Sentence examples for A strife from inspiring English sources

A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles".

This agreement ended a strife of 50 years, during which pamphleteers on both sides had revived every kind of claim to supremacy and God-given authority.

Moreover, Heraclitus also postulates that all observable changes result from a "strife" of opposing forces to overcome each other, thus creating transformative power as the ruling condition of existence: "war is the father of all and king of all" (Fr. 212).

He writes that "the graver had a strife / With nature to outdo the life" and that he has "hit his face" accurately.

There is a strife brewing between people who claim vital stories are being overlooked by the media vs. those in media with the prerogative of deciding what stories to cover.

His early plays span the time period from his first production in 1728 to the beginning of the Actor's Rebellion of 1733, a strife within the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane that divided the theatrical community and threatened to disrupt London stage performances.

It is credited with keeping the peace in what was once a strife-torn region.

In The Overwhelming he revisits a strife-torn Africa, more bluntly and to less effect.

After seeing the movie twice — that's a full five hours of immersion in a strife-torn 19th-century France — I still feel torn.

The economy of Sudan, a strife-torn country with an authoritarian government, began to unravel after South Sudan split off as a separate country two years ago, taking nearly 75 percent of the oil revenue the two countries had shared.

- in the space of a few months, including Robert Falls's revelatory production at the Goodman Theater, which set the play in a strife-torn contemporary landscape that suggested the Balkan conflict.