How To Use Strife In A Sentence

Tribal traditions and a male-dominated reading of Islam have produced a deeply rooted ideology of women as temptresses, who must be kept under control to avoid "fitna" or social strife, thereby safeguarding the "peace of Islam. Ida Lichter, M.D.: Afghan Women's Movements Deserve More From the West
Where my taxi driver and dhobi would have peace, their leaders see advantage in strife - where and when does India reach the tipping point and choose its path? Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Ecstasy and Agony of India -- From the Political to the Tribal
Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
Howbeit when they should come to sit downe at dinner, there kindled a strife betwixt the said two bishops about their places, bicause the bishop of London, for that he had beene ordeined long before the archbishop, and therefore not onelie as deane to the see of Canturburie, but also by reason of prioritie, pretended to haue the vpper seat. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

This rivalry had involved civil wars, peasant uprisings, and religious strife of every description.
The world lies in strife, in discord, in divergence.
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
Racial strife is tearing our country apart.
Tara chand was speaking on the occasion of International economic summit held on sdaturday in New Delhi where some prominent displaced Kashmiri Pandit CEOs and top policy makers of J&K state got together to draw the road map for what they described as revival of economy in the strife torn J&K state. Kashmiri origin CEOs,(KPCC) holds International Economic Summit in New Delhi
As for Spain, she was hard pressed; French and American emissaries had stirred up strife in her colonies; and affairs were most "ticklish" in San Domingo. William Pitt and the Great War
Objective To winnow and establish the optimal condition for ultrasonic extraction of total flavone from christina loosestrife herb.
The country has been torn apart by years of civil strife.
There were no signs of marital strife and no history of violence or erratic behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Epops (the hoopoe), sometime called Tereus, and now King of the Birds, they determine, under the direction of a raven and a jackdaw, to seek from him and his subject birds a city free from all care and strife. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
Our ways may be wicked, and the movements of our mind wicked; such as adulteries, thefts, idolatries, slanders, strife, passion, sedition, vain-glory, and all that the apostle Paul enumerates among the works of the flesh. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
American intermarriage rates a century ago, however, were much more similar to those in violently strife-torn, religiously divided Northern Ireland. American Grace
What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority?
'Twas granted him not that ever the edge of iron at all could help him at strife: too strong was his hand, so the tale is told, and he tried too far with strength of stroke all swords he wielded, though sturdy their steel: they steaded him nought. Beowulf
Sometimes they indulge false hopes that by lying low, truckling, appeasing, they can avoid danger and strife… And this is what seems to have happened in Spain.
Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis. The Crack of Doom
Exactly a year earlier in the Tuskegee courthouse, his congressman, Tom Heflin, had attacked him as a liar and troublemaker, a fomenter of racial strife, a dangerous Negro. Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority?
Twenty years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins.
Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
At least 35,000 people have died in the civil conflict over the past decade and the death toll from civil strife since 1948 is estimated at 300,000.
Politics defines the world of means subordinate to ends, of instrumental complexes, of conflict, disputation and strife.
Small wonder, perhaps, that his earth, air, fire, and water were wrought into different blends - the materials of the natural world - through the agency of the colourful principles Love and Strife.
When the native species is suppressed, the area becomes a monoculture of purple loosestrife.
It is best to go around them rather than encounter them directly or you end up in strife and conflict.
The shire was the scene of much strife after the Reformation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Perhaps Shakespeare's most famous play, Romeo and Juliet combines the contrasting elements of humor and sorrow, bawdiness and civil strife, and innocent love and ignorant hate to rouse an amazing depth of mixed tenderness and tension.
Poverty breeds strife.
Forget the trouble and strife (and I know what that's a cockneyism for!) forget the chores and the deadlines, forget that the nose is at the grindstone!
And peace is produced by justice -- the moral virtue which is concerned with our works: _The work of justice shall be peace_ [331] inasmuch, that is, as a man, by refraining from injuring others, removes occasions of strife and disturbance. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh among themselves," intonated Eliezer. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
After years of warfare and bitter strife, this King, Erasmus, changed the course of events for the two states forever.
From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
In the face of strife and disease, Africans are leading the search for shalom.
