Example collocations logo

Discord in sentence

98 examples of Discord in a sentence

Damaging discord has emerged within the troika itself, with a particularly disruptive impasse between Frankfurt, where the ECB resides, and Berlin, the seat of the German government.
Most (though not all) religious faiths today contain extremist groups, all capable of producing discord among previously settled communities.
Whether this produces harmony or discord depends our frame of mind – open or closed.
The refugee crisis has thrown this discord into sharp relief.
Similarly, it wants to sow discord among European religious and minority communities themselves (the Sunni-Shia and Sunni-Alevi divide being two clear examples).
The insurgents continue their efforts to undermine the peace process, and political wrangling and discord threaten to paralyze the fragile institutions of governance.
If this scolding does represent growing discord, any hardline tilt in Israel could further strain the country’s relationship with the US.
Such divergence, of course, implies ample potential for discord within the ECB in the near future.
From the beginning, the inner world of those entrusted to make recommendations was marked by personal and principled discord over how to interpret Alfred Nobel’s cryptic will and to whom prizes should be awarded.
But, in Washington, Modi and Trump displayed a comfortable chemistry, with no real discord to be seen – a departure from some of Trump’s other early diplomatic forays.
The other option is to close the Round by resolving the US-India discord on agriculture.
Even if North Korea does not change its policy, total economic isolation may bring about an end to its nuclear program, by sowing internal discord and, ultimately, triggering the regime’s collapse.
That is a convenient international ploy, but it leaves the sources of bilateral discord unattended.
The history of the region’s discord is a complex mix of ethnic, territorial, and existential fears, imaginary or real.
Ukraine followed, but, owing to internal discord, Kremlin pressure, and the European Union’s indifference, the Orange Revolution was unable to deliver on the promise of democracy.
The commodity boom and discovery of mineral resources in fragile states have sown seeds of discord, while the spread of democracy in low-income countries – perhaps surprisingly – increases the statistical likelihood of political violence.
Lebanon’s experience reveals the discord between the psychology of crowds and the goals of the political elites who rally behind them – a conflict that can also be seen in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid, and Tripoli, Libya, where crowds have stormed the parliament building several times in the last few months.
This discord is threatening to derail these countries’ burgeoning democratic processes, owing to growing competition between what Le Bon called the “sovereignty of the crowds” and the sovereignty of political elites.
Beneath even the richest soil, Dangerfield wrote, may lie the most perilous residue of discord and destruction.
Sowing discord is a group of priests loyal to the schismatic church started by that renegade French archbishop, Marcel Lefebvre, in the 1970s.
As a result, she failed to create harmony out of discord.
By inundating these two platforms with automated messages from tens of thousands of bogus user accounts, Russia was able to stoke discord along economic, racial, and political lines.
Security assistance should emphasize intelligence and policing so that Ukraine is less vulnerable to Russian attempts to sow discord and cause unrest.
But, by using its energy resources and recovered confidence to fuel instability and discord, it is seeking to expand its sphere of interest – an outcome that can be averted only by a unanimous and determined EU response.
Ravaged by endemic elite discord since its founding, Pakistan desperately needs an elite reconciliation that includes all of the country’s major stakeholders.
These risks could in turn exacerbate internal discord in the country at a time when the ruling Justice and Development Party is struggling to retain popular support.
At a time of widespread geopolitical discord, competition over freshwater resources could emerge as a serious threat to long-term peace and stability in Asia.
The race to appropriate water resources in Asia is straining agriculture and fisheries, damaging ecosystems, and fostering dangerous distrust and discord across the region.
Similarly, when it came to negotiating a new pact to mitigate global climate change, diplomatic efforts had to contend with international discord in 2009, forcing leaders to postpone their efforts yet again.
To make matters worse, recent reports have emerged that regime loyalists have been meddling directly in opposition affairs in an effort to sow discord.
Back