I can't see him uniting a team, directing anything.
Despite her reluctance to be its leader, Ms. Lopez has succeeded in uniting a family.
To many, an absolute ruler uniting a plurality of ethnic, religious, and interest groups offered the best hope of justice.
Municipal or state boundaries are no excuse for not uniting a region's populated areas into one cohesive transportation system.
"The Democrats don't have a broad platform uniting a bunch of groups around a progressive agenda," Mr. DeHaven-Smith said, "but they do have a target uniting a bunch of groups around a common enemy".
His sense of presence is like the German Geist, something inevitably, unarguably there, informing and uniting a people.
He says his biggest obstacle is uniting a disillusioned opposition, whose fractures have been among Mr. Chávez's biggest advantages.
Uniting a fractious government will be his main challenge and, considering his age, 89, it could be his biggest.
Mr. Nicholes, 45, said the ceremony was about more than uniting a husband and a wife: "It's not just us, it's the families together".
But the tone of the town halls underscored the challenge facing Erickson: uniting a large, disparate group of alumni upset over the board of trustees' firing of Paterno.
Instead of bombs falling from the studio sky, there is a gentle dusting of artificial snow, uniting a generation under a blanket of forgiveness, forgetfulness and peace.
