During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

It suffers from a lack of unity of purpose and respect for heroic leadership.

Schweitzer, the pastor's son, grew up in this exceptional environment of religious tolerance, and developed the belief that true Christianity should always work towards a unity of faith and purpose.

Trito-Isaiah is not a unity: the majority of scholars regard it as an anthology of about twelve passages, differing in date and / or purpose, and it may include material from the First Temple period.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

The purpose of CUIC has always been unity ( as reflected in their current slogan, " reconciling the baptized, seeking unity with justice ").

This unity of purpose lies at the heart of the progressive education philosophy.

* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called " malaise " speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as " this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation " but in which he never uses the word malaise.

Generally, the purpose of democratic centralism is " diversity in ideas, unity in action.

The most cursory glance at these articles discloses a unity of purpose, when taken in connection with the history of the times, which cannot fail to have an important bearing on any question of doubt concerning their true meaning.

Duality implies distinctive cultural development while unity implies common purpose and community.

These dimensions are: ( 1 ) a shared, motivating group purpose ; ( 2 ) action, progress and results ; ( 3 ) collective unity or team spirit ; ( 4 ) individual selection and motivation.

Here, Maximus adopted the Platonic model of exitus-reditus ( exit and return ), teaching that humanity was made in the image of God, and the purpose of salvation is to restore us to unity with God.

According to Hogeland, Hamilton had been working towards this moment since the Newburgh Crisis in 1783, where he conceived of using military force to crush popular resistance to direct taxation, for the purpose of promoting national unity and enriching the creditor class at the expense of common taxpayers.

Joseph II's tax reforms and the institution of Katastralgemeinde ( tax districts for the large estates ) served this purpose, and new factory privileges ended guild rights while customs laws aimed at economic unity.

As German unity was considered complete and the areas under Polish administration were ceded to Poland, the monument lost its official active purpose, now only reminding of history.

He believed that this permitted the philosopher to gain insight into the principle by which diversity of meaning is held together as a unity, as he directs his thought toward the origin of things, which is God, and God's purpose for making things, which is found in Christ.

He had a single-minded and unquenchable faith in the unceasing progress and the growing unity of mankind ... He never put himself forward, yet no one had greater tenacity of purpose.

Understanding the artwork was the object and purpose of his teaching, where theory and practice were an inseparable unity.

The objectives of the organization are to guide and enhance the development of Country Music throughout the world ; to demonstrate it as a viable medium to advertisers, consumers and media ; and to provide a unity of purpose for the Country Music industry.

# Some critics of Mormonism claim Mormonism is tritheistic or polytheistic, by the standard of the trinitarianism of the ecumenical and catholic tradition, because it teaches that the " Godhead " is a council of three distinct deities perfectly one in purpose, unity and mission, but nevertheless separate and distinct individuals.

At this conference, there were many differing views and differing methods of attack, but the problems were common ones to all of us and a unity of basic purpose was everywhere evident.

When he was in residence, Vanier would pray twice daily in the chapel that was eventually fit into the palace's second floor and, at a time when the Canadian federation was under threat from separatists factions in Quebec, Vanier delivered numerous speeches, in both French and English, and infused with words praising the co-habitation of Anglophone and Francophone Canadians ; in one of the last orations he gave, he said: " The road of unity is the road of love: love of one's country and faith in its future will give new direction and purpose to our lives, lift us above our domestic quarrels, and unite us in dedication to the common good ...

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

" It spoke of episcopal succession as something that churches that do not have bishops can see " as a sign, though not a guarantee, of the continuity and unity of the Church " and that all churches can see " as a sign of the apostolicity of the life of the whole church ".

Theosophy is a nonsectarian organization based on Buddhist and Hindu teachings, and it promotes the view of the world as an interconnected whole and the unity and brotherhood of humankind " without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color ".

The whole unity comes from the substantial form and the distribution into parts from the matter.

The unity of the whole being is actuated by another really distinct principle, the existence.

The major theme of the letter is the unity and reconciliation of the whole of creation through the agency of the Church and, in particular, its foundation in Christ as part of the will of the Father.

With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops ( Synods ) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy — the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom.

His talent extended beyond the confines of his sculpture to consideration of the setting in which it would be situated ; his ability to synthesise sculpture, painting and architecture into a coherent conceptual and visual whole has been termed by the art historian Irving Lavin the " unity of the visual arts.

In his Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ), he explained, " I sought for a subject, that should give equal room and freedom for description, incident, and impassioned reflections on men, nature, and society, yet supply in itself a natural connection to the parts and unity to the whole.

To these definitions the assent of the Church can never be wanting, on account of the activity of that same Holy Spirit, by which the whole flock of Christ is preserved and progresses in unity of faith.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

Parakramabahu VI in 15th century was the only Sinhalese king during this time who could bring back the unity of the whole island.

Thus the Bahá ' í view promotes the unity of humanity, and that people's vision should be world-embracing and that people should love the whole world rather than just their nation.

Although the tribes were moderately stable political entities, Gaul as a whole tended to be politically divided, there being virtually no unity among the various tribes.

Furthermore, Powell went on, the essence of unity was " that all the parts recognise they would sacrifice themselves to the interests of the whole ".

As a whole, the cathedral presents a unity which even the Neoclassical belltower has failed to mar.

: no less serious attention must be given to the content and unity of the whole of Scripture if the meaning of the sacred texts is to be correctly worked out.

Partitions of unity are useful because they often allow one to extend local constructions to the whole space.

He explained breakdowns of civilizations as a failure of creative power in the creative minority, which henceforth becomes a merely ' dominant ' minority ; that is followed by an answering withdrawal of allegiance and mimesis on the part of the majority ; finally there is a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

" It has been supposed that the right-hand figure was erected by Shapur II and the other afterwards added by Shapur III ; but the unity of the whole sculpture, and its inclusion under a single arch, seem to indicate that it was set up by a single sovereign, and was the fruit of a single conception.

The ecumenical vision comprises both the search for the visible unity of the Church ( Ephesians 4. 3 ) and the ' whole inhabited earth ' ( Matthew 24. 14 ) as the concern of all Christians.

Consequently, Becher's lyrics develop several connotations of " unity " and combine them with " fatherland " (), meaning Germany as a whole.

This method was intended to give the whole piece unity, by having musical material with its own inner coherence scattered amongst musical material that still related to the core material but did not necessarily relate to itself.

To the second eldest and namesake of his father, Lothair II, went the remaining territories to the north of Provence, a kingdom which lacked ethnic or linguistic unity as much as Middle Francia as a whole had.