It's not hard to see why: the 191 members, with their wildly clashing interests, cannot even agree on what the institution is for.

Washington's corporate and business lobbyists represent a myriad of often clashing interests.

City halls are a babble of clashing interests that seldom join in a common cause.

Another case of clashing interests involves China and India.

Clashing interests strained relations between church and state, while efforts to compromise were relegated to contempt.

Immediately, however, comes the second test: resolving the clashing interests and ancient enmities that have survived the war.

The constrained vision, by contrast, sees war as a rational activity; it is only natural that nations should have clashing interests.

Mrs. Hodoyan said she felt torn apart by the clashing interests of her two sons.

In the last decade, the board has been a raucous, sometimes violent, stage for clashing interests on the Lower East Side.

Earlier this week Hillary Clinton used the country as an example of clashing interests in US foreign policy.

Mr. Sanders contends that nothing has happened in Albany on school governance for 25 years because there are too many clashing interests.

But the proposal has been caught up in the clashing interests of judges, unions, party leaders, civic groups and even conflicting cost estimates by accounting firms.

More important, it has little meaning in a land where the clashing interests of various groups intertwine with the clashing wills of various nations.

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Given the clashing interests of those involved - the institutions and the officials who run them, as well as the candidates - it is difficult to foresee an outcome.

In 1952, the Supreme Court faced a set of clashing interests in the Youngstown case broadly similar to those in the current surveillance controversy.

They too - all of us - are enmeshed in a system of clashing interests in which prosperity or even survival generally takes precedence over abstract reflection.

Negotiations Intensive Campaign To Pressure Albany Still, the compromise reached last week is surprising given the clashing interests that marked the debate for so long.

A photograph of the wild sheep has appeared accidentally in a newsletter; like Dashiell Hammett's Maltese falcon, the singular sheep is pursued by clashing interests.

Herodotus (Histories, 1.73-74) states that there were two reasons for the war; the two sides clashing interests in Anatolia, but also there was a motive of revenge.

Delegates Dillard and Griffith agree that the gun issue has long played out not so much on party lines as on the clashing interests of rural and urban-suburban lawmakers.

In his search for a state environmental commissioner, Gov. George E. Pataki has found himself torn between two clashing interests that have long considered him an ally: business leaders and environmentalists.

But, clashing interests soon losing their equipoise, a monarchy and hierarchy break out of the confusion of ambitious struggles, and the foundation of both is secured by feudal tenures.

In the Elizabethan era, Piers' Christological aspect became fully detached from and eclipsed by his role as the universal commoner, a secular economic man among economic men with clashing interests.

Moreover, there have been repeated calls for systemic changes in the past, but they have all fallen victims in the Legislature in Albany to the clashing interests of mayors, borough presidents, unions and others.