9 sentences with 'conflict'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conflict and other words derived from it.
• « "There are in him fits of rage," Marquis wrote; "an endless conflict between ideals, emotions, and impulses as opposite as day and night: a conflict which sometimes makes me feel that two personalities are struggling to master their inner selves." »
• « Egypt became embroiled in a long period of civil war and conflict, and from that time onwards Egypt proved vulnerable to foreign conquest. »
• « The Persian War is also remembered, unfortunately, for how the conflict was appropriated by proto-racist beliefs in the superiority of "the West". »
• « Because the Greeks saw the Persian War conflict in terms of the triumph of true Greek civilisation over barbarian tyranny, and the surviving historical sources are told exclusively from the Greek perspective, this bias has managed to endure to the present day. »
• « Open war finally broke out between the two cities in 431 BC after two of their respective allied polis initiated a conflict and Athens tried to influence the political decisions of the Spartan allies. The war lasted from 431 to 404 BC. »
• « The women of Athens are fed up with the pointless conflict and use the only thing they have any power over, their bodies, to force the men to stop the fighting by concealing sex. »
• « Soon, the conflict escalated as Carthage sided with Syracuse and Rome saw an opportunity to expand Roman power in Sicily. »
• « His enemies in the Senate feared his tremendous influence with the people of Rome, so the conflict was as much an internal factional struggle among the senators as it was the fear that Julius Caesar would impose some kind of tyranny. »
• « Likewise, the different Islamic states were often in conflict. The political and military history of medieval Europe and the Middle East is one of different political entities, both warlike and commercial; religion was certainly an important factor, but there are many cases where it was secondary to more prosaic economic or political concerns. »