Sentence examples for element of strife from inspiring English sources

Anderson acknowledged that Heraclitus' emphasis on the element Fire might be read as a typically Ionian response to the question "what is the world made of", but the more important theme is his treatment of fire purely as process, as transaction and exchange, as the paradigm element of strife and harmony.

What he valued was with me all along, underneath the element of strife.

Ken Menkhaus, a Somalia expert from Davidson College in North Carolina, says some kind of "appointocracy" is once again inevitable.Mr Mohamud's biggest success so far has been to bring in an element of federalism without worsening the strife.

Cattrall chose the Eris element of the character's name, for the Greek goddess of strife, which was Vulcanised by the addition of the "Val" at the behest of director Nicholas Meyer.

These elements and forces are eternal and equally balanced, although the influence of Love and of Strife waxes and wanes (B6 and B17, lines 14 20).

Still, this phase begins with separation of elements, as the first lines of the fragment show, and so it involves some influence of Strife.

This is the extreme point in the domination of Strife; but it is not, as on the traditional interpretation, a total, acosmic separation of elements.

But signs of strife were there.

/ Has it been so full of strife?

Maybe thoughts of strife were not so distant after all.

The level of strife had risen with each successive rebellion.