An important function of worship is the creation and maintenance of social concord in societies dominated by one religion.
Such rhetoric, typical of most discussions of the republic from the 13th to the 16th century, gained its persuasive power from the real social concord that the Venetian government, like no other, indeed provided.
When I lived in the Twin Cities in the nineteen-nineties, a freelance musician joked to me that the Minnesota Orchestra (which, in happier times, was the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra), would never go out of business: it was "a bank," he said, a cultural monument in a state that has always placed a high value upon social concord and the public institutions that make it possible.
To be sure, France is a nation far longer schooled in and tempered by domestic tragedy than our own the French are not inclined to bore each other with talk about when, exactly, they lost their innocence but the country is no less sensitive and protective of its social concords.
The companies named in the indictment included the Internet Research Agency IRAA), known for its "trolling" on social media, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, which is said to have provided financial backing for the operation, and Concord Catering.
Late last year, he claimed that the Russian people finally "managed to achieve... social, political, and civil concord".
But, rather than elaborating on the causes of revolution, Putin switched to his perpetual theme: "We need history's lessons primarily for reconciliation and for strengthening the social, political and civil concord that we have managed to achieve".
The Prince of Asturias Foundation, whose chairman is Felipe de Bourbon, heir to the Spanish throne, awards annual prizes in communication and the humanities, scientific and technological research, social sciences, arts, letters, international cooperation and sports and concord.
CONCORD, N.H. — Mike Huckabee, who surged in Iowa polls with an appeal to religious and social conservatives, returned Friday to New Hampshire, where he is still an also-ran for the Republican presidential nomination, and opened a newly focused campaign for the votes of working people and economic conservatives.
Moreover, these results concord well with findings of existing intervention literature where effective interventions have tended to focus on social distal factors (such as parental and peer behaviors and parental involvement) for preventing risk factors such as cigarette smoking, unhealthy diet consumption, and obesity [ 71, 72].
What struck me most was that the revolution was started by people who had these social networks, but it was taken over very quickly by militias who were a bit out of control -- Lexington Concord was not what they expected, after all.
