Violence soon erupted, with the anti-slavery forces led by John Brown, and Bleeding Kansas, involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers, became a symbol for the nationwide clash over slavery.

Summers then concluded his discussion of the three hypotheses by saying: So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers ' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.

After a major clash in southeastern Angola in 1988 involving FAPLA, Cuban, SWAPO, UNITA and South African forces, South Africa agreed to retreat from Angola and Southwest Africa and grant independence to Namibia and Cuba agreed to move its forces out of Angola.

The first was in 1987, involving Jews for Jesus and their clash with Los Angeles International Airport ’ s policy against free speech.

The events took place against the background of a clash between the Conservative government of Edward Heath and the trade union movement, involving the first national miners ’ strike in Britain since 1926, with mass picketing, and clashes between police and workers.

Although this situation could be looked at on the surface as " clash of cultures ," a deeper conflict, involving understanding and respect relating to each other and to death, is also present.

Philip's father was able to intervene and defuse a potentially violent clash known as the Padre Canyon Incident, which revealed underlying tensions between Navajos and Anglos involving livestock rustling.

These archaic forms of football, typically classified as mob football, would be played between neighboring towns and villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams, who would clash in a heaving mass of people struggling to drag an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town.

During the election campaign a clash between Labour and Conservative activists distributing leaflets at Romford railway station resulted in the police being called.

The SSF activists alleged that on Tuesday night, a group of persons armed with deadly weapons barged into a madrasa classroom at Chinnamugar and tried to attack the teacher, leading to the clash.

The bickering between the two organisations boiled over in 1974 when a clash between teachers belonging to a JCP-affiliated union and BLL activists at a high school in Yoka ( rural Hyōgo Prefecture ) put 29 in hospital.

For the first time the flag of Khalistan was hoisted on August 1, 1980, by activists of the Dal Khalsa at the spot in Amritsar where 13 Sikhs had been killed during a clash with the Nirankaris on April 13, 1978.

Fintan Lane was one of the Irish activists captured during the Gaza flotilla clash in May 2010 ; he was held in the Be ’ er Sheva detention camp before being deported back to Ireland.

The clash of personalities between PAP leader Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman resulted in a crisis and led to the latter expelling Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia in August 1965.

A clash over closed shop union rulings favored by the American Federation of Radio Artists ended DeMille's term as host of Lux Radio Theater.

The Ecuadorian Football Federation ( FEF ) said on its web site that the incident started with a clash between Delgado and his marker, Víctor Montoya.

There was too little occasion beforehand for resistance, the brave strong delights of emotional clash and meeting.

Charlton, still only 19, was selected for the game, which saw United goalkeeper Ray Wood carried off with a broken cheekbone after a clash with Villa centre forward Peter McParland.

With what can crudely be summed up as a clash of ideologies between an expansion of ITV's commercial ethos and a public service approach more akin to the BBC, it was ultimately something of a compromise that eventually led to the formation of Channel 4 as launched in 1982.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.

In Bendigo in 1853, an Anti-Gold Licence Association was formed and the miners were apparently on the brink of an armed clash with authorities.

Two seasons later Coleman's career was tragically ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon.

From 2007 – 2011, the Essendon clash guernsey was the same design as its home guernsey, but with a substantially wider sash such that the guernsey was predominantly red rather than predominantly black.

He was found at age 17 smoking cannabis and partaking in under-age drinking with his friends, would clash physically with paparazzi outside nightclubs, and was photographed at Highgrove House at a " Colonial and Native " themed costume party wearing a Nazi German Afrika Korps uniform with a swastika armband.

The impi, in its Shakan form, is best known among Western readers from the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, particularly the famous Zulu victory at Isandhlwana, but its development was over 60 years in coming before that great clash.

The impi was to clash with the mobile commando on the open fields of the high veldt in a series of epic confrontations, in which each force both suffered defeat and enjoyed victory, and both sides acquitted themselves well.

Jellicoe was in command of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland ( 1916 ), history's largest ( and only major ) clash of dreadnoughts, albeit an indecisive one.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

A clash between the opposing sides was inevitable.

Gaddafi contended that it was the People's Militia that met the Egyptian incursions during the border clash of 1977, although the Egyptians insisted that their successful raids had been contested by regular army units.

Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.

This led to a cultural clash, since in Chamorro tradition there was little private property and taking something one needed, such as a boat for fishing, was not considered stealing.

Most threatening, however, was the ascendancy of Assyria, which was beginning to expand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Qarqar ( 853 BC ), which pitted Shalmaneser III of Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the first clash between Assyria and Israel.

He had left France hoping to establish an island colony after hearing about the success of the English on Saint Kitts, but his fleet was destroyed in a clash with the Spanish Armada, leaving him with only his flagship.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

Georgia left the CIS in August 2008 after a clash with Russia over South Ossetia.

The struggle over investiture between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor had dramatized the clash between church and state.

* 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1, 000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.

Environmentalists often clash with others, particularly “ corporate interests ,” over issues of the management of natural resources, like in the case of the atmosphere as a “ carbon dump ”, the focus of climate change, and global warming controversy.

Italian Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile in The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism promoted the concept of conflict as an act of progress, stating that " mankind only progresses through division, and progress is achieved through the clash and victory of one side over another ".

Banks, who discovered just after arriving in Mexico that he had been awarded the OBE, played his 60th England game in the opening group victory over Romania before taking to the field for the keenly-awaited clash with Brazil.

In Virginia the struggle in 1788 over the ratification of the proposed new Constitution involved more than a simple clash between federalists and anti-federalists.

However, his rule over Syria ended after only a few months, following the clash between his Syrian Arab forces and regular French forces at the Battle of Maysalun.

Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.

** Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.

** Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret ( also known as the Sea of Galilee ) for 3 hours.

Kirk and Spock clash at Starfleet Academy, but, over the course of the movie, Kirk focuses his " passion and obstinance and the spectrum of emotions " and becomes captain of the Enterprise.

As the Celtic world established renewed contact with the Continent it became aware of the divergence ; the first clash over the matter came in Gaul in 602, when Columbanus resisted pressure from the local bishops to conform.

The group's first single was Balin's " It's No Secret " ( a tune he wrote with Otis Redding in mind ); the B-side was " Runnin ' Round The World ", the song that led to the band's first clash with RCA, over the lyric " The nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips.

The fighting at Leuctra opened with a clash between the cavalry, in which the Thebans were victorious over the inferior Spartan cavalry, driving them back into the ranks of the infantry, and thereby disrupting the phalanx.

With Watson having deduced his assassin's identity while Moriarty is occupied in a chess game with Holmes, Moriarty and Holmes clash, with the fight ending as Holmes pulls Moriarty over the edge of a balcony into a waterfall, knowing that he cannot defeat Moriarty in a direct fight due to a recent injury and wanting to protect Watson from Moriarty's revenge.

Howard & Streck go on to describe how the conflict between music and religion, spearheaded by southern fundamentalists, was originally racially-based, but how in the sixties this moved on to a clash over the perceived lifestyle of rock musicians.

Things get worse as the nations of Earth start to clash over limited resources, expanding debt, and population growth as well as restrictions on access to a new longevity treatment developed by Martian science — one that holds the promise of lifespans into the hundreds of years.

The clash over resources on Earth breaks out into a full-blown world war leaving hundreds of millions dead, but cease-fire arrangements are reached when the TransNats flee to the safety of the developed nations, which use their huge militaries to restore order, forming police-states.

Although he was best known for his original play A Man for All Seasons-a depiction of Sir Thomas More's clash with King Henry VIII over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon-which won awards on the stage and in its film version, most of his writing was screenplays for films or television.