harmonization

One point must be very distinctly understood, namely, that what we call harmonization of a melody cannot be admitted as forming any part of folk song.

Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884

I think harmonization is a feature because it's my understanding that the French and Germans have from the beginning of the EEC sought harmonization to prevent conflict.

Should Britain Join the Euro?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

This attempt to conform to other countries is called "harmonization," which is a melodious word for "succumbing to peer pressure."

Gary Lauder: Patently Absurd or: How to Go From the World's Best Patent System to Worse-Than-Most in a Single Step Gary Lauder 2011

Was ever a word so misused as to take two taxes and call it harmonization?

There is No Harmonization to Campbell’s New Tax « Colleen Anderson 2009

David: If music school taught me anything, it's that four-part chorale harmonization is at least as arcane and specialized as anything Schoenberg came up with.

Hub helmer headlines crix confab Matthew Guerrieri 2008

In my view, harmonization is about producing harmony.

Balkinization 2007

This is known as the harmonization of environmental standards.

Trade and the environment 2008

Such coordination, sometimes referred to as harmonization, is sometimes misunderstood as intrusive and prescriptive, but it does not necessarily have to be so.

Cooperative Climate~ Chapter 1 2008

It must be taken into account that it is naturally difficult for the woman to adapt herself to the man in the sexual relationship, that there is a natural unevenness of physical and psychological rhythms, so that there is a need for harmonization, which is impossible without good will, especially on the part of the man, who must carefully observe the reactions of the woman.

Archives de la Stan 2005

There's international harmonization, which is a global effort of governments, and in fact, I worked on some of that when I was with FDA for the global harmonization of inspections.

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