In Canada, the term is also sometimes used to describe several disparate regions which have a higher than average level of church attendance.
At the shrine the pilgrims of France's disparate regions recognized "the deep similarity of religious feeling that united them."
But these disparate regions are very much of the present, stitched into the quilt of global commerce.
The difference here is that this central bank, the ECB, has to stand behind a disparate region of 17 nations.
Few countries celebrate their railways more than India, where the rail network established under British rule has helped bind the country's disparate regions together.
In 1867, under the threat of expansion by the United States, Britain finally persuaded Canada's disparate regions to become a single country.
On the story itself, it is fascinating when totally disparate regions are found to have commonalities.
They additionally indicate patterns of ancestry, imply new migrations, and show the actual flow of individuals between disparate regions.
Beyond teaching the game and warning of drug abuse, the players talk with the children about conflict resolution and living together in a disparate, divided region.
The general also faced some opposition from soldiers opposed to his efforts to unite Pakistan's disparate regions around Islam.