After five largely harmonious meetings in the past two years to deal with the most severe downturn since the Depression, major disputes broke out between Washington and China, Britain, Germany and Brazil.
Terry McAuliffe, the party's national chairman, asserted, "I'm going to what will be the most nonevent, harmonious Rules Committee meeting in the history of the Democratic Party.
It's harmonious – a broad harmony – fifths and fourths".
A grinning Mr Li emerged from the meeting saying that talks were "harmonious" and that he hopes for a deal later this month.
Wagner felt that the meeting of "two disparate storytelling sensibilities" was "far less harmonious and compatible" than Clarke and Pohl may have imagined.
The interview in Le Monde appeared as Mr. Zardari headed for a four-day visit to Britain after talks in France, including a meeting at the ?ys?Palace with President Nicolas Sarkozy, that officials on both sides described as harmonious.
The report's title – China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative High-Income Society – reflects key concerns the Communist party will be promoting at the annual meeting of parliament, the National People's Congress, next week.
And how they must be looking forward to covering the meetings of the proposed British-Irish Council, with its promise of lively debates to promote "the harmonious and mutually beneficial development of the totality of relationships among the peoples of these islands".It is easy to mock, and the mocking ends here.
The annual meeting of the ruling party's Central Committee formally adopted President Hu Jintao's proposal to "build a harmonious socialist society," a move some analysts said was one of most decisive shifts in the party's thinking since Deng Xiaoping accelerated the push for high growth rates in the early 1990's.
Hitachi has "harmonious computing".
