Sentence examples for unification movement from inspiring English sources

Audiences at its 1849 premiere embraced the work as an unabashed rallying cry for the Italian unification movement.

And it was his capacity to inspire a quasi-religious fervor in his volunteers that allowed the unification movement, or the Risorgimento, as it became known, to overcome Catholic piety and loyalty to the Pope.

He and the Syndicate leaders fly to a little island in the North Sea, where a conference has been convened with a Congolese leader named Mwangaza, who is supposed to represent a unification movement called the Middle Path.

La battaglia di Legnano (1849; The Battle of Legnano), a tale of love and jealousy set against the Lombard League's victory over Frederick Barbarossa in 1176 ce, was Verdi's emphatic response to the Italian unification movement, or Risorgimento, which spilled over into open warfare in 1848, the year of revolutions.

As the United States interested itself in Europe and its wars, America constituted for itself a new role as a European power — the European power — as the late Richard Holbrooke made plain to the West Europeans when he was U.S. ambassador to Germany in the 1990s, reinforcing the dominant role Americans had played ever since the European unification movement began in 1951.

Sismondi's monumental 16-volume Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen âge (1809 18; History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages), which regarded the free cities of medieval Italy as the origin of modern Europe, inspired the leaders of that country's Risorgimento (nationalist unification movement).

' Prior to development of political institutions, flags representing Europe were limited to unification movements.

Because the world has just witnessed what may be one of the last mass global weddings organised by South Korea's Unification Church, the movement founded by the Rev Sun Myung Moon and which many outsiders consequently refer to as the "Moonies", though the movement itself objects to this.

Tells of transit problems and movement of unification of all lines.

Europe's movement toward unification has always been the product of crises.

At the same time, a movement for unification developed among South Slav politicians still living under Habsburg authority in Croatia.