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discordant - Members of a pair showing different, rather than similar, characteristics. [FAO]

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Follow-up - Playing music severely degrades network transfer ...  -  21 Aug 2007
ZDNetEvery *ding*. every *donk*, every wok being hit by a spoon, every bit of discordant piano has the effect of flatlining network transfers briefly.

Post-referendum 'custodial democracy'  -  21 Aug 2007
Bangkok Post,By THITINAN PONGSUDHIRAK Thai voters have spoken but their voices are discordant. The telling indicator from the referendum results was not the numbers who

Naira: The Soludo solution  -  21 Aug 2007
Daily Sun,Instead of the discordant tunes coming from different parts of the country, the way to go, I believe, is for the government and our economists to clinically

Indie group finds freedom in success  -  21 Aug 2007
Vancouver Sun,...is filled with unadulterated buoyant pop songs that make much of the material on 2005's Twin Cinema sound angry and almost discordant in comparison.

Picastro Hope To Get Lucky With New Album  -  21 Aug 2007
Chart Attack,...“It’s discordant and dissonant, but it all blends together in an almost harmonious way.�? Album cut "Towtruck" was used in a recent BBC One documentary about

Harper, Bush agree to disagree on Arctic as summit ends  -  21 Aug 2007
Canada East,It was the one discordant note on a day characterized by back-slapping camaraderie and agreement to hammer out a series of protocols on trade, security and

Feel heat of Havana during concert series  -  21 Aug 2007
Nanaimo News Bulletin,...undergoing extensive training in a unique, centuries-old singing style – striking for its use of distinctive timbre and discordant harmonies.

Review: Wilco hasn't lost its edge  -  21 Aug 2007
Vancouver Sun,It was the kind of show where unexpected, discordant digressions broke into soft ballads and the songs so familiar from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot were cleverly

Discordant notes  -  Aug 15, 2007
Globe and Mail,AP KRAKOW, Poland — A priceless manuscript at a Polish library shows how Mozart wrote down his Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major — neat, small notes,

South East legistlators at war over ministerial slot  -  Aug 20, 2007
Nigerian Tribune,As a result of the discordant tunes emanating from different camps in the battle to produce the remaining minister from the zone, President Umaru Yar’ Adua

Conception in HIV discordant couples  -  Aug 6, 2007
Vanguard,Both women are active members of support groups for HIV discordant couples. Their story is peculiar and elicits public interest because of the

NIGERIA: Supporting discordant couples to stay together  -  Jul 27, 2007
Plus News,His marriage is one of many in Nigeria that have broken down due to the sero-discordant status of couples, in which one individual is HIV positive and the

Manifest disease and motor cortex reactivity in twins discordant ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),We compared motor cortex reactivity within schizophrenia-discordant twin pairs, thereby controlling for a portion of the genetic influences on brain

Lagos Trade Fair Complex concessioning: Traders sing discordant tunes  -  Jul 26, 2007
Daily Sun,By PRECIOUS NJOKU Traders under the aegis of Balogun Traders Association last Tuesday sang discordant tunes as they disagreed over the concessioning of the

Uganda: Involve Us in Aids Gel Trials - Sex Workers  -  Aug 20, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Sweet Baibie is a discordant mother of a 15-year-old girl who is in Senior Two. Symon Wandiembe, an official in charge of microbicide trials at Masaka

Deals on energy, spying may be close  -  Aug 3, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),Congress stumbled toward its August recess on a discordant note Friday. Among the developments: The Senate voted late Friday to temporarily expand the

Pirates out-played but beat Ajax  -  Aug 20, 2007
Dispatch Online,Picture: GALLO IMAGES SOMETIMES referred to as The Sea Robbers, a discordant Orlando Pirates dutifully stole away with a 2-0 victory at Athlone Stadium

Ford Cottage site homes get OK  -  Aug 14, 2007
this is hampshire.net,...application by Fenchurch Investments Lim-ited was refused because the proposed development's height, size and design was unsympathetic and discordant'.

Iraq war lures city manager from job  -  Aug 10, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,Hold your jokes about trading the famously discordant politics of Port Richey for the discordant politics of Iraq. Calhoun says his decision is rooted only

ABC strategy is still relevant  -  Aug 7, 2007
New Vision,There is also the problem of discordant couples which had hitherto not been given much attention. Should married people living in a discordant relationship

Involve us in Aids gel trials - sex workers  -  Aug 20, 2007
The Monitor, Uganda,Sweet Baibie is a discordant mother of a 15-year-old girl who is in Senior Two. Symon Wandiembe, an official in charge of microbicide trials at Masaka

IAS: PrEP and timed intercourse reduces HIV transmission risk ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
Aidsmap,...“The number of HIV-discordant couples worldwide practising unprotected sex for the purpose of conception could number in the millions,�? wrote Dr Pietro

Rated or hated: singles reviews for August 20th  -  Aug 20, 2007
Soundgenerator.com,Tight rhythms, lyrics with a modicum of intelligence, and a discordant tune which energises rather than anaesthetises; it's very good, but not quite as good

Brits ask US to free 5 more from Gitmo  -  Aug 7, 2007
United Press International...of the Camp David summit between President Bush and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai Monday, there was only a hint of a single discordant note.

