Prior to the Romans, Britain was a disparate set of peoples with no sense of national identity beyond that of their local tribe.

They were at first a disparate set of unlikely acquaintances that bonded in a common brokenness and resultant "search for Truth".

Caught between two disparate sets of desperate signals, what's a teen-ager to do?

"To have someone look at it as an industry rather than as particular, separate and disparate sets of assets seems sensible and prudent."

But the World Series forced a disparate, and often early-rising, set of residents into staying up way past their bedtime far too many nights.

But the historians operate under a wholly different and disparate set of assumptions.

"Chaconne," set to ballet music from Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice" and performed Friday, is a work for three fairly disparate sets of dancers.

In Australia a furor erupted when the transport authorities decided to consolidate and clarify the disparate set of laws that collectively made lane splitting illegal.

Efforts to alleviate poverty use a disparate set of methods, such as advocacy, education, social work, legislation, direct service or charity, and community organizing.

In mathematics, the letter,sigma represented "the sum of all parts,", the unification of disparate sets into a whole.