Sentence examples for ancient conflict from inspiring English sources

A giant frieze in a Maya pyramid casts light on an ancient conflict.

It's a story often used to describe the origins of an ancient conflict.

He knew history's hold on Middle Eastern minds yet dismissed the notion that ancient conflict was insurmountable.

(The production, Steppenwolf's first-ever of a play by Mr. Albee because of an ancient conflict, now resolved, moves to the Arena Stage in Washington after its Chicago run).

Since Osama bin Laden launched the war he describes as the renewal of an ancient conflict between Islam and the "Crusaders and Jews", there have been many initiatives to head off global confrontations involving religions and the cultures they have spawned.

It is a quiet fury born of an ancient conflict between personal identity and public administration.

Israeli and Palestinian peaceniks recalled with wistful irony that the initial breakthroughs in these two ancient conflicts came almost at the same time, in late 1993.

But as Hollywood movies and bitter experience teach us, family dinners are often the site of the greatest family friction, especially on holidays, when even the most grown-up siblings may slip into old roles and reprise ancient conflicts.

Flirtation with English tribalism represents an attempt at breathing new life into ancient conflicts in a world of devolved government - as with the Tory proposal to ban Welsh and Scottish MPs from voting on legislation with an exclusively English application.

Still, even those of us mystified and disturbed by the sway of radical jihadist Islam ought to recognize that, with an infinitesimal number of exceptions, the five million to seven million Muslims estimated to live in the United States have behaved like others of Crèvecoeur's new American men, more interested in getting ahead in their new country than in nurturing ancient conflicts and prejudices.

By a similar way of thinking, sectional disputes over the Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision once appeared to many Americans as a merely topical pretenses, under the cover of which latter-day Normans and Saxons exercised their congenital antipathies, ancient conflicts carried over the Atlantic.