A huge amount of strife can be avoided if homework is designed rather than just assigned. Times, Sunday Times
As they talked together, I was distressed to hear them recounting episodes of racial strife that they had seen.
He used to say man has had his chance - man has bungled, man has blundered, man has built up a civilization of violence and war, of hatred and strife - the new civilization will be built by women.
By the end of the 1800s, men were prone to view struggle and strife as ends in themselves. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
All over the world human strife arises from these sources, escalating into violence, bringing death and scattering ruin.
Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
Living and working constantly amidst conflict and strife, pain and suffering. Christianity Today
VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'US envoy: Iraq war opened \'Pandora\'s box, \' civil war threat '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' The 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein opened a \'Pandora\'s box\ 'of ethnic and sectarian strife that has created the threat of civil war, the US ambassador to Iraq said in an interview published Tuesday. OpEdNews - Quicklink: US envoy: Iraq war opened 'Pandora's box,' civil war threat
Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.
We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.
“The endless internal strife of the Japanese builds up a sense of hubris and elitism,” he argues, “while being on the defense instills a sense of humility and compassion for others … The hero of Japanese manga is ‘I’ while the hero in Korean manhwa is ‘We.’” 02 « February « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
This is the extreme point in the domination of Strife; but it is not, as on the traditional interpretation, a total, acosmic separation of elements. Empedocles
To overcome factional strife, most Italian communes adopted the institution of podesta, a foreigner endowed with judicial and administrative powers. Steve Clemons: The Role of Podesta
Their strife jumper is white with dark blue side panels as good as a interlocking trademark in dark blue a! Uni Watch Footy Down Under, Mate
Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season. Sunday roadkill report
Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
Hanna also worked with the National Civic Federation to conciliate labor strife.
Paramilitary forces have also been rushed to the strife-torn state.
The first impression is of pink phlox, purple loosestrife, clematis, pelargoniums, roses and day lilies.
This event was preceded by a period of communal strife, brought under control with assistance from British troops.
On these white areas bright red spots were conspicuous, due to telangiectasis, and there were also some stellate vascular spots and strife interspersed among the pigment. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Unlike some ethnic groups, they have refrained from importing the kind of issues which have led to sectarian or civil strife in their history or homeland. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
The very conception of truth was a new one, as a goddess not to be shielded behind the shades of hierophantic mystery, but rather to be sought in the free tumult and joyous strife of many voices, there vindicating her own majesty and marking her own children. Voltaire
So is the saga of internecine strife behind the luxurious façades of the Guggenheim museum empire. Times, Sunday Times
From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
The 400-plus lorries that rumble through the narrow streets every day have long been a source of strife between residents and the hauliers for the quarries at Giggleswick, Dry Rigg, Arcow and Horton.
But it is also true that during the same period an estimated 160 million people have lost their lives in inter-state wars, civil strife, totalitarian purges and ethnic cleansing.
As Christians, we know that the peace for which this strife-torn land yearns has a name: Jesus Christ. Pope in the Holy Land: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
CAMBODIA Most famous for its "killing fields" and recurrent strife that ended only recently, Cambodia is also a nation of sensual tropical pleasures: exotic fruits, coarse silks and a cornucopia of rivers and lakes. Luxury On the Edge
Eotens_), 1142; so, hond gemunde fæhðo genôge (_his hand remembered strife enough_), 2490; ne ge-munde mago Ecglâfes þät ... (_remembered not that which_ ...), 1466; pret.pl. helle gemundon in môd-sefan (_their thoughts_ Beowulf
The garden is actually getting rather tired as the summer progresses, but I still have yellow loosestrife, some alstroemeria, alchemilla mollis (ladies' mantle), meadow-sweet, astrantia (this year for the first time in more than one colour), red and white valerian, lavender, veronica and butterfly blue scabious. Weekend pleasures
The split between Menshevik and Bolshevik, the dispute over collectivization and industrialization, the polemics concerning Karl Kautsky and Georgi Plekhanov and Otto Bauer — all of these have come to appear as arcane as the strife over the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds. The Old Man
If the labour market doesn't evolve to accommodate the needs of working mothers, there will be strife at home.
The ethnic diversity of Surinam resulted in increasing racial and political strife after World War II.
