unifying principle

collocation in English

meaningsofunifyandprinciple

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unify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈjuː.nə.faɪ/
to bring ...
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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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(Definition ofunifyandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What are the unifying principles of such a class?
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Mythopoeic thought doesn't look for unifying principles behind the diversity of individual events.
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The party's program was based on unifying principles of national interests and ideas of liberal populism.
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Selection may be the unifying principles of perceptual learning at all levels.
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One may therefore regret that there is no apparentunifyingprinciplein the book.
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It may be more fruitful to specify the different forms of knowledge than to seek out someunifyingprinciple across what turn out to be separable knowledge stores.
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While these definitions are related, theunifyingprincipleis that there must have been a risk or stressful experience at some point in the individual's life.
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There is no singleunifyingprinciple.
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Thatunifyingprincipleshould keep us all on the same side.
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Enumerative bibliographies are based on aunifyingprinciplesuch as creator, subject, date, topic or other characteristic.
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Whenever this happens, mathematical theory behind the equations can be viewed as aunifyingprinciplebehind diverse phenomena.
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He posited that the universe was founded on aunifyingprincipleof rhythmic balanced interchange.
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The absence of anyunifyingprincipledrawing together the different heads of economic tort liability has often been remarked upon.
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Lastly, transfeminism shares theunifyingprinciplewith other feminisms that gender is a patriarchal social construct used to oppress women.
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While the dynamic similarity hypothesis may not be a trulyunifyingprincipleof animal gait patterns, it is a remarkably accurate heuristic.
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Non-dualism represented theunifyingprincipleof every object in the universe, and of which humankind was a part.
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Since 1970 it has served as theunifyingprinciplein geology.
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Indeed, the insistence on stable truth and unifying principles accentuates formal considerations in aesthetics.
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