These proposals illustrate the fundamental obstacle to reforming the military: the fact that it isn't really a unitary force, so much as a rivalrous group of them.
Is family really a unitary concept or is it in fact a multi-faceted term that serves as a quick reference for a variety of factors such as generations, values, religion, ethnicity, culture, etc.? In other words, when one uses the term family, one is subsuming a number of factors within that term.
Spain never really was a unitary state, despite Franco's best efforts to make it "España, una, libre, grande".
Monists must defend their claim that there really is a unitary value.
"The environmental community tends to see sugar as one unitary thing, and it isn't really," Mr. Guest said.
This raises the question of whether there is a coherent and unitary psychological conception of what a mind really is.
Striving for a simple, unitary explanation of disease, he conjectured that all diseases are really one a fever brought on by overstimulation of the blood vessels and hence subject to a simple remedy—"depletion" by bloodletting and purges.
The first time we met, in 1997, during the last great anti-Milosevic demonstrations, he took me to an old-fashioned restaurant in central Belgrade and told me he really believed in the original Yugoslavia -- that is, the Serb-dominated unitary kingdom that existed between the two world wars.
3. Consistent with unitary executive theory as well as the formal chain of command, Obama really is in charge and knows exactly what he is doing.
You see, unlike in unitary polities, here in the good ol' US of A you don't really need one, national political party to be an effective national voice, but rather 50 state-level parties.
