The world of Islam is not monolithic though its domain is vast.

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Bachelet's cooperation with the center right government and Chile's crucial role in promoting Guatemala's seat on the UN SC show once more that the left is not monolithic in Latin America.

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They are not monolithic.

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Yet current casting is not so monolithic, and it varies from cable to network, from sick-joke satire to earnest heart-tugger.

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See, the oil and gas business in North America is not some monolithic, juggernautish exercise in capitalism but rather a highly competitive market where inefficiencies, and therefore, opportunities, still abound.

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In truth, Europe's south is not a monolithic block.

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Women are not some monolithic bloc.

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Ethnic communities that are based on shopping are, of course, not nearly so monolithic as ones rooted in language and neighbourhood.

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Adelphia is being sold not as one monolithic company, but in seven different pieces, each representing a different geographic chunk of its business.

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There are reasons for this, principal among them the fact that the Tea Party is not and has never been monolithic.

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The truth of the matter is that the U.S. military did not take the threat posed by chemical weapons seriously enough when it was an acknowledged danger from a monolithic and unremittingly hostile adversary like the Soviet Union.

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