Examples of strife

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Their testimonies highlight how closely revivalism was bound up in the politics of familial strife.
Instead, it probably entered a feedback relationship with established agricultural systems and growing political strife shown in war fare.
The author thereby presents us with a startling picture of religious strife.
The project represented a source of alternative employment to the nearby fishermen, at least until the labor strife in the early months of 1852.
From 1826 taxes were paid in paper money, and their collection was extremely inefficient given the contemporary administrative disorder and political strife.
Religious disputes, for example, might factionalize the system and prevent disinterested deliberation or mutual accommodation in other areas, or even lead to civil strife.
When the alternative is very destructive internal strife, the cost may seem cheap.
Daily operations within the factories suffered further from the political strife caused by interventors who saw themselves as representatives of their party.
He thinks it is problematic to appeal in practical ethics to a disputed moral outlook and invite social strife.
He contrasted a golden age with current economic strife.
In some cases, the passage marked a time of personal strife or crisis.
He believed that a strong sovereign was necessary to avoid the war and civil strife which results from bellicose human nature.
In the mid-1930s when international crisis led to military confrontation between nations, national political strife affected the personal relationship of foreign students.
The colonists, no matter how inept, were the cause of the strife that every member of the community faced.
On the other hand, strife-torn or isolated countries are found in other parts of the developing world.
He interprets political developments in terms of conflicting agricultural and industrial interests as opposed to the more common themes of national strife or class struggle.
Putting the politics back into '68 suggests that its legacy was more one of civil strife than of civil liberties.
Though there are many ways of approaching the subject, the omnipresence of anxiety and strife unite all of them.
The strife induced by industrialization is, for her, a catalyst for revolution rather than an impediment to it.
Increasing wealth leads to strife which in turn leads to government by monarchies.
A latent danger of renewed civil strife was always present.
A majority of the jury had experience within their own parish of confessional strife.
One comes to suspect that most memories of communal strife are props to a community's selfesteem and self-de®nition rather than stereotypes having murderous implications.
The strife between eye and ear bears complications and ambivalences that remain.
The salient point, however, is the management of strife.
Human ethics were put through the most extreme test during periods of strife between nations.
Most often, they suggested that there was strife of some kind at home and the parents must not have provided appropriate guidance.
All of the eight cases experienced episodes of massive and prolonged civil strife.
Admittedly, the authors mention strife in case of contest between episcopal candidates, or conflict about the use of episcopal estates.
The almost universal solution proposed to the problem of partisan strife was distance, both literal and figurative.
She had a special gift, of being able to get on with people, to get them to co-operate and to repress strife and antagonism.
Arguably from 1552 onwards none of the proposed remedies succeed in solving the constitutional conflict, which in turn was overshadowed by the religious strife.
The loss of time is also the loss of memory, where the unusual lyrical use of the hexameter exchanges strife on land for a directionless bobbing about at sea.
The divisions of civil strife now criss-crossed those of foreign war.
Moreover, repression and civil strife become more likely as the sovereign's payoff from transgressing and being challenged increases relative to the payoff of not transgressing at all.
A central puzzle in the comparative politics literature has been why certain societies are able to achieve political stability while others suffer from strife, repression and authoritarian rule.
Nobles did make attempts throughout this period to bolster the unity of the lineage by putting in place mechanisms for the regulation and arbitration of domestic strife.
In a world where families were torn apart by war, exile and religious strife men and women often started new relationships abroad without having properly divorced their partners back home.
Having obliterated the threat of armed rebellion and violent interregnal strife, colonial rule made it unnecessary to continue to exclude potential heirs to the throne from positions of territorial responsibility.
He also puts special emphasis on the issue of civil strife and international politics, of international processes of mediation, peacekeeping and armed intervention, this again within a comparative frame.
There are at least 25 million of these environmental refugees-a total to be compared with 23 million traditional refugees, viz. people fleeing political oppression, religious persecution and ethnic strife.
Important strikes in 1918- 19; more numerous in the following winter and in the winter of 1920-21 industrial strife became almost general in organised industry.
Unfortunately, a ' lack of pluralism ' does not offer much of an explanation for either regional or national civil strife, or their uniqueness in time and place.
Her thorough grounding in the literature of cultural anthropology, particularly the scholarship on honour, shame and vendetta helps to set the notional stage of factionalism and civil strife.
Even in communities apparently riven by strife between ' godly ' and ' conservative ' groups it is far from clear that the parties in dispute held unswervingly to homogeneous religious positions.
The present proposal is an insult to the national church and, unless adjustment is made, we can expect some sectarian strife.
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