Harmonizing

In the name of harmonizing our laws with other countries, Congress is about to dramatically diminish the patent protections offered to American innovators over the history of our Republic. ❋ Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (2011)

Through WPA reports, YMCA secretaries were successful in harmonizing treatment between different prison camps within the same country by making the Ministries of War aware of problems. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He meant that the Supreme Court plays an important role in harmonizing conflicting constitutional interpretations about the constitutionality of state statutes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Multiple sources of background noise "harmonizing" -- who's studied this, and what did they find? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Austria opposes raising retirement ages, while Ireland rejects the idea of harmonizing the corporate tax base, both measures Germany had advocated. ❋ Bernd Radowitz (2011)

He recalls harmonizing with his parents and older sister Sally, also a musician. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

Their harmonizing is a delight to hear, along with the fine guitar-based arrangements, on contains a generous selection of mostly familiar tunes played by George ❋ Unknown (2009)

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) will chair the conference committee charged with "harmonizing" the House and Senate bills and has provisionally named conferees, largely on the basis of seniority. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MarketWatch points out one component of any new circuit-breaker system, "harmonizing" them across all the exchanges: ❋ Unknown (2010)

PFCs work by "harmonizing" the flow of current making the interchange of energy between power source and device more efficient. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Highly educated and full of a confidence created by its success in transforming postwar France, the French political class has worked for what it calls the "harmonizing" of European policies in one area after another. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When Paul Martin signed us on to the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the talk turned to "harmonizing" regulations with the U.S. and Mexico in the name of increased efficiency, this is exactly what that talk was about. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Instead the goal is "harmonizing" hundreds of rules and regulations from health care, to trucking, to energy, to cut red tape and make companies more competitive within the three nations. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But while Eurocrats may talk about "harmonizing" their immigration policies, few expect much concrete progress. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Today's true believers are conjoined with (not to mention employed by) our rapacious ruling elites – i.e., those whose corporate multinational and Trilateral social programs are based on "harmonizing" First World citizens into third-world status, and removing any form of effective democracy via the treaty powers of an imperial presidency and unelected trade representatives. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The proposed changes, in a House bill co-sponsored by Cannon, also tweak the law in other areas, such as "harmonizing" U.S. law with that of other countries and attempting to curb expensive lawsuits over infringement. ❋ Peter Zura (2005)

Mesmer's own description, in 1766, of the "harmonizing" effects of animal gravity clearly anticipates the predominant symbol of the relationship between individual and cosmic consciousness that will come to prevail in Romantic writing: our bodies are harmonized, not in a uniform and monotonous manner, but as a musical instrument furnished with several strings, the exact tone resonat [ing] ... in unison with a given tone. ❋ Unknown (1998)

This is quite in accord, not only with the universally "harmonizing" tendencies of Mesmeric theory, but with the actual circumstances in which Mesmer's healing arts were performed. ❋ Unknown (1998)