Most of the trouble and strife came from friction between wives and girlfriends. Times, Sunday Times
You are triumphant in conflicts after a period of strife and opposition.
If any Lwa / Orisha were to be encouraging of unorthodox veneration, it might certainly well be Legba - the traveller, the boundary-walker, the strife-sower and line-crosser.
Many home-grown substitutes were used in Revolutionary times for tea: ribwort was a favorite one; strawberry and currant leaves, sage, thorough-wort, and "Liberty Tea," made from the four-leaved loosestrife. Home Life in Colonial Days
A green light from the EU for the linkup could be the first of several positive events in coming weeks for BA, which has been battered for two years by falling traffic, labor strife and other woes. EU Likely to Clear Alliance of American, BA, Iberia
Needless to say, after more than a decade of internecine strife, all this faddish Conservative unity is somewhat fragile, not to say illusory.
The drawbridge was the precarious ground of many a midnight strife, till the daring gallantry of Nigel Bruce became the theme of every tongue; a gallantry equalled only by the consummate skill which he displayed, in retreating within his entrenchments frequently without the loss of a single man either as killed or wounded. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
“In doing so,” returned the bishop, “thou wilt best atone for the injury which thou hast done to the law of Heaven upon former occasions, and thou shalt prevent the causes for strife betwixt thee and thy brethren of the southern land, and shalt eschew the temptation towards that blood-guiltiness which is so rife in this our day and generation. Castle Dangerous
Don't you deserve a break from the stress and the strife?
And nearly all thinkers agree that being and substance are composed of contraries; at least all name contraries as their first principles-some name odd and even, some hot and cold, some limit and the unlimited, some love and strife. Metaphysics
When we hardheadedly choose to hold on to strife, we are choosing to step out of God’s protection. Become a Better You
Second, special discourse upon the first civil strife and split.
An emergency session of the governing body of strife-torn Ripon Cathedral was held yesterday over the latest troubles to hit the minster.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
Strife sprinted onwards in the pouring rain, tenderly cradling his six-year-old daughter who was whimpering with fear.
I am talking about labor agitators who feed and fatten and thrive on the deliberate creation of discord and discontent and strife -- who live only by provoking disputes, where no reason for dispute exists -- and their chief "high priest", Mr. John L. Lewis, who denied coal to our steel mills because portal-to-portal pay was more important than the lives of our sons. A Business Man Speaks Up
Bearing branches of yew in their hands, as the readiest substitute for palm boughs, they marched respectively to the Dominican and Carthusian convents, to hear High Mass, and, by a show at least of devotion, to prepare themselves for the bloody strife of the day. The Fair Maid of Perth
This exchange remains a constant cause of strife and conflict in my chemistry.
By their own words, as rendered into English by Mr. Benjamin's coreligionist Mr. Goldfarb, they show themselves to be zealots at strife with virtually the entire world of their time. The Guns Of The South
The real, lasting damage of such internecine strife is a collapse of faith in the institutional fabric.
The success is set against a backdrop of strife in the wider industry. Times, Sunday Times
The military triumph of the rack-renter or the Whiteboy would be the happiest issue of the strife. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
Given the history of countries that have wallowed in civil strife, things will never be the same in Ivory Coast.
The risks are far from over in Iraq, especially given Iran's desire to keep ethnic strife aboil and prevent the emergence of a strong, democratically elected and Shiite-dominated government. Iraq's Casualty Decline
With megastar Sunjay Dutt and Vidya Balan, Munnabhai was hailed as a film that, according to critics, “revalidate[s] the philosophy of non-violence in a strife-torn world and help[s] rediscover the Gandhi within the common man.” Buzzine » National Film Awards in New Delhi
Yoritomo's kamakura shogunate was replaced in 1333 by the Ashikaga shogunate, but its rule was one of prolonged civil strife.
A variety of the loosestrife herb .
Meaning, I guess, we're supposed to concede the point that keeping armed forces in Iraq is better than some imagined, hypothetical scenario where all hell breaks loose the second our forces leave, the country dissolves into sectarian warfare (worse that the civil strife that has already occurred,) and some kind of apocalyptical genocide breaks out (the kind of genocide we care about, not the Darfur or Congo kind.) Allison Kilkenny: Iraq and Afghanistan: Consider the Alternative
Second, the strife between world and earth gives rise to a strife between concealment and unconcealment, which means that, even when we are illumined through a disclosure, much remains hidden.
