Sentence examples for clashes rather than from inspiring English sources

Analysts have suggested that, given the generally dire relations between South Asian countries, water will provoke clashes rather than co-operation.

Every time North Korea ups the ante, the potential for real-time military clashes, rather than exchanges of insults and diplomatic shadow-boxing, grows.

I spoke to Kris and Tom (not their real names), an illegal rave organizer and long-time rave DJ, respectively, from the southwest of England, to get their take on how excessive policing can create clashes rather than prevent them.

Thin strips of Spanish mackerel ($6, $11) were fresh, but they were served over sections of pomelo, a citrus fruit that clashed rather than harmonized with the fish.

With the cut caused by the head clash rather than a punch, the verdict went to the judges and Conlan was declared the winner although the Northern Irishman will have to undergo a medical ahead of Saturday's final against England's Qais Ashfaq.

Blurring these distinctions risks the adoption of foreign and domestic policies that promote a clash rather than co-existence of cultures.

Britney Spears: American Dream is the latest experiment to see if music can capitalise on a world where many people are happier to spend their disposable income on Candy Crush Saga or Clash Royale rather than on music.

There's not a lot of modulation in what he gets from the actors, but there is a lot of energy and a riot of clashing impulses; rather than drama, he generates static, an inchoate force of confusion that never resolves.

While she would not give details of these incidents, she said that most of the troubling incidents dealt with clashes between children rather than problems with the host family.

"It has become clear over the last year that the upheavals in the Islamic and Arab world have become a clash within a civilization rather than a clash between civilizations," Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote recently.

American forces appear to have opened a new phase in the war in Afghanistan with two bombing raids over the weekend that Afghan commanders in the area said were aimed at clashing militia forces rather than the Taliban or Al Qaeda.