Sentence examples for less a clash of from inspiring English sources

On telly, there is less a clash of civilisations than a capitulation of civilisation.

And it will not be a metaphysical one: the very complicated relationship with China is much less a clash of worldviews than of interests.

The resulting contest has been less a clash of personalities or radically competing visions and more a mad dash in search of votes.

Their most doughty opponent, it turns out, is the amorphous "spirit of '76", which makes the book less a clash of titans than an exercise in shadow boxing.Mr Ellis's strategy of building his narrative around four exemplary men certainly makes for more compelling reading than delving into tax rolls or birth registers.

A matchup between Mr. Obama and Mr. Giuliani, who was forged in the racial crucible of New York's police brutality nightmares of the 1990s, or between Mr. Obama and Mitt Romney, who was shaped by a religion that didn't give blacks equal membership until 1978, would be less a clash of races than of centuries.

What is transpiring today is less a "clash of civilizations" than a consequence of the imperfect births of two nations born of the same parent, separated at birth, and forced to deal with the consequences of their compelled reconciliation.

Denton calls the Hogan trial "nothing less than a clash of cultures".

The fighting, flaring almost nightly, and sometimes daily as well, reflects the chaotic nature of the conflict, which can seem less like a clash of national aspirations than an evocation of "Lord of the Flies".

The scene I stumbled upon, however, was something less than a clash of titans: a bunch of guys (and a few women), varying widely in age and personal grooming habits, poring over pages of random numbers and long lists of words.

The emotional response to 9/11 connected at an intellectual level to a narrative fed both by Al Qaeda and by some outspoken American commentators: that the two sides were engaged in nothing less than a clash of civilizations, a fight to the death over life and liberty.

This, Mr. Lewis wrote in 1990 in a celebrated essay in The Atlantic Monthly (which introduced the catch phrase the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington then made famous) "is no less than a clash of civilizations -- the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present and the worldwide expansion of both".