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Al Jazeera's motto, "opinion and opposing opinion," has galvanized Arab viewers, because clashing opinions are rarely heard on terrestrial Arab television stations.
When they were at one another’s throat over clashing vital interests, he could do little.
New populist parties garner large numbers of votes simply by frightening people about the supposed horrors of Islam, or of clashing civilizations.
The question then becomes whether he will choose a pragmatic approach, even if it means clashing with Uribe, just as Santos did.
For another, every one of Samuel Huntington’s famously clashing civilizations finds a representative among its members, giving a common roof to the widest possible array of worldviews in their smallest imaginable combination (just 18 countries).
Instead, these clashing narratives created a deleterious spiral, fanning the flames of animosity and leading to the election of a left-wing government in Greece with a mandate to oppose austerity – with disastrous results for both sides.
Although Draghi has not implemented the sort of far-reaching monetary-policy measures witnessed in the United States over the past six years, his approach nonetheless provides European leaders with some valuable lessons in policymaking, especially when faced with clashing national interests.
When two clashing explanations of the same phenomenon are both correct, they must be incomplete, even if they capture different aspects of observed reality.
On the far road there was also dust and to spare, but through it there flashed every now and then a long twinkle of brightness, like a hundred silver beads threaded in a line; and the breeze brought down such a snarling, clanging, clashing kind of music as I had never listened to.
In his trouble he forgot that it was he who had drawn those clashing strokes, who had spread on those dirty tints that now terrified him.
In the midst marched Sancho with his staff, as fine a sight as one could wish to see, and but a few streets of the town had been traversed when they heard a noise as of a clashing of swords.
'The noise of the combat was terrific; each of the three combatants swearing like troopers, and their swords clashing with as much noise as if all the knives and steels in Newport market were rattling together, at the same time.
The straggling cottages by the road- side, the dingy hue of every object visible, the murky atmosphere, the paths of cinders and brick-dust, the deep-red glow of furnace fires in the distance, the volumes of dense smoke issuing heavily forth from high toppling chimneys, blackening and obscuring everything around; the glare of distant lights, the ponderous wagons which toiled along the road, laden with clashing rods of iron, or piled with heavy goods--all betokened their rapid approach to the great working town of Birmingham.
Then those who dwelt in Bonacieux’s unfortunate house, together with the nearest neighbors, heard loud cries, stamping of feet, clashing of swords, and breaking of furniture.
The instruments, the tools, our guns, are clashing and clanking violently in their collisions with each other; the nails of my boots cling tenaciously to a plate of iron let into the timbers, and I cannot draw my foot away from the spot.
A Saxon bard had called it a feast of the swords--a gathering of the eagles to the prey--the clashing of bills upon shield and helmet, the shouting of battle more joyful than the clamour of a bridal.
"What is the matter?" said he eagerly; "what mean these cries, and that clashing of swords?""Only a trick of the times," said Wamba; "they are all prisoners."
A sense of wounds and injury, joined to great weakness and exhaustion, was mingled with the recollection of blows dealt and received, of steeds rushing upon each other, overthrowing and overthrown--of shouts and clashing of arms, and all the heady tumult of a confused fight.
The voices of the knights were heard, animating their followers, or directing means of defence, while their commands were often drowned in the clashing of armour, or the clamorous shouts of those whom they addressed.
The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches.
He, the bright consumer of palaces,Broad waves he his blazing banner,Red, wide and dusky,Over the strife of the valiant:His joy is in the clashing swords and broken bucklers;He loves to lick the hissing blood as it bursts warm from the wound!
Sviyazhsky was one of those people – they invariably amazed Levin – whose judgment was very logical though never original and was kept quite apart from their conduct, while their manner of life was very definite and stable, its tendency being quite independent of their judgment, and even clashing with it.
One would have said, to hear the furious clashing of his iron fork and his earthenware plate, that all his love had turned to appetite.
At moments an unearthly noise was heard; at moments applause; at moments roaring, rumbling, the clashing of teeth, the howling of Molossian dogs; at times only groans.
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