restore harmony

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Once again, the implicit assumption is that the lower-status person has a duty to maintain or restore harmony.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

But that novelty alone is unlikely to restore harmony in Harry's relationships with Charles or with his older brother Prince William, now the heir to the throne.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2022

A man struggles to break the thieving habits of his kleptomaniac wife and restore harmony to their marriage.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020

They got their name from their belief that government should use the law to end civil disorder and restore harmony.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

If there is any disorder, this worthy Scotchman can, by a word, restore harmony, of which we might give many instances.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin