The spirit gives cohesion to the manifold of material parts, and needs them as a basis and material for its unifying activity.

The form of the books was preserved and the character of the writing distinctly legible, but, from the effect of moisture, the paper had lost its cohesion, and fell to pieces at every effort to turn a leaf.

What is certain is that amongst them neither leadership nor initiative was developed, and that they lacked both cohesion and organisation.

As a means of developing the physical efficiency of whole nations, of increasing their patriotic cohesion, of implanting in individuals the sense of political reality and responsibility, no substitute for manhood training has yet been discovered.

Complete independence in local affairs, when combined with adequate representation in the federal council, has effected such an intense cohesion of interests throughout the nation as no centralized government, however cunningly devised, could ever have secured.

Only by an effort could Peter enforce a temporary cohesion among them, and they dropped apart at the first slackening of the strain.

If the stress exceeds the cohesion, numerous cracks open up, producing a "honey-combed" condition, or "hollow-horning," as it is called.

There was no frame at allno unified scheme in which these fragments found cohesion.

Thenceforth he merely hangs together;simple cohesion is the utmost approximation to action which can be truly attributed to him.

Each governor or admiral made these transfers here, as in the Marquesas and all the islands, with the primary object of lessening native cohesion, of Frenchifying us.

With the point of his knife he loosened the cohesion.

The question what is the shortest period that will suffice to produce cohesion belongs to educational psychology.

The question remained, who could now undertake to amalgamate the various political groups, which, except in Opposition, had shown so little stable cohesion?

But others are like this graceful purple blossom, floating unfixed, kept in place only by its fellows around it, until perhaps a breeze comes, and, breaking the accidental cohesion, sweeps them all away.

The existence of four parties, a very unusual occurrence in American politics, had seriously weakened party cohesion, and more than quadrupled party prejudice and mistrust.

It was believed by the older generation of soldiers that any reduction of this period would compromise that cohesion of the troops which is the characteristic mark of a disciplined army.

Were it not for this property it would be impossible to dry wood without destroying completely its cohesion, due to the irregularity of shrinkage.

Here the linten is put into a hot bath of air forced through heated water, and thus charged with moisture, which softens the filaments and diminishes the cohesion of the fibres.