There are numerous cases reported of wildfires started by hot metal particles from clashing power-lines, or generated by machines, grinding and welding.
The sounds of the lame-duck session of Congress represent more than two parties clashing over power and philosophy.
Each time rebel and regime infantries clashed, air power was decisive.
Instead, the lot of the everyman and everywoman forms only a backdrop to the story of would-be rulers and their clashes for power.
Personality clashes and power struggles between Mr Zardari and the leader of the PML (N), Nawaz Sharif, are almost certain to take place.
Jos is at the heart of the Nigeria's volatile Middle Belt, where clashes over power and resources have often been cloaked in the guise of religious violence.
The military intervention worsened the political situation, as the army itself split along ethnic lines, its officers clashed over power, and the instigators and leaders of the January coup were accused of favouring Igbo domination.
It is a story recalled by its main players in a series of remarkably frank conversations as one of unlikely alliances and bitter divisions, a clash of power, identity and the deepest questions of nationhood.
If the House of Saud suddenly falls, as did the Shah, religious revolutionaries of many shades will clash for power and seize the country's massive stock of armaments.
Chen cannot help but involve himself in the case (and not just because the woman involved is rather attractive).The thrill of these books is not so much the plot, or even the characters, but the dynamic setting, which inevitably sees a clash between power and the people.
MY PRINT column this week looks at the politics of House of Lords reform, and suggests that this dry-sounding subject is actually a rather important clash about power and its transmission.SOME years back the BBC enjoyed a surprise hit with a spoof chat-show presented by Mrs Merton, a fictional northern housewife whose trick was skewering guests with mock-naive questions.
