In describing the discord of the times as a motion of democratic progress, a give-and-take between popular protest and a government capable of hearing and responding, the president was asking those who were frightened to be guided by principle; and he was asking those demanding change to believe that a social revolution was achievable through electoral politics.
Some of the fears through which we are burdened and which manifest in the discord and violence of racism, sexism, homophobia and poverty — in degradation of the environment around us and the spirit within us — include fear of change, fear of the unknown, fear of difference, fear of insufficiency, fear of our potential as human beings and the responsibility that implies.
Obama's different sort of Camelot will be defined in fond memory by the coming discord of the Trump administration.
After the end of the conflict in BiH, the tables turned, and I was asked by the former colonial liberator and President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere to assist in his mediation of the discord in Burundi.
In fact, much of the discord in this country over cultural issues is just that: a battle between compelling arguments of basic fairness and rigid religious concepts.
But in a sign of the discord in Washington, the senior U.S. intelligence official said the situation requires that the administration abandon its long-held goal of national reconciliation and instead "pick a winner" in Iraq.
The musical, an elegy to the ravages of time, charts the discord in the circumstances of two couples in souring marriages: lovelorn Sally and her unfaithful mate, Buddy, and radiant Phyllis and cold diplomat husband Ben.
But in a sign of the discord apparently going on in the meetings, a Chinese official said at a news conference that calls from outsiders for China to engage in "excessive" appreciation of the yuan were irresponsible.
In one example of the discord on the board, in December Ross negotiated a settlement agreement with management that enhanced the ability of flight attendants in some American bases to transfer.
In a sign of the discord between Washington and Beijing over the bank, Mr. Jin met in August with the United States ambassador to China, Max Baucus, and bluntly told him to tell Washington to soften its opposition to the bank, a senior Obama administration official familiar with the encounter said.
