But to use the term to mean in effect a unitary state is to abandon reality.
Instead, there would be a unitary state, with Turkish-Cypriots enjoying limited minority rights.
The euro's success so far has suggested that a currency can be stable without the backing of a unitary state.
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Officially, the Bosnian Serbs gave up their quest to join Serbia, and Bosniaks gave up their dream of a unitary state.
This will be crucial to finding a compromise between KNU demands for some kind of autonomy and the military insistence on a unitary state.
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The woman who set out to change the system, he imagines, would have recognised the change from what we knew, a centralised unitary state to a devolved, increasingly federal way of governing, as a means of maintaining her belief in Britain.
Comment: This provision harkens back to traditional Leninist and Stalinist nationalities theory, which envisioned the nationalities as having a narrowly-circumscribed role within a unitary Soviet state.
Mr Chirac's attitude seemed to encapsulate a more general problem that, despite a few gestures towards devolution, French rulers still cling stubbornly to the idea of a single unitary state.
If the Agusta-Dassault trial does not produce clear-cut and comprehensible verdicts within a reasonable period of time, one result is sure to be more calls from Flemish politicians that justice, too, should come under regional control, so leaving still less need for a unitary Belgian state.
Israeli governments have viewed Fatah as a relatively moderate bunch with whom business may at a pinch be done, since it recognises Israel and espouses a two-state solution, whereas they tend to see Hamas as an irredeemable terror group that must be repeatedly clobbered, since it says Israel should be destroyed and a unitary Palestinian state established on the entire territory occupied by Israel.
In the top-down, unitary state they run, they are, in a real sense, responsible for the abhorrent acts committed to enforce their population decrees and laws.
Since Ataturk was a hardline secularist, religion could not be used to bind Turkish subjects in this "unitary state", so language became the all- important glue.
The island remains attached to France by a thin cord woven from three threads aid, terror and the sacred nature of the unitary state.
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