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Synonyms for pluralization

the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to

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With regard to the German case, the pluralization of healthcare-related services and products has equipped users with more choice; nevertheless, it is based on an "inadequate information of potential buyers" (Windeler 2006, 22).
Political Pluralization. Taiwan's political liberalization began in the mid-1980s, when the KMT first permitted formation of opposition parties (1986), including the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), a party whose platform advocated Taiwan independence from China.
In my view, his proposals for the vertical and horizontal pluralization of international criminal law are both problematic.
There is also, however, the problem that people in Turkey, at least until now, have rejected anything but full membership as the target of negotiations, and under these circumstances the support for domestic forces working toward pluralization seems a more important short-term concern than long-term and utopian systemic considerations.
The current pluralization of new actors who are seeking to lay their hands on the foreign policy lever in say, Indonesia, are generating problems for the management of bilateral relations with immediate neighbours Singapore and Malaysia--the stalled defence cooperation agreement and extradition treaty with Singapore, earlier problems over the export of sand and then granite to the Republic, the previous maritime fracas with Malaysia over Ambalat, problems with Malaysia over the treatment of Indonesian migrant workers and nationals, even rival claims over ownership of a favourite old song, are manifestations of a disturbing nationalistic ferment.
This pluralization of security provision received official recognition in England and Wales with the passage of the Private Security Act, 2001, which acknowledged the enhanced presence of commercial organizations in the provision of security, and of the Police Reform Act, 2002, which advocated a mixed economy of policing provision.
But, in a way, this pluralization effect now is located in the media.
Dupont's focus is on the "pluralization" of policing--where public police agencies lose their powers to hybrid and private service providers--and how these different agencies contest each other in struggles involving accumulated social and cultural capital.
They also encourage the pluralization and democratization of authorship, interpretation, revision, and renovation.
At the end of "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Mulvey argues that to "free the look of the camera into its materiality in time and space and the look of the audience into dialectics" can remove any satisfaction gained by the 'male gaze'." (26) Fuses succeeds in doing this through its pluralization of gazes and its hand manipulation of the film.
The symposium was sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Research "Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Era." Socinianism is the most important and most consequential movement in the sixteenth century that grew out of the critique of Catholic dogmatism, especially of the trinitarian speculations and eventually developed into the Enlightenment and gave foundations for the modern times.
For him these realities, whether the Holocaust, the re-creation of Israel, the pluralization of religion, or the development of scientific thought, need to be confronted by theology in a constructive fashion.
However, I would not be supportive of the conservative political character of any future teaching union and its influence on education, but I do stand by the principal of teachers' union rights and the pluralization of educational curriculum and political education in schools to allow pupils the opportunities to nurture their own world view rather than be indoctrinated into an "official" outlook.
In addition to standard methods of pluralization, Dominican Spanish has an alternative plural formation mechanism, normally referred to as the "double plural," in which -(e)se [(e)se] is adjoined to the base, libro > librose 'book-books', mujer > mujerese 'woman-women' (Jimenez Sabater 1976; Nunez-Cedeno 1980; Harris 1980; Terrell 1986; Nunez-Cedeno 2003).