Sentence examples for underlying clash from inspiring English sources

But better relations with Europe are still hostage to an underlying clash of ideas between the two sides, above all the fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini authorising the assassination of a British writer, Salman Rushdie.An EU delegation in Tehran last month pressed Iran to abolish a $2.5m bounty offered by a religious organisation for killing Mr Rushdie.

Sammy Wilson, the DUP's education spokesman and a former grammar-school teacher, admits that this has muddied the case for hanging on to selection, as many unionists prefer.There are other problems too, most of them stemming from the underlying clash of political allegiances, poisoned by sectarianism and years of bloodshed.

The underlying clash is as old as the American republic, pitting economic protectionism against freedom of commerce.

Underlying the clash of approaches are American and British concerns that Iraq could implode if power is transferred too quickly.

Underlying this clash of perceptions is an often messy, but ultimately positive American process: a contentious way of defining, and redefining, what it means to be an American.

The uprising occurred after a century of British rule in India and its underlying cause was a clash of faiths.

"There's always a clash, an underlying tension, between politics, which is basically trying to keep the status quo, and literature, which is constantly questioning the status quo," Nafisi says.

My goal was to bring to life the ancient Chinese legend of Lady White Snake, in a post-postmodern style, using multi-cultural perspectives and poetry fragments, and set in New York City, to bring out underlying dichotomies in a clash of oppositions, and push the tale's theme of metamorphosis to its conclusions in a chthonic catharsis to create a new whole.

Competition for turf appears to underlie last week's clash.

As Mr Sarkozy conceded this week, the principle of non-interference sometimes clashes with another underlying principle that he claims for French diplomacy, which is to support freedom and democracy.Consider recent events in three former French territories: Côte d'Ivoire, Tunisia and Niger.

Underlying all of this is a clash of cultures: that of Hollywood, with its colossal paychecks, and the pinched, underfunded world of ballet.