Sentence examples for monolithic rule from inspiring English sources

Almost immediately he resigned as the head of the Communist Party and fired its leadership, ending nearly 70 years of monolithic rule.

So, in the chapter on competition, he shows how the political structure of western Europe in the early modern era encouraged rivalry both between and within states, while the monolithic rule of the Ming dynasty led China to rest on its laurels.

The results of the present series of experiments are more consistent with the idea that people use a diversity of integration rules than with the assumption that there must be a single, monolithic rule (either the linear or the noisy-OR one) that is systematically adopted in all cases.

Monolithic rules have gradually taken over as the system develops, reflected in institutional and academic drift, where an institution of schooling has a tendency to slowly extend itself, even into the arenas of pre-school and kindergarten, and also into non-formal education as tertiary education expands.

Cracks are starting to appear in Mr Museveni's monolithic 30-year rule as he seeks another five-year term.

That's what happens when the huge monolithic force that rules the sports world, the N.F.L., suddenly departs the scene and leaves us with the existential question, now what do we talk about?

The hardness of the multilayers is approximately 6 GPa greater than that of the monolithic films using a rule of mixtures, whilst there is no significant variation in hardness with layer thickness.

The auto industry's once-monolithic opposition to rules governing vehicles' overall design has shattered in recent months.

Based on the 1985 science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, the movie envisions a future world ruled by a monolithic militaristic government that trains children to fight large insectlike extraterrestrials called Formics or buggers.

Even though they control Congress, Democrats whine it's not possible to rapidly move healthcare reform - or any significant legislation - because of monolithic Republican opposition and arcane Senate rules.

Their superior discipline and unity showed in post-revolutionary polls, where both parties trounced the quarrelsome array of secularists.This is not to say that the Islamists are monolithic, or that they are destined to rule: they lost in Libya's 2012 elections.