In Rousseau's opinion, true love for the nurturing, feminine mother, instead of lustful love for a mistress, goes hand in hand with patriotism and civic harmony.

The core principle behind affirmative action is that excluding black people undermines civic harmony and runs counter to American ideals.

Despite its obvious lack of civic harmony, the city does have an established, often effective network of family and small-claims courts, of mediation offices run by Victim Services and other centers for settling community disputes.

Many spoke proudly of their record of integration and promised to rededicate themselves to civic harmony.

The nation's largest commuter railroad is being portrayed as a mass torture device, a (sporadically) moving assault on civic harmony that daily unravels tempers from Seventh Avenue to Montauk.

When Pythagoras arrived at Croton, his first advice to the Crotoniates was to build a shrine to the Muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning.

Mr. Hale said he hoped the new decision would "end the bitter public confrontation" and "restore a measure of civic harmony now that everyone is aware what the law of this land requires."

- "Isn't that merely a mythical assumption, that population densities and comfort levels really have a bearing on civic harmony?"

The test is to think clearly through the situation without being driven to knee-jerk authoritarianism or, at the other extreme, pandering to outrageous demands that jeopardize civic harmony or public safety to an unreasonable extent.

The magistracy in Tudor Norwich unusually found ways of managing religious discord whilst maintaining civic harmony.