While Jackson and his successors framed economic policy as a matter of limited-government principle, Howe argues that the practical difference was that the Whigs sought to create a coherent national transportation system, while Jackson preferred to dole out projects on an ad-hoc basis to individual states.

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Mr Winsor replied that the system was coherent and rational - but government was failing to play its part.

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Universities Minister David Willetts also backed the need for a more coherent approach to the clearing system.

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States need to create and support a system that is coherent from the definition of the standards to the assessments in place to measure competency on an as-needed basis and from the ability to reorganize staffing to the integrated student information and learning management systems built around this approach.

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The EU's piecemeal regulation perhaps inevitable given its more fragmented system is less coherent.

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The danger to the regime, therefore, is not that all of the inchoate anti-Putin forces will engage in a temporary alliance of convenience (such a group will prove almost impossible to manage) but that a single group will present a coherent, specific, and structured alternative to the current system that is embraced by a plurality of the population.

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So far, the clearest expression of a coherent BRIC agenda for reform of the international financial system and more domestic stimulus programmes came on the eve of a G20 meeting in 2008.

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No one believes that the articulation of a coherent design philosophy is best handled by a sprawling, leaderless organizational system.

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