But it was destroyed by doubters and the internecine strife between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
And when these war-wolves had journeyed nigh unto the camp, the son of Terah, wise of heart, bespake his captains (great was his need that they should wage grim war on either flank, and hard hand-play against the foe) and said that easily the Holy, Everlasting Lord could speed their fortunes in the spear-strife. Codex Junius 11
A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.
When nations are engaged in deadly strife, it is common for patriots to declare that he who gives his life for defense of his country may be certain of a home in heaven because of having made the supreme sacrifice.
The search for the cure to marital strife is over. Times, Sunday Times
This, then, I pondered, was the end of it all, of life and strife and striving and love, the weary spirits of these long - gone ones to be invoked by fat old women and mangy sorcerers, the bones of them to be esteemed of collectors and betted on horse - races and ace-fulls or to be sold for cash and invested in sugar stocks. SHIN-BONES
In a world of trouble and strife, she seems to make all things simpler. Times, Sunday Times
If pushed too hard at this critical moment he could impose emergency rule and provoke far greater strife.
Douglas who must answer to this heavy charge, for when was there strife or bloodshed in Scotland, but there were foul tongues to asperse a Douglas or The Fair Maid of Perth
The country has been torn apart by years of civil strife.
Back-seat strife was the most popular cause of arguments, together with chippy comments on driving skills or speed of travel.
Whenever that consummation is attained the root of bitterness will have perished from the land; and when a few years shall have passed, blunting the hatred which has been excited by this fratricidal strife, the Americans of both the Northern and Southern States will perceive that the selfish policy of other nations would not have so rejoiced over their division had it not seemed, to those who loved them not, the proof of past failure and the prophecy of future weakness. Current Literature
It is probably the only symbol of stability in a car torn by wars, civil strife and violence.
Felix is said of fero, fers, that is to say as to bear, and of this word lis, litis, which is as much to say as strife. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
Obviously, to share a resource like water was to invite conflict and strife.
The country was torn apart by strife.
What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority?
The hatred of one community against the other shall sow seeds of civil strife.
Overflowing with affection to his friends, and showing it in all kinds of unconventional and unexpected instances, keeping to the last a kind of youthful freshness as if he had never yet realised that he was not a boy, and shrunk from the formality and donnishness of grown-up life, he was the most refined and thoughtful of gentlemen, and in the midst of the fierce party battles of his day, with all his strong feeling of the tremendous significance of the strife, always a courteous and considerate opponent. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; nor did the swords cease on the napes of men to make play nor the strife to rage with more and more affray, till the most part of the night was past away and the two hosts were aweary of the mellay. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On a fifth day, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bare to trouble the forsworn. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Problems such as deadlines, noise, marital strife, excessive demands made on our time by others, and so forth.
Jennifer said her husband inspired many people by being candid about his own strife.
The exasperations of the war, and the still more acrimonious exasperations of the period of the political reconstruction and of the organization of northern missions at the South, gendered strifes that still delay the redintegration which is so visibly future of both of these divided denominations. A History of American Christianity
The elaboration is frenetic with strife, but the reprise is a many-hued rainbow after storm, and the coda in A major Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
THE clouds were gathering fast -- the waters were troubled -- and the approaching tumult and disquiet of all things in Carolina, clearly indicated the coming of that strife, so soon to overcast the scene -- so long to keep it darkened -- so deeply to impurple it with blood. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
[Sidenote: Strife betwixt the prelates for preheminence.] and his chapleine (whom he appointed [15] to beare his crosse before him at his entrance into the kings chappell) was contemptuouslie and violentlie thrust out of the doores with crosse and all by the fréends of the archbishop of Canturburie. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
In empires of eternal form, he never lived, a marble bust, in solemn air, august in strife, inert and noble, wreathed in gilt of autumn leaves. The Lucifer Cantos 7/13
HuffPost Hill did some Dog-type sleuthing minus the motorcycles, hair-bleaching, sketchy bondsmen and domestic strife and figured out what happened: The live stream runs over channel 26, which is A&E until the House recording studio flips a switch near the start of the hearing. HUFFPOST HILL - Ax Says Gun Control On The Table
Attila, therefore, in his efforts to bring about the wars 185 long ago instigated by the bribe of Gaiseric, sent ambassadors into Italy to the Emperor Valentinian to sow strife between the Goths and the Romans, thinking to shatter by civil discord those whom he could not crush in battle. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
Purple loosestrife can grow to 3-9 feet tall with several, square stalks per plant.
