Sentence examples for outright clashes from inspiring English sources

Asean has requested that China start formal talks on a code of conduct to avoid tensions sparking outright clashes.

Sometimes the tensions erupted in outright clashes, as was recorded in the following report from last December that was described as an "enemy action".

Sometimes the tensions erupted in outright clashes, as was recorded in the following report from last December that was described as an "enemy action". The "enemy" in this case was the Afghan National Security Force.

But British ministers are keen to avoid outright clashes at the moment, not least because Ian Watmore, a senior Whitehall figure Mr Cameron initially favoured, recently resigned amid rumours of disagreements over the reforms.If one goal of the rethink is to ginger up officials another is to make the system more transparent and civil servants themselves less shadowy figures.

Small wonder, then, that memories and narratives often differ — if not outright clash — depending on whom they belong to and whom they serve.

And outright military clashes, no matter how limited they initially may seem to be, contain the wholly unacceptable risk of escalating into a major war--and even a nuclear war.

The intergenerational divide between Generation X, those born between 1965 and 1977, and the millennials, born after that,  is increasingly evident in the workplace, where once revered older workers and novice younger employees are less likely to form mentor-mentee relationships and more likely to clash outright when they don't see eye-to-eye.

There is outright satire in the culture clash of Japanese tourists and Brontë industry: Yukiko's first impression is "how very brown everything is … London and Leeds had nothing like this level of brownness.

Where the dawn of 2011 saw near-universal agreement over the imminent success of Jessie J and the Vaccines, this year's predictions are a cacophony of clashing opinions and outright disagreement.

Cooper, who is the only British boxer to have won three Lonsdale belts outright, is best remembered for his two famous clashes with Ali in the 1960s.

Other trial lawyers said yesterday that the motions for separate trials reflected divergent legal strategies, a personality clash between the two lawyers or outright errors by Mr. Sachs.