Example collocations logo

Harmony in sentence

283 examples of Harmony in a sentence

As the world’s second largest intergovernmental organization, the Organization of the Islamic Conference is committed to cooperating with the international community to promote and consolidate global peace, stability, harmony, security, and development.
All that is needed is a vague claim that their activities are jeopardizing “communal harmony.”
Sadly, Indian society never really embraced the consensual values that India's Constitution proclaims: a participatory, decentralized democracy; an egalitarian society with minimal social and economic disparities; a secularized polity; the supremacy of the rule of law; a federal structure ensuring partial autonomy to provinces; cultural and religious pluralism; harmony between rural and urban areas; and an efficient, honest state administration at both the national and local level.
Asking everyone to do more than what everyone is unanimously ratifying would undermine Europe’s fragile harmony.
As the political scientist Samuel Huntington has said, “Business may bring communities closer but it cannot bring them into harmony.”
Karma had founded and financed a leading Tibetan environmental organization in 2001, and was named China’s philanthropist of the year in 2006 by China Central Television (for “creating harmony between men and nature”).
Unfortunately, as was evident in Madrid, there is little harmony between French and US diplomacy: disagreement on NATO renovation and therefore on French integration in the command structure; painful agreement on the number of countries to be admitted into NATO in the first round; disagreement on costs...
This is a basic social truth that most people know from their personal lives: Happiness and harmony are far more important than the empty comfort of being convinced you’re right.
Known as “W,” Wirathu is the other face of a religion that is widely perceived as the archetype of peace, love, and harmony.
Chinese rulers, to this day, have been obsessed with central control, continental unity, and social harmony – that is, a society without political conflict.
Forests, for example, are completely efficient systems, with species’ lifecycles occurring in perfect harmony with the seasons.
If the UN vote succeeds, however, it will not be a people talking with their occupiers, but two states negotiating about how to manage their relations in peace and harmony.
The global public must unite to compel decision-makers to take real action aimed at overcoming obstacles to peace, harmony, and sustainability.
It engages criteria of elegance, of beauty, of harmony as old as Plato but now hidden from all who cannot master the languages, the poetry of algebra.
But Saudi Arabia’s long-cultivated image of stability, benevolence, and mystical communal harmony has given way under the endless glare of the American press.
Still, the spirit of surfing’s early days (think of the harmony of wave and human action portrayed in the 1971 movie Morning of the Earth) contrasts sharply with the razzamatazz of today’s professional circuit.
It would be highly regrettable if the competitive sport’s narrow focus on point-scoring were to limit our appreciation of the beauty and harmony we can experience riding a wave without fitting as many turns as possible into our time on it.
Indeed, fear of our own awesome power explains the appeal of environmentalism, with its vision--particularly in its fundamentalist, quasi-religious variant, so-called "deep ecology"--of an intrinsically "pure" Nature whose harmony is supposedly disrupted by man.
But they would be mistaken to think that those who uphold them have lost the will – and the ability – to cultivate a spirit of cooperation and harmony.
As individuals, we are part of an ever-widening circle of communities, and we can realize our potential only if we live in harmony with each other.
Likewise, while the European project sought to bring about the “harmony” of people living together in peace, we also must live in harmony with our environment – the scarcest of all of our resources.
Egypt’s vibrant political life, press, and liberal culture were then supported by an ideology of secular nationalism and improved religious harmony.
The idea of harmony, for example, is a rich philosophical concept in classic Buddhism and Confucianism.
Add to that the turmoil in the nearby Middle East – exacerbated by America’s withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan – and India’s security situation is not immediately conducive to harmony and cooperation.
The two trouble spots that may erupt and disturb harmony around the world, surprisingly, are its two greatest economies: America and Japan.
But China’s ability to persuade others that its international behavior stems from its search for balance will depend on its leaders’ ability to embrace the rule of law – in substance rather than just in rhetoric – as a fundamental basis for the harmony that they publicly espouse.
With outcomes that fall far short of policymakers’ projections, it is not surprising that there is little harmony in official circles.
Whether this produces harmony or discord depends our frame of mind – open or closed.
Justice was a communal affair and society set a high store by social harmony and peace.
Thailand’s national mythology is that it is a happy Buddhist country, a “land of smiles” bound together by compassion and harmony under the benevolent grace and blessings of the Palace and the generosity of big business.
BackNext