The public health approach has come under attack from a disparate group of critics.

The disparate groups in an open-source effort are held together by a common goal.

In the 1980s, there were attempts to gather these disparate groups into one community.

Further, he has the ability to act as a facilitator between disparate groups.

He acknowledged that getting the disparate groups to make common cause would probably not be easy.

The societies united disparate groups of people from different classes.

To get 51 percent, you have to put together disparate groups.

Getting those disparate groups to agree to anything in the best of circumstances takes months, not weeks.

In any case, he says, the movement's leaders were too disparate a group to find enough common ground to carry out the operation.

Only a form of hierarchy can hold all the disparate groups and individuals together as the movement grows.