The aim was partly to ease the pressure on islands such as Java and Madura, and partly to create, it was hoped, a greater sense of unity among the diverse peoples of the archipelago.

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This prompted Ralph Klein, Alberta's premier, to call Mr Landry a greater threat to national unity than Mr Bouchard ever was.

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So that's going to give the Democrats even a greater challenge in terms of forging unity.

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Greater EU unity has been a U.S. cause for 30 years and more.

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Ulster Unionist Environment Minister Dermot Nesbitt, a strong supporter of Mr Trimble, said he was hopeful of greater unity in the party when the ruling council meets.

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Mr. SEAMUS ROAN (Social Worker, Unity for Greater New Orleans): So the resources for a homeless individual probably at best half of what they were before, and yet there's twice as many homeless people today as there were.

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In a debate on Europe in Westminster Hall, Conservative MP Edward Leigh warned against greater fiscal unity in the eurozone and compared agreements reached at EU summits to the return of former Neville Chamberlain to the UK declaring "peace in our time", the year before World War II began.

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"It's like a tale of two cities, " said Mike Miller, who works with the homeless group Unity of Greater New Orleans.

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