Sentence examples for sharp clashes from inspiring English sources

But there were sharp clashes over Mr. Gorton's plan to privatize some Social Security investments and over campaign finance reform.

Racine doggedly pursued all three, though he had sharp clashes with the third group, who were mostly friends of his great rival, the older dramatist Pierre Corneille.

But there were at least two short, sharp clashes between police officers and demonstrators, where the officers used pepper spray and what appeared to be a form of anti-riot gas or smoke grenades and charged into protesters beating them with long sticks.

What is unfolding before our very eyes is a sharp "clash of perceptions".

Along the way he experienced the sharp clash between grimy industrial cityscapes and rolling, rural greenery, quickly developing a passion for the latter.

Mr. Bush spoke as word reached Washington of a sharp clash, surely the sharpest so far in this second Persian Gulf war, near Nasiriya, a strategically important city between Basra and Baghdad.

WASHINGTON — The Senate engaged in a sharp clash on Thursday over the nature of national security in the modern age as lawmakers debated whether a new arms control treaty with Russia would enhance nuclear stability or dangerously undercut American defenses.

Some of the most arresting passages in Mr Segev's account lay bare not only the disagreements within Israel's cabinet, but also the sharp clash of culture and mentality between Israel's cautious, elderly leaders and the new state's youthful generals.Their difference in outlook had surfaced earlier, as Israel began to face a wave of Palestinian military raids.

A brashly American tale of love and murder, Jack Beeson's irresistibly dramatic "Lizzie Borden" is a piece that gains strength not only from its famously lurid story (father, stepmother, angry daughter, axe) but also from its sharp clash of neo-Romantic and Expressionist styles.

After a sharp clash on Friday between different camps of Democrats on the health care bill, House staff members worked into the weekend in an effort to reach a compromise and bring a bill to the floor before recessing for the summer.

The sharp clash between medieval scholastic learning and the new, reform-minded humanist learning reinforced and merged with his long-standing attraction to the putatively ancient wisdom that he discovered in the prisci theologi.