However, a number of myths have helped to keep it unified.
"The city needs every effort we can make to keep it unified".
But to keep Iraq unified the Shiites will have to respect the rights and aspirations of Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis, as well as other minorities.
Otpor activists say they want to inspire the population and "guide" the political opposition, as a kind of monitor, to keep them unified.
Some Southeast Asian officials said they believed that China was emboldened by a belief that the United States was a waning power that lacked the clout to keep Asean unified.
"These buildings represented our home — they helped keep us unified coming out of Cuba," said Facundo L. Bacardi, a fifth-generation famemberember and chairman of Bacardi Ltd., the parent company.
Mr. Netanyahu also hopes to keep Jerusalem unified under Israeli sovereignty, rejects any absorption of Palestinian refugees and appears to want to hold on to much more territory in the West Bank.
With the resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- and renewed speculation that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who has thyroid cancer and was in the hospital Wednesday with a fever, could retire -- the members of the Gang of 14 are trying to chart a course that would keep them unified in the event of a divisive Supreme Court confirmation fight.
However for Google, it is important to keep Android unified around the OHA in China so that it can continue to serve Android handsets - whose activations are now running at over a miilion per day - with search results and, in time, garner advertising revenue.
One of his candidates told me that their aim was to keep Iraq unified and protect its people, no matter what their sect or ethnicity.
