Sentence examples for growing clashes from inspiring English sources

A3 Curbing Violence in Indonesia President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia said he might have to seek international assistance to halt 18 months of sectarian violence in the eastern Maluku Islands, where rogue army units have taken sides in the growing clashes.

The country has been on edge amid a growing clash over opposing interpretations of the Constitution.

But a shared interest in combating Taliban attacks is not enough to prevent a growing clash, particularly over prisoner releases.

Nonetheless, he believes two other factors — a growing clash of interests and deep ideological and political differences — will prove more decisive and will make the relationship more tense and competitive.

But in a case that highlights the growing clash between the federal government and those states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use, the United States Justice Department indicted Mr. Davies six months ago on charges of cultivating marijuana, after raiding two dispensaries and a warehouse filled with nearly 2,000 marijuana plants.

"By September 1965," Mr. Beschloss writes, "the contours of the rest of Johnson's term were in place -- the deepening chasm in Southeast Asia, campus and street demonstrations at home, riots in major American cities, Johnson's diminishing clout in Congress, his growing clash with Robert Kennedy".

Tensions were growing, but clashes had not yet broken out, he said.

But Mr. Wahid, who was elected last year, has seemed unable to control growing religious clashes.

But others warn of a growing culture clash between conservative Islam and Bosnia's avowed secularism in an already fragile state.

Concern is now growing that further clashes could lead to a repeat of the 2008 Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq, where some PKK fighters are based.

Vast territories stretch out unrivalled across rocky plains; elsewhere, convoluted borders hint at centuries-old disputes as these empires grow and clash at the rate of one millimetre a year.