(n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
(n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
(n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.
Example Sentences:
(1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
(4) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(5) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
(6) Cells with a mutation in their social motility system were 5- to 10-fold less cohesive and tended to glide as single cells.
(7) "It causes a great deal of concern and is very problematic for social cohesion when people find they aren't provided with any preference when they are actually in the area they have lived in for a very long time," he told the Sunday Times.
(8) It found some pressure on primary school places and housing similar to the effect of immigration from other countries but "little hard evidence regarding problems with community cohesion".
(9) Japan has chosen social cohesion over the quick-fix cures popular among Anglo-American economists.
(10) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
(11) A factor analysis of the family questionnaire indeed yielded three more evaluative constructs: conflict, cohesion, and disorganization.
(12) Cytologic preparations from patients with OTLMP contained large, cohesive papillary fragments with smooth borders.
(13) Terminase, the DNA packaging enzyme of phage lambda, binds to lambda DNA at a site called cosB, and introduces staggered nicks at an adjacent site, cosN, to generate the cohesive ends of virion lambda DNA molecules.
(14) This study was designed to test the circumplex model of family systems that hypothesizes moderate family cohesion and moderate adaptability to be more functional than either extreme.
(15) The paper ends by citing the advantages Infancy as a developmental period has in providing reference points for the understanding of cohesion within development.
(16) Extensive interdigitation of cytoplasmic extensions and extended villi was present in mucinous and serous clusters which appeared to strengthen cluster cohesiveness.
(17) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
(18) The findings indicate that the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (except the hostile control subscale), the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (open communication subscale only), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales II appear to have sufficient cross-ethnic equivalence for English-speaking Hispanic samples.
(19) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(20) They had also told of a lack of community cohesion and a loss of faith and connectedness to the Catholic church communities.
Collusion
Definition:
(n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
(n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Example Sentences:
(1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(2) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(3) An official report into the police shooting of Mark Duggan says "a perception of collusion" was created by officers sitting together in a room for hours writing up their accounts of the incident.
(4) Sulser said no evidence had been found of the collusion claims but confirmed that Spain's executive committee member Angel Villar Llona and Qatar's Mohamed Bin Hammam and only been contacted by letter and not interviewed in person.
(5) Cages, watchtower and 37 graves: inside an abandoned migrant camp in Malaysia Read more Human rights groups have long accused Thai authorities of collusion in the trafficking industry, but officials have routinely denied the claims.
(6) The argument about academies and free schools is one thing, but this runs much deeper: even if they support what the government is doing to schools, people could be forgiven for expecting consistency, transparency and a model of government whereby ministers might understand that supposedly independent bodies have to be seen to be so, and that even the appearance of collusion can be toxic.
(7) The final stages of the race have been marked by allegations of corruption and collusion that led to a backlash against the British media among some Fifa executives.
(8) He turns up over and over again WikiLeaks published troves of hacked emails last year that damaged Hillary Clinton’s campaign and is suspected of having cooperated with Russia through third parties, according to recent congressional testimony by the former CIA director John Brennan , who also said the adamant denials of collusion by Assange and Russia were disingenuous.
(9) The Liberal Democrats, the only major political party not implicated in charges of collusion with past bribery on arms deals, last night joined anti-corruption campaigners in welcoming the findings: David Howarth, their justice spokesman, said "This is a devastating report."
(10) Lederer, a physician, objects to this application of patient autonomy because it might place the surgeon in legal jeopardy of collusion in suicide and would undermine the principles of nonmaleficence and mutual trust.
(11) Jared Kushner The president’s son-in-law is known to be a person of interest in the FBI investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
(12) But the alliance was pulled apart after regulators and judges rapped its members for collusion.
(13) Liberal and Labor have moved close together on cruelty to refugees to cutting funding to universities and on increasing coal exports, so I am not in the least bit surprised you’ve got this collusion,” she said.
(14) The recording of the chief minister at an Alice Springs Country Liberal party (CLP) branch meeting makes it clear he maintains he has evidence of political collusion between an unnamed senior police officer and a member of his cabinet.” Kelly called on Giles to provide evidence to the police minister if he had any, and to retract his statements in full and apologise if he did not.
(15) The diagnosis is often offered to doctors by patients; and we consider attribution, stigma, collusion between doctor and patient, and abnormal illness behaviour in this context.
(16) The retired master-spy was asked about an interview he had given in March, when he said there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia by the time he left his post on 20 January.
(17) Allegations of collusion resurfaced after anti-fascist protesters told the Guardian they had been "tortured by police" after clashes with Golden Dawn supporters.
(18) Miliband concedes that he does support certain coalition policies – on ID cards, prison policy, and an inquiry into British collusion in the torture of terrorist suspects, although he quickly adds, "I know my brother more than anyone else, and I know he would never sanction torture, implicitly or explicitly."
(19) Losing six children is tragedy enough, but through her own act of collusion in a bungled plot?
(20) Bickford said giving judges rather than cabinet ministers responsibility for authorising sensitive operations would "reduce the risk of perception of collusion … and limit the room for accusations of political interference."