Afghanistan is far from monolithic.

But even this monolithic system of control is porous.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.