An agreement to restore unity was signed in 2002, but it has taken four years to arrange a match that will produce a single champion.

The explicit aim of the conferences was to promote meaningful communication across scientific disciplines, and restore unity to science.

The value of their point was hard to gauge, given other results, but their performance, their renewed purpose, the restored unity between the team and their supporters, seemed important.

He faces the urgent task of restoring unity to the political centre right while dealing with the country's most challenging economic circumstances for at least 20 years.