Yet Pitbull has overcome these afflictions to become not only a figure of global unity – he's on the official World Cup song – but also a sleaze and the self-proclaimed Mr Worldwide, a feat Annan could only dream of.
Similarly, Trump needs only to perceive himself as a figure of social unity to effectively make this his reality, even if the facts are steadfastly unwilling to corroborate the idea.
In their attempts to represent the emperor as a figure of national unity, proponents and detractors of the Third Republic used the legend as a vehicle for exploring anxieties about gender and fears about the processes of democratization that accompanied this new era of mass politics and culture.
For many who believe in the apocalypse, but aren't so rash as to think that they can predict or trigger it, venerating and emulating Jesus as a figure of aid, justice, and unity in the end times is more salient.
As successor to Peter, our first pope, Pope Francis I stands as the figure of unity for all Catholics wherever they reside.
Bishops, he thundered, must be figures of unity.
For them she represents hope of a better future and a figure embodying the unity that is so absent from present day Burma.
As we can see from Figure 1, there was a lack of unity between the set of HapMap SNPs and the SNPs available with EST evidence.
The wispy, tentative piano figure that opens the work resurfaces in different guises, giving the piece a measure of unity.
The dashed line in Figure 3 is a diagonal reference line, which passes through the origin with a slope of unity.
