Afghanistan is far from monolithic.

Imagine a coil. For those of you that are engineers, there's a capacitor attached to it too.

But even this monolithic system of control is porous.

The brown color of ceramic is sometimes based on manganese compounds.

Fortunately, Chinese thinking on North Korea nowadays is no longer monolithic.

The first pottery appeared in 5200 BCE when the Comb Ceramic culture was introduced.

The ceramic package was more expensive, but it dissipated heat more effectively than plastic.

Aluminium fluorosilicate (Al2(SiF6)3) is used in the production of synthetic gemstones, glass and ceramic.

(e) Developing new materials and advanced technologies for their production, including foam aluminium and new ceramic materials.

Similarly, the West will have to understand that the Islamic Republic is not a monolithic dictatorship.

The imposition of a monolithic religious discourse on society has made liberal values attractive to Iranians.

He also introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís which used waste ceramic pieces.

Despite the surface diversity of programming, the monolithic control of political discourse has changed little since the 1950's.

The use of modern sewage systems began in 1884, with the installation of the first brick and ceramic sewer in Kanda, Tokyo.

And there on the smaller scale, the scale of an earring or a ceramic pot or a musical instrument, was a materiality and a soulfulness.

Aluminium phosphate (AlPO4) is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramic, pulp and paper products, cosmetics, paints and varnishes and in making dental cement.

The largest monolithic mirror in use are currently the two primary mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope, each with a diameter of 8.4 meters.

While this issue is the subject of some debate, many scholars contend that the Moche were not politically organized as a monolithic empire or state.

I was a ceramic designer for about 10 years, and just loved utilitarian form simple things that we use every day, little compositions of color and surface on form.

There does not appear to be any alarmingly maximalist, monolithic position, embraced by the entire government and Communist Party, on which China is determined to steam ahead.

Only by transforming Saudi Arabia s currently monolithic Saudi Wahhabi national identity into a more inclusive one will the Kingdom become a model that is attractive to its minorities.

Sociologists of religion have long argued that in a monolithic religious environment, or when religious institutions are closely tied to the state, the overall religiosity of the public declines.

On 21 December 2005, X.Org released X11R6.9, the monolithic source tree for legacy users, and X11R7.0, the same source code separated into independent modules, each maintainable in separate projects.

It was recognized that States were not monolithic entities and that there was a need to reflect the extent to which federal and local authorities were cognizant of recommendations.

Then and now, Vietnam was the locus of a struggle between the vision of a monolithic Asia and that of an Asia that is open internally and to the world.

With United Architects, also, we made a proposal for the European Central Bank headquarters that used the same system, but this time in a much more monolithic mass, like a sphere.

The story it presents is of a world beset by real injustices, for which the only solution is violent action that will supposedly lead to the victory of a monolithic Muslim world.

This makes modular designed systems, if built correctly, far more reusable than a traditional monolithic design, since all (or many) of these modules may then be reused (without change) in other projects.

The definition of archaeological cultures and their relationship to past people has become less clear in some cases, what was believed to be a monolithic culture is shown by further study to be discrete societies.

As the uprising against the Syrian government devolved into civil war, Jaber says her commute to work outside Damascus became nearly impossible. Then the university where she worked along with her husband, a ceramic artist, came under attack.

The prototype SID and some very early production models featured a ceramic dual in line package, but unlike the VIC II, these are extremely rare as the SID was encased in plastic when production started in early 1982.

The first component is that when you move away from the constraints of a physical classroom and design content explicitly for an online format, you can break away from, for example, the monolithic one hour lecture.

Indeed, contrary to popular belief outside China, the Chinese state is not monolithic it is a highly complex bureaucracy with many layers of government and quasi government institutions that do not always conform to central directives.

UNIDO's projects in this field are exemplified by the assistance being given to the hand tool, ceramic and glass industries in India by introducing energy efficient technologies and processes, undertaking energy audits, improving quality standards and establishing market linkages.

We really approached it at the level of the typology of the building, where we could build these five separate towers, but they would all join at the 60th floor and make a kind of single monolithic mass.

Seven pieces gave an age range of c. 2000 2500 BC, while two ceramic sherds of non diagnostic typology one from Hellenikon and one from Ligourio dated by TL and OSL gave concordant ages of 3000 250 BC and 660 200 BC respectively.

The lawyers' request was, however, rejected. The District Attorney opposed the application for a change of venue and argued that Miami has a heterogeneous and non monolithic population in which the bias and prejudice which could exist in the community could be diffused.

Bits of ceramic pots, arrowheads, and parts of a pre Columbian grave, a 16 century dagger, a chimney from 1908, a collection of bottles, wagons and buckets for mixing concrete dating from the time when the Canal was built, were found both in the Pacific and Atlantic areas.

Along the way, I found that I was no longer in search of an example in literature, in historiography a figure to help come to terms with the death of Aaron Swartz. I had my example had it as an experience, the unexpected experience of open access to a scholarly archive that had till then been locked away from the public behind the monolithic gates of one institution or another.