Word: discordant
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Both sides say much discord could be avoided by persuading athletic directors to rely less on the proportionality test and more on one of the two other options for proving compliance."One of the greatest problems is the thinking that proportionality is the only way to reach the goal," says Valerie Bonnette, who spent 15 years in the Office of Civil Rights and is now a private consultant to schools working to achieve gender equity. "Title IX offers enough flexibility that schools have a reasonable choice...
...Everything--myth, allegory, history, erotica--was assimilated to his glory. When he was barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies--there was nothing that Cosimo's artists did not show Cosimo doing for Florence...
...Everything - myth, allegory, history, erotica - was assimilated to his glory. When he was barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies - there was nothing that Cosimo's artists did not show Cosimo doing for Florence...
What makes anyone think that Christians, Muslims and Jews can unite behind any man, when they cannot live in peace under the one true God they all believe in? The search for peace through Abraham will lead only along the path we have already traveled--to disagreements, discord and strife. The sole solution is for people of the three faiths to live together as children of God. George J. Steele Amsterdam...
...article’s parting shot: a two-year-old, decontextualized, and inflammatory quotation from a graduate of the College. By ending the article on this negative note, The Crimson implies a persistently acrimonious relationship between the BGLTSA and BOND which simply does not exist. The period of discord to which the quotation alludes took place years ago, while most members of our respective organizations were still in high school. It is neither reasonable nor responsible to extrapolate current thinking from the words of students no longer affiliated with our organizations...