The phrase "as strife" is not commonly used in written English and may not be clear without context.
It could be used in a context where you are comparing something to strife or conflict.
Example: "The negotiations were tense, as strife often clouded the discussions between the two parties."
Alternatives: "like conflict" or "as turmoil."
A woman in Delhi says that, when her Bengali mother-in-law visits, she insists on sleeping in the marital bed with her son; the wife budges over, or decamps to a sofa.The mother-in-law syndrome reflects the skewed power relations between the sexes, as well as strife between the generations.
Just as strife in the former Yugoslav republic confounded first President George Bush and then his successor, Bill Clinton, the bloody crackdown in Syria — underscored by last week's massacre of children and other villagers — has put Mr. Obama in a deeply uncomfortable position.
His speech echoed themes from Fitna (which roughly translates from Arabic as "strife"), his hugely controversial film which juxtaposes the Koran with 9/11 and other atrocities.
It featured innovations such as non-enemy characters (featured somewhat earlier in titles such as Strife) but did not employ power-ups in the traditional sense.
Other games based on the Doom engine such as Heretic and its sequel Hexen by Raven Software as well as Strife by Rogue Entertainment were also developed on NeXT hardware using id's tools.
It took almost as much strife, bickering, bluff and bluster as a strategic nuclear disarmament treaty.
Fathers and daughters are no less at strife until, as in a dream, all is resolved by the magic of Puck and Oberon.
The problem is that they are small and unlikely to make gains against Democrats who will seek to cause as much strife as possible in order to make political gains.
Karachi, a chaotic city of 18 million people, has a history of sectarian and ethnic strife, as well as of violent political clashes and organized crime.
It's not a pacifist's ideal song — skim the full lyrics and you will find the suspicious "liberating strife," as well as the "patriot dream".
Being an iconoclast causes internal strife as much as external.
