unifying theme
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunifyandtheme
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unify
verb[T]
uk/ˈjuː.nɪ.faɪ/us/ˈjuː.nə.faɪ/
to bring ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk/θiːm/us/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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(Definition ofunifyandthemefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunifying theme
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In a sense, his scope is complete, but with little sense of aunifyingtheme.
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The clear focus on abiotic stresses provides aunifyingthemethat creates a sense of integration.
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Like the promoters which are theunifyingtheme, each classification includes elements of varying importance.
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Most collections of essays struggle to find aunifyingtheme.
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Theunifyingthemein all of this research is that the organizational population is the unit of analysis, and that population dynamics have important effects on firm structure and behavior.
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The book differs from most multi-author books based on aunifyingthemein that each chapter is centred around four or five landmark papers in the field.
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Aunifyingthemethroughout this paper is that morpho-accentual processes are grammar-dependent in the sense that the changes they instantiate depend on the larger constraint system governing accent.
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Consciousness crops up in virtually every chapter and is the mostunifyingthemehere - to the extent that it should really be mentioned in a subtitle.
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Duff comes to practical indifference as theunifyingthemeof culpable agency by a curious logic.
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Aunifyingthemeis the idea that word-learning is not a unitary phenomenon at all, but rather a dynamic set of processes involving a multitude of disparate abilities.
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Aunifyingthemeis that emigrants tended to be labourers who had capital (such as land to sell).
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As aunifyingtheme, we developed an underlying philosophical goal of assisting science majors from different scientific backgrounds to communicate effectively across disciplines.
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The opening chapter discusses each contribution but does not attempt to find aunifyingthemefor all of the papers.
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I sincerely hope that the debate'sunifyingthemeis one of taking equal opportunities very seriously.
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It is theunifyingthemein a comprehensive piece of legislation that blends fairness with firmness.
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It has no singleunifyingtheme.
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Each exhibition has aunifyingthemewhich is treated in different ways in the various national pavilions.
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Aunifyingthemeis common for larger events.
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Hard, chilly repetition has served as the loneunifyingthemethroughout 15 years of experiments.
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