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But in spite of her deep commitment to women’s rights, she clashed with white leaders of the movement.
He had frequently clashed with Harvey at Board meetings, and resented the spirit of change which Milk personified for many.
Perhaps this was true of the times, but Finch's presentation (though not campy) has cartoonish leanings and nostalgic overtures that don't express anything more than what most people already realize: the cops were corrupt, the gays were not saints, and they clashed.
The dancing/elaborate costumes clashed horribly with the drab scenery.
Israeli and Iranian forces have already clashed in southern Syria, and Netanyahu’s government is now threatening further action in response to reports that Russia may furnish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles.
For centuries, the Protestant and Catholic tribes had intermittently clashed, and over a period of three decades – a time euphemistically known as “the Troubles” – terrorism had claimed more than 3,000 lives and tens of thousands of injuries.
Meanwhile, French troops, with the support of other European Union members – notably Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Sweden – are now deployed for putatively humanitarian reasons in the Central African Republic and Chad, where they have already clashed with Sudanese government forces.
Participants at the G7 summit reportedly clashed over issues like climate change and the possibility of readmitting Russia.
In 1969, Honduras and Salvador clashed after a qualification game for the World Cup.
Since then, nationalism has repeatedly clashed with the region’s enduring mosaic of civil life, fueling one conflict after another.
Throughout its history, Europe saw countless bloody conflicts; peoples and states clashed, with the Czech lands often the bloody crossroads of these battles.
The interests of the West and Nigeria repeatedly clashed, but Nigeria always stood its ground.
And French national-security officials, who refuse to budge on non-proliferation, have clashed with those who claim that a nuclear-armed Iran could enhance regional stability by counterbalancing Israel, the Middle East’s sole nuclear power.
In fact, his fight against state aid clashed with normal Italian practice.
In recent weeks, Israel has clashed with Iranian forces in southern Syria to show that it will not allow Iran to establish a presence there.
When voters’ expectations clashed with the new socioeconomic reality, they took to the streets to protest.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Riksbank clashed with Sweden’s government over the management of credit.
The Arab uprisings either clashed with their commitment to the inviolability of national sovereignty, or stoked their fear that “humanitarian intervention” would merely be another tool of Northern dominance.
In fact, Kenya-backed Jubaland forces clashed with Somali government troops in Kismayo earlier this year.
In April, President Petro Poroshenko ousted Yatsenyuk, with whom he had clashed, and replaced him with an ally, former Speaker of Parliament Volodymyr Groysman.
We clashed once.
Armenians and Azerbaijanis have not clashed militarily for more than a decade and a half.
Moreover, Al Qaeda-linked jihadists based in the area surrounding Mount Chaambi, near the Algerian border, have repeatedly clashed with the Tunisian army in recent weeks, resulting in a rising death toll.
Its Islamist agenda put crucial state institutions – namely, the army and the judiciary – on edge and clashed with the liberal, modernizing demands of its opponents.
If Bhutto had not been assassinated and, instead, successfully became prime minister, she would likely have clashed with Musharraf over his arbitrary empowerment of the presidency at the expense of the premiership.
The two countries clashed over disputed islands in 1986.
So his decision to abandon Saleh stemmed less from his love of the constitution and democracy than from his desire to even the score with the president and his son Ahmad Saleh, with whom he has long clashed.
His forces have already clashed with rival units in Mukalla and surrounded the presidential palace in Aden.
In recent weeks, the two sides have clashed frequently across the Gaza strip, heightening tensions further.
Since then, Egypt has fought a war with Libya and sporadically clashed with Sudan.