unitary state

collocation in English

meaningsofunitaryandstate

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unitary
adjective
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈjuː.nɪ.ter.i/
of a system of local government in the UK in which official power is given to one organization that deals with all matters in a local area instead of to several organizations that each deal with only a ...
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state
noun
uk
/steɪt/us
/steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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(Definition ofunitaryandstatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunitary state

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Strong executive leadership emerges first from the centralization of political power within aunitarystatestructure.
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The centralist forces of theunitarystatedo not live comfortably with so many rivals.
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This last fact means that fear cannot be aunitarystate, and it is necessary to assume at least two different fear constructs.
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Ironically, 'federal' is preferred by supporters of more integration while their opponents prefer 'ever closer union', which, literally, would eventually mean a centralised,unitarystate.
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Our equation can still describe theunitarystatevector evolution within this region.
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The institutions of theunitarystatealso appear to have failed in moulding the society into a 'unitary' one.
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They started to resent their region's loss of autonomy and the allegedly subordinate position of the anglophone minority in theunitarystate.
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As a result it can over-state the construction of evaluation as aunitarystate-centred practice and miss its contested and complex nature.
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During the foundation of theunitarystate, a division of labour was created that is still more or less in operation today.
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The country has constitutionally remained aunitarystatewhereby all local governments are subordinate to the central government.
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In fact, politicians of aunitarystatehave taken part in a process of carving out the central state into much weaker smaller components.
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In all of these countries, financial regulation is historically grown and strongly embedded in federalist orunitarystatestructures, patterns of state-society relations or legal traditions.
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Institutional features such as the system of majority voting, single party governments and aunitarystatestructure strengthen the government's capacity to act once it has decided to do so.
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Ahidjo looked upon federalism as an unavoidable stage in the establishment of a strongunitarystate, and employed various tactics to achieve this objective.
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In a fullyunitarystate, territorial units (if any) have no constitutional standing, no independently elected territorial legislature, no specific policy purviews reserved to them, and minimal revenue-raising authority.
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If, however, theunitarystateis the rule, then cultural pluralism, that is distinctiveness, cannot be reflected by the legal system as legal pluralism, and becomes the exception.
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In aunitarystate, the furthest flung areas have as strong a claim to efficient public services as anywhere else.
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The inclusion of "federal" is odd because the draft articles plainly describe aunitarystate.
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