(n.) A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
(2) Fed up with parallel universe theories that have little to say about the world they're interested in, students at Manchester University have set up a post-crash economics society with 800 members, demanding an end to monolithic neoclassical courses and the introduction of a pluralist curriculum.
(3) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(4) It was found that all the global-release profiles yielded by the indomethacin-loaded Eudragit RL microspheres conformed to the Higuchi diffusional model of dispersed drug particles in spherical micromatrices and not to the desorption kinetic model of a dissolved drug from a monolithic spherical device.
(5) The last decade has seen dramatic advances in the design of sensor configurations, the marriage of biological systems with modern monolithic silicon and optical technologies, the development of effective electron-exchange systems and the introduction of direct immunosensors.
(6) "We're not interested in being a monolithic entity on the internet.
(7) The findings revealed no monolithic orientation, but showed that the nature of the issue determines which reference group is activated: peers or parents.
(8) As for gay men, Islam's attitude to them is, she says, no worse than that of any of the 'monolithic' faiths.
(9) The cumulative amount of the drug released plotted against the square root of time was linear in the monolithic system.
(10) A monolithic intraocular lens (IOL) design is described, made of with a total diameter of 8.5-9.0 mm.
(11) It’s very hard to see how they [the cuts] can be justified, especially not on the monolithic grounds of saving money for the hard-working consumer, or whatever it is [energy and climate secretary] Amber Rudd keeps saying.
(12) In other words, we’re meant to get diversity and responsiveness courtesy of monoliths.
(13) The monolithic concept bulk of this scientific Anthropocene can crush the subtleties out of both past and future, disregarding the roles of ideology, empire and political economy.
(14) On the basis of this research, the authors recommended that a drug educational programme should not treat drug use as a monolithic concept confined exclusively to legal and medical definitions, but, instead, should treat it in the context of the prevailing attitudes and factors involved.
(15) Starting from microscopic observations on early rabbit embryos and related cryotolerance, we investigated purified actin solutions under similar conditions, and found that sol-gel processing could result in the formation of homogeneous glass, and through drying, give rise to monolithic solids, glasses and composites.
(16) Three metres above us were the bases of these monoliths that were actually sitting there ready simply to be lowered out of their recesses,” he said.
(17) A possible use of konjac gel for sustained release of drugs was examined in a monolithic system containing dibucaine.
(18) When the hijackers boarded the four planes at Boston, Newark and Washington that morning they had been drilled to believe that they were attacking the enemy of a monolithic America.
(19) He faltered only when faced with the monolith of the 1960s extension to the town hall; not even he could find anything nice to say about that.
(20) We’re disrupting this idea that’s been perpetrated by the gun lobby and the media for far too long that you support gun violence legislation at your own political peril.” Third, ARS uses digital to show that groups traditionally thought of as strongly pro-gun – veterans, for example – are not so monolithic in their views.
Unmovable
Definition:
(a.) Immovable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
(2) A crucial difference from Unscom is that all the Unmovic staff will be paid for directly by the UN.
(3) They were unmoved by the fact that copies of the drives were lodged round the globe.
(4) He was unmoved by the cheering in the plenary hall for the agreement, saying: "They are thinking like politicians.
(5) While Cotto seemed unmoved by the several shots that pierced his guard, he was the one who began to slow first.
(6) Brough replied: “Yes I did.” Mal Brough unmoved by calls to resign over Peter Slipper furore Read more Brough had a different response when the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus , asked the same question during parliamentary question time on Wednesday: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” Brough told parliament: “No.” The 60 Minutes exchange is significant because extracts of AFP search warrants that have been read into the parliamentary record suggest the police are investigating whether Brough “counselled and procured” Ashby to access restricted data and disclose extracts, contrary to criminal law.
(7) At the end of the training, the group linked arms in front of the church and began chanting: “Let them stay.” Turnbull and Dutton unmoved by calls to spare 267 asylum seekers from deportation to Nauru Read more The largest crowd appeared to gather at St John’s cathedral in Brisbane, almost filling the church.
(8) The same official had failed to notice Mario Balotelli's lunge high into Alex Song's shin at the Emirates a week earlier but was convinced here despite his linesman being unmoved and Mata the only Chelsea player to celebrate.
(9) Aleppo was divided almost immediately into government- and rebel-controlled areas, along lines that have remained mostly static ever since: a stalemate unmoved by repeated and often ruthless attempts to dislodge the other side.
(10) The Southampton substitute Maya Yoshida appeared to bundle over Alberto Paloschi in the box but the referee, Jonathan Moss, was unmoved.
(11) Unmovic takes 0.8% of this fund to pay its staff and other costs.
(12) Moyes's decision to renew United's interest has so far left Evra unmoved, with the 32-year-old currently of the mind to stay at the club while monitoring the situation as it develops.
(13) It was a crystal-encrusted hand gesture to a fashion industry that remains unmoved by the label's current red carpet ranking.
(14) Untouched by a pleading letter from Vince Cable, the business secretary begging them to " make peace with the public ", the board was certainly unmoved by the Robin Hood and Action Aid anti-tax avoidance protesters outside.
(15) Practice of late in local producing houses has actually been to revive audience-demanded canonical work by employing Australians to rewrite the words, but The Australian is unmoved – singling out my own employer, Melbourne's Malthouse, as an "offender against the art of playwriting" with "ideological bias against text-based plays".
(16) Despite repeated promises to be more open, time after time the London Assembly has hit an unmovable wall when assessing TfL finances.
(17) Petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from UK signed by 95,000 Read more Trump toured the US television studios in unrepentant form, unmoved by the gale of criticism that followed his speech aboard an aircraft carrier on Monday evening.
(18) Between 1955 and 1958 he was minister of finance, then minister of defence, holding this post from 1959 to 1966 – unmoved and unmoveable – while prime ministers succeeded each other: Antonio Segni (1959), Fernando Tambroni (1960), Fanfani (1960-62), Giovanni Leone (1963) and Aldo Moro (1963-66).
(19) Second, when questions about issues are asked in direct relation to voting intentions, the gap between the NHS and other concerns is unmoved.
(20) The blow will be softened, however, by a weekly income of £500,000, comprised of salary, image rights and associated sponsorship, and the challenge of establishing the Beckham brand in a country that has thus far been largely unmoved by the rest of the world's favourite game.