Sentence examples for a sharp clash from inspiring English sources

What is unfolding before our very eyes is a sharp "clash of perceptions".

WASHINGTON — The Senate engaged in a sharp clash on Thursday over the nature of national security in the modern age as lawmakers debated whether a new arms control treaty with Russia would enhance nuclear stability or dangerously undercut American defenses.

Mr. Bush spoke as word reached Washington of a sharp clash, surely the sharpest so far in this second Persian Gulf war, near Nasiriya, a strategically important city between Basra and Baghdad.

After a sharp clash on Friday between different camps of Democrats on the health care bill, House staff members worked into the weekend in an effort to reach a compromise and bring a bill to the floor before recessing for the summer.

The protesters worried that the killing might be a sign that they are no longer free to express controversial views, or pursue the most outlandish lifestyles, without fearing for their personal safety.Despite the speedy condemnation of the murder by most Muslim organisations, it could still provoke a sharper clash.

In the 1960s large sections of the river border came under dispute between China and what was then the Soviet Union, and a sharp armed clash erupted between the two countries in 1969.

The surprise move seemed the result of a sharp philosophical clash between Mr. Muhammad and his three court-appointed lawyers, whose pretrial motions and remarks suggested they would focus more on avoiding capital punishment for Mr. Muhammad than on winning an acquittal.

"But most families have underlying tensions... creating a sharp, ruinous clash between what we yearn for and what is".

Along the way he experienced the sharp clash between grimy industrial cityscapes and rolling, rural greenery, quickly developing a passion for the latter.

A brashly American tale of love and murder, Jack Beeson's irresistibly dramatic "Lizzie Borden" is a piece that gains strength not only from its famously lurid story (father, stepmother, angry daughter, axe) but also from its sharp clash of neo-Romantic and Expressionist styles.

Some of the most arresting passages in Mr Segev's account lay bare not only the disagreements within Israel's cabinet, but also the sharp clash of culture and mentality between Israel's cautious, elderly leaders and the new state's youthful generals.Their difference in outlook had surfaced earlier, as Israel began to face a wave of Palestinian military raids.