WHILE global unity may still be a distant goal, uniting the electronic gadgets around the home is becoming easier, especially thanks to wireless products that eliminate some of the messiest entanglements.
Usually the image formed by a single lens is not good enough for precise work in such fields as astronomy, microscopy, and photography; this is because the cone of rays emitted by a single point in a distant object is not united in a perfect point by the lens but instead forms a small patch of light.
The third bond is that of goods of fortune; here it is a case of encouraging the economic prosperity of people by means of developing commerce and especially navigation, the vital lymphatic system that makes it possible to unite distant lands and to connect the separate limbs of the empire.
And rugs can unite distant counters and provide a sense of soul.
In the 1994 campaign season, in an effort to offer an alternative to Democratic policies and to unite distant wings of the Republican Party, Gingrich and several other Republicans came up with a Contract with America, which laid out ten policies that Republicans promised to bring to a vote on the House floor during the first hundred days of the new Congress, if they won the election.
Previous scene has Marshal Pétain telling Eva Braun, "I see a united Europe one not very distant day".
What united them was a distrust of distant leaders and institutions.
In 1917-18 there was a big country in the middle of Russia called Idel-Ural (literally, "Volga-Ural") which united the Finno-Ugric (the "Ugric" because of distant cousinship with Hungary) and Turkic peoples in those areas.
Those who suffer most when their parents separate are those whose parents fail to remain united about the care of their children even when distant from one another.
Some systematic treatments have united Lysandra with Meleageria, but the two subgenera appear distinctly distant from each other in our analysis.
With the tone of a distant if kindly uncle, Mr Putin wrote: "We are by no means indifferent to developments in united Europe".
