Handing off that part of the business, so to speak, preserves harmony.

My father had acted to preserve harmony in the bubble, and I noted this and learned from it.

The women in turn had to speak in quiet voices and preserve harmony.

This, he believed, was the sure way of preserving national unity and communal harmony.

Japan, after all, must preserve "international harmony," to use a favorite locution.

I had preserved harmony, kept our link to the stars open.

About half the colonists seemed to be human, mostly quite young, all married and accompanied by their wives, to preserve harmony.

Avoiding facework attempts to preserve harmony in the relationship by dealing with the conflict indirectly.

That rule had barred foreign languages to preserve harmony among employees.

A primary motivation within traditional Chinese philosophy is to preserve social harmony.