It will be a massive clash and we will be up for it".
It turned into a massive clash with the police: 450 arrests; tear gas; scores injured, including some police officers.
At first, Wal-Mart's expatriate managers suffered from a massive clash of cultures, which was not helped by their refusal to learn to speak German.
"There is a massive clash between theory and practice," said Nikolaos Stavrakakis, a spokesman for Greece's university professors' union, known by its acronym, Posdep.
So it's fitting that the photographer Larry Towell begins his monumental new book, "Afghanistan," more or less where Ishmael's "programme of Providence" left off: the endpapers of the book feature an etching that depicts a massive clash of horsemen in the high mountain passes of the Hindu Kush during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
And of course there's a massive clash of egos, and different modes of politics: Farage with his European Parliament tirades and LBC phone-in; Robinson with Facebook livestreams and his desire to make a British version of Infowars.
More than six months later, with tens of thousands of university students still waiting, the tale of the Aakash looks a bit like an Indian soap opera, complete with a convoluted storyline, multiple characters, and massive personality clashes.
Yet Viktor Yanukovych fled the country after massive violent clashes in Kiev that killed more than 80 people.
So the gameplay was all about building and accomplishing and achieving something until the point where you have these massive heroes clashing against one another.
The struggle opened on September 5 when King Joachim Murat's French forces met Konovnitzyn's Russians in a massive cavalry clash, the Russians eventually retreating to the Kolorzkoi Cloister when their flank was threatened.