Katainen Opposes Budget Criticism  -  Aug 6, 2007
YLE News,Discordant voices were also heard from within the government. Minister of Transport Anu Vehviläinen is for example demanding that south-east Finland's

A Bollywood star behind bars  -  Aug 18, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),There is only one discordant note in this typical symphony of modern media saturation. And not for a transgression of the Paris Hilton, "I forgot my license

Council supports plea from gypsy site family  -  Aug 20, 2007
News & Star,He was first refused planning permission to use the plot in April last year on the grounds that it would “represent a discordant feature to the detriment of

NW Stakeholders, BPA show no clear path to compromise  -  Aug 3, 2007
EastOregonian.info (subscription),By AP PORTLAND (AP) - Energy stakeholders from across the Northwest expressed passionate but discordant feelings Wednesday night about how to resolve a top

PRE -view  -  Aug 1, 2007
Only Magazine,Brilliantly discordant punk noise and a dangerously uninhibited singer make Pre an absolute spectacle. They have stuff out on Love Pump, Force Field,

Surprise! Summer isn't necessarily dumber  -  Aug 18, 2007
Globe and Mail,...unsympathetic for some, but the fact that this Moroccan did not learn to read or write until he was 21 goes some way to explaining the discordant style.

Should the Mechanic be saved?  -  Aug 18, 2007
Baltimore Sun,It's the same condescending attitude that asked us "common people" to look beyond the discordant, alienating quality of much of modern art and architecture

Mother Sheehan: Democrats are the party of war, slavery, and ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
Hot Air,That discordant reference to the Federal Reserve makes me wonder: assuming she doesn’t run for president herself, might St. Cindy’s endorsement next fall

Childhood Sun Exposure Linked to Reduced MS Risk  -  Aug 1, 2007
Medscape (subscription)For the purposes of the study, only twins who were discordant for disease and sun exposure were included in the analysis. Of the 79 pairs of twins,

Another Tack: Niso, Nadia and others  -  Aug 17, 2007
Jerusalem Post,Hillel Weiss's discordant and tasteless tunes. The compelling diversion, amplified so assiduously, diminished all else - even revelations that funds Israel

Question of Sons’ Choices Dogs Romney Campaign  -  Aug 16, 2007
New York Times,...days later to say he misspoke and injected a discordant note into his otherwise triumphant few days after he won the state’s Republican straw poll.

Guerrilla marketing: the art of being vague  -  Aug 16, 2007
Los Angeles Times,...and then a quick flash of discordant images. It ended by directing viewers to www.chuckssecret.com. The commercial was a come-on for a new show,

On top of everything else, not very good at its job  -  Aug 16, 2007
Economist,...one result of which was the demotion of the CIA and its director in an attempt to co-ordinate America's often discordant intelligence outfits.

Finding Mr. Wright  -  Aug 19, 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,..."Frank was his own society, a one-man band of transcendental harmony and discordant cymbals," Horan writes in a sentence with phraseology more felicitous

Barak: Defending the refusal of orders threatens democracy  -  Aug 15, 2007
Ha'aretz,The defense minister also addressed the current highly-publicized and discordant dispute between Supreme Court President Doti Beinisch and Justice Minister

My brilliant career  -  Aug 18, 2007
The Observer,The one discordant note is a huge blackboard which has all the usual stuff about phoning the plumber, fixing the lawn mower, but also a complicated list of

`Triumph of Love' just misses the mark  -  Aug 15, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,All the principals must swallow their pride in "The Triumph of Love," a symphony of sighs and poetry that ends on a discordant note of ambiguity.

Iraqi Summit Set to Begin  -  Aug 13, 2007
Washington Post,Tuesday's meeting might be the last chance for the discordant political groups to reconcile before the Sept. 15 deadline for the US commander in Iraq to

Will her latest on-air gaffes be a wake-up call for Sarah Kennedy?  -  Aug 18, 2007
Daily Mail,...ill-fated union in her 20s to an Army officer, followed by a "discordant" 11-year relationship with a businessman), McGlynn is a husband in all but name

Police Reforms at Sixty  -  Aug 17, 2007
Mainstream,The meeting, however, ended with very strong discordant notes from more than one State. The Chief Ministers, including those credited with good and

Ajai Shukla: Six decades of looking away  -  Aug 13, 2007
Business Standard,...doing in the outlying, the unseen and the less affluent parts of the country, the party will continue to be spoilt by the discordant shadow of alienation.

PDP Members Urged to Embrace Reconciliation  -  Aug 17, 2007
This Day (subscription),...stressing that since the South-east was noted for it discordant tunes among themselves, they should embrace peace and reconciliation now.

US and the Kurds / Washington has forgotten them  -  Aug 12, 2007
Ha'aretz,But after four years of American presence in Iraq, the amicable dialogue between the US and the Iraqi Kurds is growing increasingly discordant.

No one is demonizing Eritrea  -  Aug 17, 2007
Garowe Online,Anyone who tries to silence even the most discordant voices among us cannot be doing the country any favor. Whether it is SamB or Tseggai Isaac,

New York Magazine Misses The Point On Adoption  -  Aug 17, 2007
Huffington Post,New York mag justifies dredging up the dated and offensive question about how much parents can really love their adopted kids by noting the "discordant

Short Takes  -  Aug 12, 2007
Boston Globe,Unfortunately, for mysterious reasons he felt compelled not just to gild the lily but to aluminum-side it with discordant shards borrowed from other

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