Truly ye are in a doctrine discordant,

Truly ye are in a doctrine discordant,

Mankiw s comments come as the president struggles to shore up support in manufacturing states that have lost millions of jobs....Mankiw s conclusions may prove discordant during an election year...

If we are to shift paradigms, if we are to make breakthroughs, if we are to destroy myths, we need to create an environment in which expert ideas are battling it out, in which we're bringing in new, diverse, discordant, heretical views into the discussion, fearlessly, in the knowledge that progress comes about, not only from the creation of ideas, but also from their destruction and also from the knowledge that, by surrounding ourselves by divergent, discordant, heretical views.

They didn t claim that what he said was inaccurate, or shortsighted, or analytically unsound. The descriptive terms they used discordant, embarrassing, political liability suggest that they knew they were giving Mankiw a raw deal.

A study in India similarly concluded, in sero discordant couples where the man is negative, the woman is more likely to experience rejection and isolation from the spouse and the marital family than if her husband is HIV positive .

A study of discordant couples in Uganda showed that where one partner has HIV and the other does not, healthy women tended to stay and support their husbands or partners, while women with HIV often experienced violence or abandonment by their HIV negative partners.

Say 'He is Able to send forth upon you punishment from above you or beneath your feet, or to divide you into discordant factions, and to make some of you taste the affliction of the other' Look how We make plain Our verses, in order that they understand.

Say 'He is Able to send forth upon you punishment from above you or beneath your feet, or to divide you into discordant factions, and to make some of you taste the affliction of the other' Look how We make plain Our verses, in order that they understand.

This is not the first time communications has been a problem for the ECB. On more than one occasion, under both Trichet and former ECB chairman Wim Duisenberg before him, press leaks and the tit for tat responses they engender, made the Governing Council sound more like a cacophony of discordant voices than a serious deliberative body.

At the same time, Francis s Jesuit background has instilled in him a certain independence and flair for the quirky (like nonchalantly sanctifying John XXIII and John Paul II in one fell swoop). The Society of Jesus whose spirituality is based on a seemingly discordant yet enduring combination of mysticism and realpolitik has forged a paradoxical alliance of fidelity to corporate commands and willingness to give individual talents their due.