Instead, the lot of the everyman and everywoman forms only a backdrop to the story of would-be rulers and their clashes for power.
Burchill has some good lines, including a swipe at Diane Abbott, with whom Phillips clashed, for "speaking power to truth in order to advance her career".
The clash of power is between Elizabeth, Queen of England (Harriett Walter and Mary Stuartt, Queen of Scotland (Janet McTeer).
In many ways, his victory is the latest and perhaps final clash in a battle for power and influence that has lasted decades between Mr. Khamenei and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who, while loyal to the Islamic form of government, wanted a more pragmatic approach to the economy, international relations and social conditions at home.
In effect, his mighty lust for power clashed with his mighty artistic inclinations and abilities.
Farouq got the sahwa label (the plural is sahwat) after clashing with Jabhat al-Nusra in areas where both vie for power.
Tuz Khurmato, the city where the clash occurred, is of mixed ethnicity, where Turkmens, Arabs and Kurds compete for power.
With depressing inevitability, clashes have broken out between these myriad militias as they clamour for power.
With depressing inevitability, clashes have broken out between these myriad militias as they clamor for power.
Struggles for power and wealth and, secondarily, sex and love occupy his fiction as East and West and male and female clash.
