(n.) A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Public criticism of Ed Miliband's leadership by senior Labour figures is creating an impression of "toxic disunity" and risks handing the next election to the Tories, according to party grandee Dame Tessa Jowell .
(2) The disunity in Palmer’s party has only complicated the government’s task in finding the votes it needs.
(3) The attorney general, George Brandis , said he was sure the Liberals could put the disunity behind them.
(4) However, the lack of any questioning of the European commission’s position on the timeline surprised Brussels veterans, wearily used to displays of EU disunity.
(5) I very much regret that they do not not seem to care about creating an appearance of disunity which does damage to the party.
(6) The commisssion warned the candidates and their teams to "strictly avoid applying discriminatory languages and tribal, racial, linguistic, regional, and religious prejudices which cause … disunity among the Afghan people".
(7) Now though, after years of disunity and faltering advances, its influence has shrunk to a section of central Syria and the southern border with Jordan.
(8) Every single time there is a Ukip conference it finishes with a story of disunity and it is all being caused by one person.
(9) As was the way in the late 60s, they had developed a lot of radical ideas – “about disunity and provocation and abandoned strands of urban theory” – but never really had the opportunity to put them into practice.
(10) And, in a sign of further disunity in the ranks, Saam Idriss, a key leader of the opposition's military wing, the Free Syria Army, said he refused to recognise the appointment last week of an interim prime minister.
(11) But the campaign, pitting Labour cabinet members against one another, deepened the wound of disunity.
(12) Calls for unity are meaningless without first spelling out on what basis people should unite and working out where the disunity came from in the first place.
(13) The government is well advised to limit his exposure.” He added: “His purpose is not to engage with the Muslim community [but to engage in] politics and disunity.” The ALA wants to contest the next federal election, largely on an anti-Islamic platform that includes a moratorium on immigration from Muslim nations, and a ban on face coverings such as the burqa and niqab.
(14) Obama's re-election team, based in Chicago, watched with glee, hopeful that the disunity on display and a protracted, energy-sapping campaign will work to their advantage.
(15) After years of disunity and faltering advances, its influence and territory has shrunk, while Islamist groups have grown.
(16) The G20 summit brings together the world’s biggest economies, representing 85% of global gross domestic product (GDP), and Merkel’s chosen agenda looks likely to maximise American isolation while attempting to minimise disunity amongst others.
(17) Set aside the merits of the issue and just consider this as a case study in political management: disunity, people opining all over the shop, people leaking against colleagues – overlay knights and dames = bad week.
(18) Without it, the short-term economic collapse might be worse, but its continuation only emphasises the disunity lying behind the apparent success of short-term bailouts.
(19) Trump scorned the party’s disunity, telling CBS in an interview broadcast on Sunday congressional Republicans were “terrible negotiators”.
(20) The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, hit out at disunity within Labour, blaming both sitting MPs and Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson, who criticised the party’s approach to Brexit.
Unity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being one; oneness.
(n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
(n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
(n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
(n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
(3) "It is really a time for cooperation and unity," he said, adding that recent events had shown the need for Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds – to work together.
(4) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
(5) The present results indicate that R will be quite close to unity and therefore the performance capability would theoretically be independent of body mass.
(6) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(7) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(8) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
(9) Values of K' less than unity lead to negative selective interaction.
(10) The death of an adoptive parent resulted in relative risks of death in the adoptees that were close to unity for all causes, natural causes, and infections, 3.02 (0.72 to 12.8) for vascular causes, and 5.16 (1.20 to 22.2) for cancers.
(11) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
(12) The rationality of subdividing the tumours of this type into separate entries of different onconosological unities is discussed.
(13) I am not a Muslim but I see that the cover has been read as yet more provocation, even an undoing of the unity of the marches in Paris and other cities.
(14) In view of the fact that neurology and psychiatry in childhood and adolescence necessarily form a unity, the proportion of neurological diseases is analysed on the basis of the in-patients of five clinic years of a pediatric-neuropsychiatric university hospital.
(15) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
(16) Coronary venous ligations were done at various levels and also thromboflebitis at various levels, in order to demonstrate the function of the venous drainage of the heart, as a "venous-unity" and with a great compensating capacity.
(17) "Let us arm ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness," Malala said.
(18) This the unity of the functional and morphological aspects can prove to be especially lucrative in the research of endocrinology.
(19) The intent is to move beyond the issue of issues and to discover some sense of unity.
(20) 2 February 2010: Papandreou makes TV appeal for unity over financial crisis Greece announces a wider austerity package, including a freeze on public sector pay and higher taxes for low and middle-income households.