The effects of the electronic media were complex and far from unilinear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy: The Family Business] Reference

But they have not been “passive subjects in a unilinear history of decline.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover to Cover] Reference

Processes of this magnitude are unlikely to proceed in a straight and unilinear fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elias Defended] Reference

He's what the anthropologists call a "unilinear evolutionist" -- traces everything through marriage rites/rights.    From Wordnik.com.  ["One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."] Reference

Thus the conception of a static chain of being became that of a unilinear process of ascent to greater perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

The anatomist and paleon - tologist, Cuvier, denied that living things can be ar - ranged in a unilinear sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

No serious anthropologist takes that unilinear view any more: there's been a lot of water under the bridge since Lewis Henry Morgan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

As zoological evidence accumulated, it be - came hard to accept the progressionists 'view that living things form a single, tidy, unilinear series.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

The course of evolution is not unilinear but multilinear; it runs on many lines which diverge, but all the diverging lines start from the same point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

Serious doubt was thus cast not only on the idea that living things had evolved in a unilinear way, but also on the idea that they had evolved at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

It may seem withal a weighty cause of sort – a fey pause in tall analysis, a “what brought it to this” bleep in unilinear thinking, a weak, spur.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Cannot Imagine Purity] Reference

Morgan's pioneer effort, had cited mountains of evi - dence to show that social evolution was neither uni - versal, unilinear, automatic, or progressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [MARXISM] Reference

We often tend to talk as if scientific progress were unilinear, as if all scientists had one type of mentality in their scientific work, one methodical approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Science] Reference

We accept that the changed geopolitical situation presents us with a set of circumstances that do not make a continuous and unilinear process of change, possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

But, in this similitude, their unilinear arrangement must be disregarded -- of course often they're mixed up in every way, but arrangement in single lines is very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Apart from the assumption of continuous improve - ment (intimately associated with unilinear ideas on progress), three other assumptions commonly underlie the notion of cultural development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The Marxism which has been an influence on contemporary historical scholarship has often been relatively free from the mechanistic, unilinear views of history attributed to Marx after his death.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Kant, Hegel, and Marx insisted in their differ - ent ways on dialectic rather than unilinear change, but at the same time saw each stage subservient to the next, inexorably leading to a predetermined end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

China, they abandoned their efforts to fit China into their unilinear scheme of universal history as they tried to understand what influence it might have upon the world transition from capitalism to socialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

I don't think too many folks these days, even those of us of the Marxish persuasion, believe in some essentialist notion of "progress," with its quasi-religious teleology and its unilinear social-evolutionary implications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

In point of fact, Weber's rationalization thesis can be understood with richer nuance when we approach it as, for lack of better terms, a dialectics of disenchantment and reenchantment rather than as a one-sided, unilinear process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asthmatic] Reference

The conception of progress is based upon historical experience, and not any longer on metaphysical speculation; therefore it is not necessarily cyclical or unilinear; it is a matter of judgment and probabilities like all other phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENLIGHTENMENT] Reference

It will be recalled that, by the law of inertia it takes more energy to move a body at rest or to alter the velocity of a body than it does to maintain speed once gained, for once a body is in uniform unilinear motion it will continue to remain so with only the force necessary to overcome friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference

But it's kind of unilinear in development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Or, instead of a single individual, any number might be supposed, succeeding each other in a unilinear series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

The conventional approach accommodates mainly stages of capitalism (early, late, advanced) and has a unilinear bias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade Observatory] Reference

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology contributes further evidence that whale evolution was not set along a unilinear path.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The notion of a unilinear "higher" and "lower," denounced in his old notebooks as meaningless, was effectively reinstated in cultural terms.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The evolution of aquatic characteristics is traced in almost a straight line, yet our present understanding of whale evolution cannot be crammed into a unilinear progression of types.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

There was an efforts by our opponent to describe a unilinear Israeli undermining of any effort to make peace between Israel and Palestinians to detriment of the region of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator]

Of course, the unilinear cultural evolution model, wherein all societies advance steadily from ape-man to shopping-mall, has gaping holes, as does the magnanimity of the West’s technological “gifts.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

If our biology was still that of Aristotle, if it regarded the series of living beings as unilinear, if it showed us the whole of life evolving towards intelligence and passing, to that end, through sensibility and instinct, we should be right, we, the intelligent beings, in turning back towards the earlier and consequently inferior manifestations of life and in claiming to fit them, without deforming them, into the molds of our understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference