The basis for this surprising claim is that human beings share with certain insects — the bee, the ant, the termite — the remarkable capacity to sacrifice self-interest for unity and group defense.
In the interest of unity, orthodoxy prescribed closure; but in an age of disunity, the quest for order charged through intellectual barriers with emancipatory fervor.
So we are respecting Arafat's requests for a cease-fire in the interest of national unity, and in that interest alone".
In the end, Mr. Rivera, 64, said he withdrew in the interest of party unity.
At the least, David believed, Beachwood would accept the campus in the interest of communal unity.
And he came close to doing what Mrs. Clinton's advisers have increasingly feared some big-name Democrat would do as the battle for the nomination drags on: Urge Mrs. Clinton to step aside in the interest of party unity.
The assemblywoman, Audrey I. Pheffer, said she reached the decision late Sunday night in the interest of party unity, just hours before the executive committee of the Queens Democratic Party was scheduled to convene and endorse City Councilwoman Helen M. Marshall for the job.
Campbell appealed for unity.
