Until she died in 2004, the tradition of giving parties to forge social and political alliances thrived in Washington, perpetuated by savvy, charming hostesses who delighted in making introductions and in smoothing discord between powerful men and women — magnifying their own reputations in the process.
In Cape Town, this year's World Design Capital, a decision on the city's new logo and branding slogan has been delayed until after the next general election, in May, because of discord between political parties over the costs.
The Latino population in the Hamptons has grown rapidly over the past few years, and with it has come a crescendo in discord and resentment between the older Anglo residents and Latino immigrants, local Latino advocates have said.
In my interview with Harvard University Distinguished professor and Asia-Pacific security expert Joseph Nye in June, Nye said that discord between Japan and South Korea was a major concern for US policymakers, as it could compromise efforts to prevent North Korean aggression in the Pacific.
United in Discord with Jason Citron (Discord).
A 1997 worldwide conference in Kyoto, Japan, on reducing climate-altering gases was in danger of collapsing because of discord between industrialized countries and the developing world about how quickly and how sharply to reduce the output of greenhouse gasses.
The stage in Dublin was thus set for discord between, on the one side, ban proponents looking to replicate the Ottawa landmine ban convention's blanket prohibition of a problematic weapon, and, on the other, a NATO-led group of countries committed to ensuring that the interoperability migraine they had after Ottawa would not be followed by a cluster headache after Dublin.
The co-occurrence within a given population of both B and C specific haplotypes contributes to extreme divergences (for cytb: θπ (E9) = 13.8 and θπ (E13) = 6.9; for 16S: θπ (E13) = 11.8 and θπ (E9) = 0.5 with only eastern types present in E9) that consequently leads to discord between gene and population trees.
But the potential for discord between them worries people in Myanmar.
Sovereignty over the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte remained a source of discord between the Comoros and France in 2006.
He said the incident took place against a backdrop of discord between the black and Hispanic populations in the impoverished southern New Jersey city.
