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What does 'coalesce around' mean?

This unity may coalesce around a determination to push South Africa further down the road of non-racialism, of equality of opportunity and the eradication of poverty, all of them among Nelson Mandela's most cherished ambitions for the country.
  

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com/us/definition/american_english/coalesce ). " means that this determination is the focus or "centre" of the unity that forms.

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"coalesce" has its ordinary meaning: Come together and form one mass or whole (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/coalesce). "around a determination ..." means that this determination is the focus or "centre" of the unity that forms.

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