"It is well-known that wives often don't get along with their in-laws, so in the interest of harmony I agreed that we would live with her family instead," he said.
But overnight diplomatic manoeuvres saw the decision revoked in the interests of international harmony.
In the first one the ethnic divide is crossed by the stars' respective families in the interests of television harmony.
Perhaps they should have had a quiet word with him then, if only in the interests of team harmony and common purpose.
The group has also written to the landholder asking for them to withdraw their application to be a nuclear waste dump site "in the interests of community harmony".
They are voracious, indiscriminate consumers of popular culture, and while I can't always share their enthusiasm — in the interests of family harmony, we tacitly agree not to bring up my reviews of "Madagascar" or "Chicken Little" — I am always happy to feed it.
Not wishing to add commentary about the possibility of harm to the cuttings to the other problems, I let that go in the interests of marital harmony, no doubt burnished by a faint hint of incompetence on my part (i.e., I could have gotten the buckets myself, but did not want to butt in on her project).
My dad is an avid follower not just of the policy side of the election (my primary interest) but of the "horse race," and I knew he wouldn't agree to turn the television off for the sake of harmony.
In the interest of family harmony I bit my lip and said little, but their judgment stings.
Perhaps, in the interest of cohabitational harmony — as well as good health — this arrangement is all for the best.
