(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.
Disunity
Definition:
(n.) A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Public criticism of Ed Miliband's leadership by senior Labour figures is creating an impression of "toxic disunity" and risks handing the next election to the Tories, according to party grandee Dame Tessa Jowell .
(2) The disunity in Palmer’s party has only complicated the government’s task in finding the votes it needs.
(3) The attorney general, George Brandis , said he was sure the Liberals could put the disunity behind them.
(4) However, the lack of any questioning of the European commission’s position on the timeline surprised Brussels veterans, wearily used to displays of EU disunity.
(5) I very much regret that they do not not seem to care about creating an appearance of disunity which does damage to the party.
(6) The commisssion warned the candidates and their teams to "strictly avoid applying discriminatory languages and tribal, racial, linguistic, regional, and religious prejudices which cause … disunity among the Afghan people".
(7) Now though, after years of disunity and faltering advances, its influence has shrunk to a section of central Syria and the southern border with Jordan.
(8) Every single time there is a Ukip conference it finishes with a story of disunity and it is all being caused by one person.
(9) As was the way in the late 60s, they had developed a lot of radical ideas – “about disunity and provocation and abandoned strands of urban theory” – but never really had the opportunity to put them into practice.
(10) And, in a sign of further disunity in the ranks, Saam Idriss, a key leader of the opposition's military wing, the Free Syria Army, said he refused to recognise the appointment last week of an interim prime minister.
(11) But the campaign, pitting Labour cabinet members against one another, deepened the wound of disunity.
(12) Calls for unity are meaningless without first spelling out on what basis people should unite and working out where the disunity came from in the first place.
(13) The government is well advised to limit his exposure.” He added: “His purpose is not to engage with the Muslim community [but to engage in] politics and disunity.” The ALA wants to contest the next federal election, largely on an anti-Islamic platform that includes a moratorium on immigration from Muslim nations, and a ban on face coverings such as the burqa and niqab.
(14) Obama's re-election team, based in Chicago, watched with glee, hopeful that the disunity on display and a protracted, energy-sapping campaign will work to their advantage.
(15) After years of disunity and faltering advances, its influence and territory has shrunk, while Islamist groups have grown.
(16) The G20 summit brings together the world’s biggest economies, representing 85% of global gross domestic product (GDP), and Merkel’s chosen agenda looks likely to maximise American isolation while attempting to minimise disunity amongst others.
(17) Set aside the merits of the issue and just consider this as a case study in political management: disunity, people opining all over the shop, people leaking against colleagues – overlay knights and dames = bad week.
(18) Without it, the short-term economic collapse might be worse, but its continuation only emphasises the disunity lying behind the apparent success of short-term bailouts.
(19) Trump scorned the party’s disunity, telling CBS in an interview broadcast on Sunday congressional Republicans were “terrible negotiators”.
(20) The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, hit out at disunity within Labour, blaming both sitting MPs and Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson, who criticised the party’s approach to Brexit.