This homogenising is bad enough, but the Guardian's production goes a step further.

The homogenising, unifying effect of this invocation is what produces the mythical - but more importantly reactionary and invariably exclusionary - notion of "the people" that is so central to the populist gesture.

There is, she said, "a whole camp of us" opposed to this "horrible homogenizing."

It is very clear and there is no blending or homogenizing of the sound."

"Feeding a Yen" is the most gracious indictment of the homogenizing of American culture you'll ever read.

"In a way, I agreed with them that there has been a homogenizing of culture in this country and that like so many of us, they could lose their uniqueness," said Mrs. Germanove, a nurse.

The city council spoke of the savings in fire and police protection, but to Gordon it seemed one more step in the steady homogenizing, the Losangelization of what had before been pleasant and charming distinctions.

Mastery of Confucian texts provided the primary criterion for entry into the imperial bureaucracy, but even those degree-holders who did not enter the bureaucracy or who left it held increased social influence in their home areas, contributing to the homogenizing of Han Chinese culture.

In this attempt to homogenise the audience, the display stakes a grand claim for the images displayed.

He says that its executives parachuted in from New York and wanted to homogenise the reporting.

Random gain-and-loss of variants through such jumping mechanisms can eventually homogenise a family in all individuals.

The space inside the wire array was filled by polystyrene, which helps homogenise the X-ray flux.

The big companies who are responsible for those dismissals did not need any vote in the European Parliament to homogenise their attitude in this area.

Hindutva, he argues, has through religion worked to homogenise Tamil society with that of northern India.

By creating a single reporting system, this proposal should allow Member States to homogenise the reporting requirements for all micro-entities and make them more consistent.

We harmonise, we homogenise, we regulate, we legislate.

This is to be done by the construction of successively more powerful bombs, ultimately resulting in the rather improbable 'U-bomb' that will homogenise the whole universe.

As Johnston (2007) argues, Parades are an expression of collectivities which may homogenise the experience whilst excluding those who don't conform the expected norms.

Ironically, this insistence on 'greatness' tends to homogenise the artist's production and denies the very multiplicity of reception which Bachert's research establishes.

Mr President, the report wants Parliament to give its support to the Commission's Internal Market Strategy, which seeks to homogenise the various national markets.

Alternatively a ground or opal glass diffuser can be used to homogenise the light source, although a significant amount of light will be scattered away from the sample.

The city that had begun to homogenise itself with pizzerias and pseudo pubs to keep its tourists happy is now almost unconsciously restoring elements of its "Czechness".

However, despite this, I believe that this directive is guilty of wanting to homogenise all of us and I believe that is contrary to the idea of cultural diversity.

Every festering little conflict on the planet had its overseas fanclub, ex-pats or second-generation romantics trying to buy a sense of their own fading ethnicity as the world threatened to homogenise around them.

It therefore seems essential to make a genuine effort to homogenise the rules of the internal market and, at the same time, work energetically to unify the principles applied on a global level with regard to electronic commerce.

The Portuguese initially attempted to abolish caste distinctions among the local converts and homogenise them into a single entity, but soon found this to be an impossible task and were consequently forced to recognise them.

Another reason why this strategy is good is because the Danube links the old Member States and the new Member States, and this provides inspiration for us to homogenise these regions and lead them towards development.

This steel is sent to a smith who breaks it down to small pieces and layers the steel according to carbon content, they smelt this in their forge and repeatedly fold the steel in order to homogenise it.

We should reach a point where no longer do we try to homogenise everything into one single shape or size but understand that, by giving dignity to that difference, we can actually create a better, more colourful and, certainly, more vibrant European Union for the future.

After trends were adjusted in urban weather stations around the world to match rural stations in their regions, in an effort to homogenise the temperature record, in 42 percent of cases, cities were getting cooler relative to their surroundings rather than warmer.

Donald Stephens waged an aggressive campaign to replace the term "Dusun" by "Kadazan" and this was strongly opposed by GS Sundang who suggested that it was not appropriate to homogenise all Natives in North Borneo as "Kadazan".

What we are concerned with here is the desire to establish a single area and to homogenise these legal areas in the EU style, nipping and tucking in the interests of a better fit and in such a way as to obtain one common criminal law and one common judicial area.

Which is not to say that it has been homogenized.

The things people do or see are becoming homogenized too.

Space has been homogenized, and we are the worse for it.

Once you move West, things become either homogenized or segregated.

Data homogenized this way does not have the quality you may expect and should be used with much care.

"The point here is not to homogenize these two publications," she said.

The unfortunate trend in this country is to homogenize things.

But what's going on is that they want to homogenize, purify the society.

That television is homogenizing American speech turns out to be a myth.

That is why we will be here a century from now while other races are homogenized out of existence.

Similarly, merchandise throughout the park became homogenized at this point as well.

The process begins with homogenizing the milk that will be used for the cheese.

The animal could not adapt to a changing (and homogenizing) world.

Or will it lead to a time when little is available in bookstores but homogenized best sellers?

"It's so homogenized that there's no choice out there for consumers.

The early decades are homogenized, the later ones ignored.

There are concerns that new development will homogenize the character of the district and squeeze out the poor.

The pressure to homogenize is greater than ever, so that movies can appeal to the largest number of people possible.

Globalization may be harmful, too, because it homogenizes the world's cultures.

At the same time, the executives did not want to homogenize away the qualities that made the series beloved.

This is so despite Government policy to homogenize the population and to eradicate such ethnic differences.

But where current music is bound to evolve, it doesn't have to homogenize.

None of the studies indicate whether milk consumed by participants was homogenized or not.

This homogenizes the social group and reinforces widely held cultural norms.

"If you're going to homogenize it, you make it no good."