Sentence examples for conflicting powers from inspiring English sources

Once multiple divinities are discarded, along with their rivalries and conflicting powers, religion is concerned with just two poles: the human and the divine.

Not only do the two governments have overlapping and sometimes conflicting powers over environmental issues, but also most of the land that the pipeline would cross is owned by the provincial government.

Do conflicting powers believe that such attacks will advance their aims better than alternatives, that they are worth the effort to develop, that they are worth the risks of retaliation?

Conflicting powers of opposites, including those of elemental bodies, make possible the world and all its variety; without that conflict we would have only lifeless uniformity.

Explain to students that the United Nations has offered a neutral forum for these countries, as well as the conflicting powers of the Taliban and Northern Alliance inside Afghanistan, to present their positions on the current military action in an emergency summit (to be held in a future class).

That Haqqani survived as long as he did was a tribute to his ability to bridge the divide between Pakistan's several, often conflicted power centres.

This is a magnificent tale of family conflict, power and greed.

6 (Avon, $4.95). Romance, family conflict, power and greed mark a woman's coming-of-age in 18th- century England and France.

He currently conducts research on optimality of motivational dynamics in conflict, power asymmetries and conflict, intractable conflict, multicultural conflict, justice and conflict, environmental conflict, mediation dynamics, and sustainable peace.

Similarly, the "personal is political" in part because private institutions such as families often operate, like the polity, through conflict, power hierarchies, and violence.

He conducts research on motivational dynamics in conflict, power asymmetries and conflict, intractable conflict, multicultural conflict, injustice and conflict, adaptive mediation dynamics, and sustainable peace.