Despite the SFIO's pacifist roots, its deputies supported military appropriations after Germany declared war on France, and most socialists favoured the formation of the union sacrée ("sacred union"), a national unity government including socialists and political parties of the far right.
No, we spoke about it as a sacred symbol of unity … Isis did not arrive from Mars; it is a natural product of our retrograde discourse".
This, I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us, bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in times of armed strife.
Worship is ordered by means of liturgy directing the experience of the worshipper in patterns that combine the written word, the spoken word, and sacred music in a unity aimed at bringing him or her into the presence of the divine.
The Kindah Tree is said to be sacred and symbolic of family unity in the community.
Theravada Buddhism became the religion of the people, and the grandiose vision of a cultural unity based on sacred kingship disappeared.
In many pre-agricultural societies, groups achieved trust and unity by circling around sacred objects.
Likewise, the King wanted a Bible that would both honor its sacred sources and emblazon the new unity and humanism of his reign.
"Flowers can represent the deepest feelings, they are always present in the acts of love, unity, death and other sacred rituals practiced throughout the world".
"The unity of Iraq is not sacred," cries the movement's newspaper this week on its front page.Messrs Barzani and Talabani say they can fulfil the Kurds' national aspirations in a federal system.
