could pass easily for a man ten years younger.He is confident, he says, that tensions between the country's Dutch-speaking north and its French-speaking south will cease to be as troublesome as they were towards the end of the term of Mr Dehaene, who oversaw much of modern Belgium's great constitutional change from being a unitary state to a federal one.