1.   Such small changes are invaluable in giving themes renewed vitality, while at the same time preserving unity.

2.   The Movement recognised this, as it also recognised that administrative pressures were working against a concerted attempt to preserve religious unity.

3.   This principle of renewing interest while preserving unity is the basis of all successful conventional musical forms.

4.   It was anxious to preserve the unity of the Commonwealth and to nurture such anti-communist potential as existed among Asian nationalists.

5.   Arafat, who for a decade has tried to preserve Palestinian unity by equivocating about terrorism, finally closed the door on any return to confrontation and violence.

6.   Arafat, they said, will have to choose between preserving Palestinian unity and making progress in peace negotiations, they said.

7.   A common stand was often taken in the name of preserving European unity on an issue that could have divided France and Germany.

8.   A Bush White House might find it hard to preserve NATO unity while refusing to station U.S. troops in chronic trouble spots like the Balkans.

9.   It preserves the unity of command for Russian forces who will serve in Kosovo.

10.   Mainland leaders have been trying to churn up nationalist feelings as a way to preserve political unity.