The mayor conceded that there had been tensions in the past between Albany and the city.
A choice between future and past, between light and dark, between people and corporate profit.
A dozen porpoises swam past, between the near ship and the shore.
"But you can tell there's some sort of past between them," Giacchino said.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
"A completely artificial division has been made in the past between domestic and religious, recreation and ritual," Leary said.
But at root this is now a cultural war – between modernity and the past, between tolerance and brutality, between unity and division.
The cottages on West Meadow Beach, north of Stony Brook, face west across an inlet where the tide rushes past between Stony Brook Harbor and the open Sound.
Connections have been drawn in the past between Islamist hardliners in Malaysia and Indonesia and the Philippines-based terror group, Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaida affiliate.
The Philippines has a longstanding claim over parts of the island of Borneo, and there have been tensions in years past between the two governments.
Although the general was picked by Barack Obama for command in Afghanistan, there have been skirmishes in the past between him and the White House over operations.
