perennial conflicts

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

This is summer at the Jersey Shore, a low-cost escape for millions of people from several states, most of them unaware that they have stepped into perennial conflicts over how they can use the beaches.

Filmed as a BBC Play of the Month in 1977 to mark the centenary of Barker's birth, it has tended to surface on stage just as the perennial conflicts that it highlights come to the fore again.

The candidates largely agree on problems facing the country — income inequality, an economic recovery that has left millions still anxious or underemployed, perennial conflicts in the Middle East.

America could impose secondary sanctions against the smugglers, but this would put it in perennial conflict with many countries, confounding other foreign-policy initiatives.

But Hare pins down the fact that, in Labour, there seems a perennial conflict, as much personal as ideological, between two embattled opponents.

In the minds of Islamic radicals such as Osama bin Laden, all such episodes are slotted neatly into a pattern of perennial conflict between the world of the believers and that of the unbelievers.

Mr da Silva's promises are more ambitious: they include streamlining the byzantine and growth-stifling tax system, resolving the perennial conflict between landless peasants and rural landowners, and doubling the real value of the minimum wage.

In France, it has been claimed that only about one director in five on the boards of public companies is truly independent.Such a structure may help to resolve the perennial conflict between owners and managers.

Ms. Bitton's off-screen voice is audibly sympathetic with the activists and disdainful of the Israelis, who are mindful of the international condemnation prompted by the death but stoic, resigned to the consequences of a perennial conflict.

For him, the museum is more than a collection; it's a statement about America, particularly its perennial conflict between authoritarianism and anarchy, or what he called "moral certainty" and freedom.

And Syria has become the most important battleground, in Saudi eyes, for the perennial conflict with Iran, which is seen here as almost an existential threat to the kingdom because of its goal of exporting its own brand of revolutionary Shiite Islam across the Muslim world.