Sentence examples for class strife from inspiring English sources

The city has a bloody history of ethnic and class strife.

The relationship between the two main characters in, 1945 novel of religious crisis and upper class strife, has long been the subject of speculation.

Willa Cather's "Enchanted Bluff" and Theodore Dreiser's "Country Doctor" harked back to a sweet world not yet poisoned by class strife.

In the 1970s, Boston (along with many other northern cities) was a hotbed of racial and class strife as court-ordered bussing removed white and black children from their neighbourhoods and drove them to forcibly integrated schools.

It is as if the country, a week ahead of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, unconsciously recalled an age when politics turned on the axes of class strife and the future of the nation, and arguments raged about the rise of German power and Britain's place in the world.

The Swedish welfare state was created as an explicitly national project, Barker explained to me not only as a response to inequality or class strife but as a way to "rebuild the population" in a country that had been hit by famine and emigration.

But Namredef is also a liar and a literary provocateur, so who can tell what's true? Between Namredef's playgiarism and Federman's auto-bio-graffiti, an eclectic and ribald novel emerges, of family strife, class conflict, and French Jewishness.

Arch left-wing Brit realist Ken Loach walked away with the coveted Palme d'Or for his newest drama of working-class strife, I, Daniel Blake, about a heart-attack victim who can't navigate the shameful labyrinth of the British welfare system to secure the disability benefits he'll require to keep himself afloat.

His guest roster during that decade often nodded toward the Lollapalooza lineup – Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Tori Amos and even the reconstituted Sex Pistols showed up – but bless him for being the first American talkshow host to bring Pulp, then riding high off the class-strife anthem Common People, to television.

To find a film with comparable elements to "Roma's" working-class woman living in a city roiled by turmoil, we turn back to a coal-mining town in Wales — 1941's winner, "How Green Was My Valley". Like "Roma," the older film centers on a family struggling through romantic strife, class clashes and the crushing effects of protest.

It may be dirt poor, but it's more or less equally dirt poor, without the class or tribal strife that has ripped apart so much of Africa.