Sentence examples for destructive clash from inspiring English sources

And yet O'Neill wrote with a deep understanding of the destructive clash between the ferocity of human needs and the hard exigencies of life, and held a deep belief in the power of drama to imbue human experience — even the most sad or sordid — with a moving grandeur.

"We won't get into a mutually destructive clash but we will not continue a policy of subjection," said the left-wing Syriza party leader.

"We won't get into a mutually destructive clash but we will not continue a policy of subjection," he said.

And differences in corporate culture can provoke destructive clashes, as happened when the laid-back Swedes of Pharmacia linked arms with the uptight Americans at Upjohn in 1995.

As for neglecting the issue of one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, it has consequences that threaten to collapse the infrastructure, as well as causing destructive clashes, for reasons both sectarian and economic.

It opens a window of hope for an easing of tension between Iran and the west on the strained nuclear file but also on the more urgent issue – the self-destructive clash between Shia and Sunni Islam that is killing thousands in Syria and Iraq and threatens the entire Middle East region.

Nor was Johnston better at managing destructive personality clashes among commanders within the nearby Army of Tennessee, as became evident that winter.

The sundowner effect can be so destructive because of the violent clash of hot air from the Santa Ynez Mountains and the cool air of the Pacific Ocean.

The sundowner effect can be so destructive because of the violent clash of hot air from the Santa Ynez Mountains and the cool air off the Pacific Ocean.

The most recent clash between the two was particularly destructive.

Is this a "clash of civilizations?" Many wars, terrorist attacks, barbaric beheadings, reckless and destructive actions of individuals and institutions later, I wonder if we have invested enough of our intellectual resources in addressing questions like these.