Sentence examples for full-scale clash from inspiring English sources

This was to be the only full-scale clash between the Grand Fleet and the High Seas Fleet.

In Munich, where a full-scale clash between idealistic Wilsonian principles and European Realpolitik occurred, he enthusiastically led the Wilsonian charge.

To prevent a full-scale clash, the elders were planning ways to persuade the extremists from other areas to leave Orakzai, Mr. Miaan said.

In Philadelphia two weeks ago, with the city intent on maintaining an upbeat appearance for the Republican National Convention, large contingents of police clearly worked to avoid full-scale clashes with street demonstrators.

With the city intent on maintaining an upbeat convention gleam, the police clearly worked to avoid the sort of full-scale, baton-wielding clashes with street demonstrators that occurred last winter at the World Trade Organization conference and damaged Seattle's reputation.

Officially, Syria has been in the front line of confrontation with Israel for 64 years, losing the Golan Heights in 1973, the second of three full-scale wars, and repeatedly clashing with Israel in Lebanon.

There had been some naval clashes, but full-scale war might well have been avoided had not Philip, perhaps in a fit of youthful bravado, decided to demonstrate his power over England's mighty Edward I, his vassal, for control of the duchy of Gascony.

India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars over Kashmir and innumerable border clashes, some of which I have witnessed.

It was here in Eastern Slavonia, as the region is known, that Serbs and Croats first clashed more than 12 years ago, even before full-scale war erupted over Croatian independence in June 1991.

They are emblematic of a broader strategic distrust, which if left to fester, may not provoke full-scale war, but could well lead to localised armed clashes.

An accidental clash between the Dutch and English fleets led to full-scale war in which a greatly improved English navy won the upper hand.