The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.

Human sacrifice may be a ritual practised in a stable society, and may even be conductive to enhance societal bonds ( see Sociology of religion ), both by creating a bond unifying the sacrificing community, and in combining human sacrifice and capital punishment, by removing individuals that have a negative effect on societal stability ( criminals, religious heretics, foreign slaves or prisoners of war ).

The unifying effect was particularly true of the " radical period "" of the French Third Republic which fought regionalisms ( including regional languages ), supported anti-clericalism and a strict separation of church from state ( including education ) and actively promoted national identity, thus converting ( as the historian Eugen Weber has put it ) a " country of peasants into a nation of Frenchmen ".

He also said that while he supported English as the common and unifying language of the United States, he believed that any attempt to make English that " official " national language would have a discriminatory effect against bilingual programs.

Today, the effect is of powerful and unifying streetscapes of marble, cast-iron, limestone, brick, and terracotta facades.

The progressive 24 fps DVD will have a unifying effect on PAL and NTSC, just as film does, perhaps requiring conversion of the number of lines but without a conflict between field and frame rate.

The 1986 organic law unifying the separate uniformed and plainclothes branches of the national police was a major reform that required a considerable period of time to be brought into full effect.

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

Other proposed goals of philosophy include " discover the absolutely fundamental reason of everything it investigates ", " making explicit the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs ", and unifying and transcending the insights given by science and religion.

The Bajoran religion, also called the Way of the Prophets, is a major unifying force on the planet.

Durkheim, whose work Gökalp himself translated into Turkish, perceived religion as a means of unifying a population socially, and even " religion as society's worship of itself ".

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

From this standpoint he argued against a purely psychological type of religion ( agnosticisme religieux ; as he termed it )-- a tendency to which he saw even in A Sabatier and the symbolofidéisme of the Paris School — as giving up a real and unifying faith.

In contrast, individuals predisposed to having a sick-souled religion are unable to ignore evil and suffering, and need a unifying experience, religious or otherwise, to reconcile good and evil.

Though the new-born country had unifying elements, such as the Catholic religion, a French-speaking bourgeoisie and common economic interests opposed to the Dutch economic ones, the building of a unitary Belgian state posed some serious problems.

The term is sometimes treated as synonymous with civil religion, but although some scholars use the terms as equivalent, others see a useful distinction, using " civil religion " as something weaker, which functions more as a socially unifying and essentially conservative force, where a political religion is radically transformational, even apocalyptic.

Firstly a state religion was the unifying ideology of the land.

A unifying theme of the movement was that the gender of deity characterizes the political gender-bias of the religion, so a Goddess Worshipping religion is held to be matriarchal and a " God " worshipping religion is held to be patriarchal.

Berenice's plan is for Manchile to announce the formation of a new religion unifying boppers and humans, and then arrange to have himself assassinated.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

The one unifying note, if any, is sounded in the initial article entitled: `` How To Get Through The Day ''.

Perhaps every person involved should be judged separately on his or her own merits, and each costume or line is its own work of art ( with perhaps the director having the job of unifying them all ).

The Langlands program is a far-reaching web of these ideas of ' unifying conjectures ' that link different subfields of mathematics, e. g. number theory and representation theory of Lie groups ; some of these conjectures have since been proved.

This is because all opposites are manifestations of the single Tao, and are therefore not independent from one another, but rather a variation of the same unifying force throughout all of nature.

With such a broad denotation, there is no universal language or unifying institution for designers of all disciplines.

A unifying theme is the attempt to optimize business decisions, including unit-cost minimization and profit maximization, given the firm's objectives and constraints imposed by technology and market conditions.

One unifying characteristic the membranes share is a lipid bilayer, with proteins attached to either side or traversing them.

The unifying stance for them is the idea of " creating and maintaining the freedom of individuals ".

The fascist view of a nation is of a single organic entity which binds people together by their ancestry and is a natural unifying force of people.

A unifying theme of this diverse movement is the femaleness of Deity ( as opposed and contrasted to a patriarchal God ).

HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on local issues or on providing social services, but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia.

* 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.

There is some disagreement concerning how best to describe the unifying themes, if there are any, that can be found in Machiavelli's works, especially in the two major political works, The Prince and Discourses.

Israel's definition of a nation state differs from other countries as its concept of a nation state is based on the Ethnoreligious group ( Judaism ) rather than solely on ethnicity, while the ancient mother language of the Jews, Hebrew, was revived as a unifying bond between them as a national and official language.

If by unifying you mean mixing, that is impossible, useless.

Chakotay's character is a unifying presence on Voyager.

This list of challenges is illustrative rather than exhaustive, and it focuses on the challenges to the " unifying logic " and " proof " layers of the Semantic Web.

In most modern usages of spectrum there is a unifying theme between extremes at either end.

The concept includes a number of interrelated ideas ; the unifying one is that tradition refers to beliefs, objects or customs performed or believed in in the past, originating in it, transmitted through time by being taught by one generation to the next, and are performed or believed in the present.

Swahili is seen as the unifying language of the country between different tribes, who each have their own tribal language ; English serves the purpose of providing Tanzanians with the ability to participate in the global economy and culture.

There is no single unifying belief that all Unitarian Universalists ( UUs ) hold, aside from complete and responsible freedom of speech, thought, belief, faith, and disposition.