Relations with Israel are being tested as well, including Washington's ability to protect a close ally now increasingly isolated in a strife-torn region. Administration deals with strategy on Egypt
If pushed too hard at this critical moment he could impose emergency rule and provoke far greater strife.
But, on the way, nestling in the very heart of Europe, perfectly civilised and strifeless, jewelled all over with freedom, is another country which he has not visited since his accession -- a country which, oddly enough, none but I seems to expect him to visit. Yet Again
Had the third estate been centred entirely in the communes at strife with their lords, had the fate of burgherdom in France depended on the communal liberties won in that strife, we should see, at the end of the thirteenth century, that element of French society in a state of feebleness and decay. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
The ethnic and religious strife is really a matter of an uneven distribution of economic resources and opportunities.
Additional, those who come to promote is not little also, dozen fold, rake-off, price war is made between intermediary organization, strife openly and secretly, lively and special.
One of these days my lack of shame is going to get me into strife.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
We stayed away from pretty but non-native invasive plants like purple loosestrife and Japanese honeysuckle.
He lost his job during last year's industrial strife.
Lebanon's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, shot back that Qaradawi was trying to incite "fitna" - the word for internal civil strife among Muslims that is anathema to followers of Islam. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority?
Nigeria's history is tainted with the blood of its citizens in everything from civil strife to military coups to ethnic skirmishes among the country's 200-or-so tribes.
A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.
Purple loosestrife can grow to 3-9 feet tall with several, square stalks per plant.
It is here explicitly declared that this doctrine, the obedience of slaves to their masters, are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ; and the arguments of its opposers are characterized as doting sillily about questions and strifes of words, and therefore unworthy of reply and refutation. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
Now 'Realms Of Strife', his second volume of memoirs, is available too.
Incomprehensible forces of gravitation tug every possible aspect of strife and destruction towards him. Times, Sunday Times
The world's top four platinum producers are now all mired in industrial strife. Times, Sunday Times
Mama is still upset that money is causing such strife around the house, but refuses to give any money or blessings to anything supporting alcohol.
They could do a white strife unvaried with a yellow cincture couldnt they? Uni Watch Footy Down Under, Mate
Any cuts are sure to cause internal strife. Times, Sunday Times
The theme of this hexagram is the need for reform and for returning to the right path after a long period of strife and confusion. Balkinization
I "immured" myself far away from the scene of turmoil and strife, and was happy so long as I kept my eyes on my books and manuscripts. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
tufted loosestrife
When an eternal life hereafter is viewed as the final human goal, then trouble and strife in this life take something of a back seat.
They blamed the republic's nationalistic coalition government for the slide into civil strife.
His blades, still blazing with a powerful energy, cut through Strife's scorching aura without the slightest resistance.
At last when attempts were made to elect to Parliament an Irish lawyer who added to his impecuniousness, eloquence, a half-finished University education, and an Orangeman's prejudices of the best brand of Belfast or Derry, inter-civic strife took the form of physical violence. The World for Sale, Complete
Plainly, this kind of guarantee is socially divisive, a recipe for religious controversy if not civil strife.
Much of the intertribal strife of the seventeenth century originated in long-standing competitiveness and jealously which was highly exacerbated by the introduction of European goods.
Instability within the comital house thus reinforced and redoubled political strife within Bruges.
The old author dreamed that the heroes of the Trojan War were changed by Zeus into the warriors of the mimic strife in order that such renowned exploits should be perpetuated among men forever: rather must we reverse the dream, and apotheosize the powers of the board, that they may appear in the sieges, heroisms, and victories of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
Eotens_), 1142; so, hond gemunde fǣhðo genōge (_his hand remembered strife enough_), 2490; ne ge-munde mago Ecglāfes þæt ... (_remembered not that which_ ...), 1466; pret.pl. helle gemundon in mōd-sefan (_their thoughts_ Beowulf
The fact that we may always be faced with strife, misunderstandings and miscommunication, an uncaught harsh word, bad moods and annoyances just means we have plenty of opportunity set before us to practice mercy, and to obtain mercy according to the promise of Christ. Eric Simpson: Those Who Are Merciful Will Obtain Mercy
This remarkable Archive of Labour unravels a sweeping story of strife and celebration.
