Sentence examples for unifying society from inspiring English sources

Originating in festival activities, this art form served the political function of unifying society, the religious function of identifying and describing a supernatural power capable of averting calamity on earth, and the economic function of inspiring productive activity, especially that related to agriculture.

According to Mohist political theory, this aim is achieved by unifying society's moral standards, so that people will agree in their value judgments, thus eliminating any potential reasons for conflict.

Frequently, erasing the past for the sake of unifying society (an idea based, to a certain extent, on socialism) caused the Jewish identity of many new immigrants from all corners of the world to be devalued.

Unlike Physics Education Research or Chemistry Education Research, BER does not have a unifying society, entity, or venue to enhance collaboration among practitioners and support the growth of BER.

It could foster criminal prosecutions of lower-level perpetrators and truth-and-reconciliation processes at the national level, as well as investigations of any serious crimes committed by rebel forces, a signal that the new government believes in fairness within a unified society.

The early Mohists hoped to develop objective moral standards by which to unify society and achieve social order.

He's interested in history as a sort of secular religion that can unify a society in a pluralistic way.

Not even the terrorist attacks of 2001, which surely rank high among the most jarring events in American history, did much to unify the society in any lasting way.

After 1963 Malaysian leaders sought to indigenize and unify their society by adopting the Malay language as the medium of instruction in schools beyond the primary level and by teaching English only as a second language.

It is the respect that Israelis have for Bar-Ilan Unitsrsity and its efforts to unify Israeli society that led to Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision to give his recent address at the university's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

Most archaeologists argue that the massive, decades-long effort to build the Great Houses, and the marking over several generations of the rhythms of the moon, served to unify Chacoan society across broad reaches of desert and time.