Sentence examples for clashing forces from inspiring English sources

Today, technology entrepreneurship and the arts are often characterized as clashing forces in society.

Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell University became the battleground for the clashing forces of racial justice, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law.

To believe in "Sleeping Beauty," you need a coherent world onstage, one in which the clashing forces of good and evil can feel grandly, eternally truthful.

In these various schemes of religious belief, there is a unitary something that transcends the many clashing forces in the world and in fact transcends even the gods.

Even within some countries a split will be increasingly apparent, typically between the parts benefiting from China's boom and slow-growing bits; Australia will be a prime example of such a two-speed economy.Look at politics, and you will often see two clashing forces, too.

"I think the fight over an open internet is today's version of a battle between open and closed that has been raging now for 2,300 years," he says, sketching a sweeping tale of clashing forces dating back to the third century BC, taking in the burning of the library at Alexandria, the invention of the number zero, the dark ages and the impact of the printing press.

Recent clashes forced the country's parliament to move to Tobruk.

A long-running border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has flared into deadly clashes, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.

Ms Herzigova was invited to open the event after a scheduling clash forced Joanna Lumley to withdraw.

The violence moved westwards to another set of temples in April, before shifting back to Preah Vihear, as widespread clashes forced tens of thousands to flee.

The Fifth Squad had suffered heavily during the clashes, forcing some to disperse, while others lay around Marina, screaming in agony.