`We would subjugate that land completely, and end this ancient strife. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
And lying thus in such an agonie, I thought vpon the strifes of weake fortune, and the inchauntments of the malicious _Cyrces_, as if I had by hir charmes and quadranguled plaints, been bereaued of my sences. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
But even so, Fan says an atmosphere of strife and polarisation remains in the society at large.
`There's been more strife here about who's going to do what than the High Peak has known since the Enclosure Acts. PASSION IN THE PEAK
The work of strife he dreed.
But cricket has remained a unifying force for the strife-torn nation. Times, Sunday Times
The election took place amid industrial strife and a three-day week. The Sun
So when you think about the wars, the famines, the strife, the terrors that we face on a daily basis doesn't it make sense to explore the benefits of cloning?
The ardent flames raged ceaselessly for days, crumbling Troy into dust and so after years of bitterness, strife and wars the Greek had finally defeated the Trojans.
Rocks that are cruel and relentless as the surges that sweep over them in stormy weather, and which are so quaintly named from their helmet, or "casque" - like resemblance -- rocks, concerning which the poet Swinburne has sung in his eloquent verse, that breathes the very spirit of the sea in depicting the strife of the elements: Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
In those desert regions, where man is constantly in strife with animated or inanimated nature, they daily speak of similar or corresponding means by which it is possible to escape from a tiger, a great boa, or a crocodile. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
Eton with the spirit of public life and political association, the few boys with active minds mimicked the strife of parliament in their debating society, and copied the arts of journalism in the _Eton The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
The most high-voltage internal strife was witnessed in the ruling party, which was relatively free from such implosions in earlier electoral campaigns.
Historians tend to depict political strife in the second half of the eighteenth century as a contest between various Whig factions. English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology
Tudor The Tudors brought to a close years of internecine strife when King Henry VII ended the Wars of the Roses between the rival houses of York and Lancaster.
Think of discord, chaos, strife, anarchy, change, and confusion.
Thus the world is fated to see a steady increase in despotism, warfare, civil strife, impoverishment, fanaticism and genocide. Stromata Blog:
More than forty years of strife and struggle with the whisper that, by whatever name she called her vindictive pride and rage, nothing through all eternity could change their nature. Little Dorrit
Typically, the opposing hardliners only strike a deal after a long and bitter conflict in which the terrible costs of continuing strife have been made unmistakably clear.
Afghan farmers have returned to cotton cultivation, sowing the crop over 6,000 hectares of land in the northern Kunduz province after decades of strife.
Douglas, till he shall adorn it with that lock, will permit the honoured lock of hair which it now bears to retain its station, she on whose head it grew will hold it as a signal that poor Augusta de Berkely is pardoned for having gaged any mortal man in strife with the Knight of Castle Dangerous
The whole episode has drawn attention again to internecine strife in the ruling party.
They're able to return thanks to a peace agreement signed last year, ending three decades of civil strife in Angola.
There were no signs of marital strife and no history of violence or erratic behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
The margins support a range of wetland plants including brookweed, arrowhead and purple loosestrife.
And at the last, after many words, there was a clerk which had been longing to S. Erkenwold, and saw this strife, and stood up and commanded silence, and told to the people a great commendation of the virtuous life of this holy saint, and said it was not honest, ne according, to misentreat the holy body by violent hands, but let us beseech Almighty The Golden Legend, vol. 7
It's about two people who get caught up in its labyrinthine politics and have to make contact across a gulf of personal strife and cultural difference.
They blamed the republic's nationalistic coalition government for the slide into civil strife.
He was the master of a small three-masted vessel called a xebec, armed for privateering, the _San Antonio_, manned by Ivizans, engaged in constant strife with the galliots of the Algerian Moors and with the ships of England, the enemy of Spain. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan

How To Use Strife In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):