Word Finder - strife

definition

Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.

definition

Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.

definition

Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.

synonyms

• altercation
• contention
• discord
• wrangle

definition

A trouble of any kind.

definition

That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

But the centre of strife was not to be Arabia.

Grote maintains that ostracism was a useful device, on the grounds that it removed the danger of tyranny, and was better than the perpetual civil strife of the previous century.

With this civil strife the importance and prosperity of Louvain declined.

The early years of the Omayyads were years of constant strife in Arabia.

Immediately after the war, strife occurred among the Basuto themselves over the question of the partition of Moirosi's territory, which had been decided on as one of the results of the war.

He kept himself aloof from all party strife.

The problem which was to be settled by a century of strife was now posed.

The history of Mexico from 1884 to 1910 was almost void of political strife.

Peter began the long strife of the Angevine and Aragonese parties in southern Italy.

In the war of independence it was repeatedly subjected to pillage and slaughter by both parties in the strife, and did not recover its losses for many years.

Our apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife about the name of the bishop's office.

In the last years of his short life he engaged actively in politics, and made speeches in Paris and in Moscow in the beginning of 1882 in favour of a militant Panslavism, predicting a desperate strife between Teuton and Sla y.

The opposition between Shammai and Hillel was perpetuated by their respective schools, till, under Gamaliel II., the strife was decided at Jabneh in favour of the school of Hillel.

A laudable attempt has been made to keep the education department free from the vagaries and the strife of party politics, and the advantages of political control have been as much felt as its drawbacks.

For a time the War of1812-1814with the United States put an end to the strife.

The Thirty Years' War now ceased to be a religious struggle The between Catholicism and Protestantism; it resolved Swedish itself into a return to the old political strife between and French France and the Habsburgs.

Its conclusion was prematurely greeted as the end of a period of economic strife between the two halves of the monarchy and as a pledge of a decade of peaceful development.

In the later stage of the strife it has been the battle-field of Christendom and Islam.

The older religious differences were small compared with the strife for life and death between Christendom and Islam.

Furthermore, apart from the gradual disintegration of the empire, Athens was disturbed by political strife.

Internal strife prevented the new negus of Abyssinia from prosecuting the war, which thus, in spite of the Abyssinian success, resulted in the increased prestige of the khalifa.

Johannes Carsten Hauch (q.v.; 1790-1872) first distinguished himself as a disciple of Ohlenschlger, and fought under him in the strife against the old school and Baggesen.

During the first seven or eight years of his settled life in his native city from 1495, he betrays a conflict of artistic tendencies as well as no small sense of spiritual strain and strife.

The king and council were proclaimed judges in all cases; preachers were to submit to their judicature when accused of political offences, a standing cause of strife.

Prelacy was " Baal worship," and the kirk thus turned the strife in the direction of religious ferocity.

A strife arose between Hamilton, who wished to disband the Covenanting army, and Argyll, and gradually the struggle was between Hamilton and the sympathizers with the imprisoned king and Argyll at the head of (or under the heels of) the more fanatical preachers and Presbyterians.

The situation developed into ruin under the strife of the wilder and the gentler preachers.

The grounds of strife were the spread in the Y y g P of " liberal " religious ideas; on one side heretical and anti-Calvinistic doctrines, and on the other a tendency to stretch Calvinistic principles till they were scarcely to be distinguished from Antinomianism.

We have no idea who the disciple may have been who thus seized upon the sadder elements of the teaching of Jesus; but we may well think of him as one of those who were living in Palestine in the dark and threatening years of internecine strife, when the Roman eagles were gathering round their prey, and the first thunder was muttering of the storm which was to leave Jerusalem a heap of stones.

For many years after this date the condition of the country was one bordering upon anarchy, and into the faction strife which was continually going on Kruger freely entered.

Most of the other references relate to the strife of Michael and Satan about the body of Moses, and ascribe it to the Ascensio Mosis, i.e.

He was accepted as arbiter and his decision brought an end to the strife.

Despite frequent internal strife, the sultans of the Deccan retained their independence until conquered by the Mogul emperor Aurangzeb in the latter half of the 17th century.

The urgency of foreign affairs, and subsequently internal strife at the council table, hindered Hastings from developing farther the system of civil administration, a task finally accomplished by Lord Cornwallis.

Nicholas issued the bull Exiit on the 14th of August 1279 to settle the strife within the Franciscan order between the parties of strict and loose observance.

There is in reality no room for suspecting Moawiya of not having been in earnest when making this appeal; he might well regret that internecine strife should drain the forces which were so much wanted for the spread of Islam.

The Seljuk princes were too much absorbed by internal strife to concentrate against the new assailants.

It was entangled also in the political strife of the feudal ages and of the beginning of modern empires.

Historically these principles were only in part embodied, for the Reformation was involved in political strife.

Renaissance and Reformation were, moreover, already at strife.

While affirming that he was "no friend of slavery" he held abolition and the abolitionists responsible for the hatred, strife, disruption and carnage that menaced the nation.

The period of the Commonwealth was filled with the strife between these two parties, its bitterness not lessened by the fact that the assembly dissolved in 1653 by Cromwell's soldiers was not allowed to meet again in his protectorate.

Sacked and burned time after time during the Border strife, it was inevitable that the townsmen should become keen fighters.

Intestine strife among the West Saxons followed.

We learn further that about the time of Hygelac's death strife broke out in the royal family of the Svear, between Onela, the son and successor of Ongentheow, and Eanmund and Eadgils, the sons of his brother Ohthere.

In order to avoid the intestine strife so common in Italian civic life, it soon became the custom to select a stranger to fill this position.

In considering, however, the subsequent disorders and wars, it must be borne in mind that they affected only individual portions of the empire, and only on isolated occasions involved more extensive areas in long and serious strife.

But, for these successes, the empire had to thank the internecine strife of its Greek opponents, rather than its own strength.

The internal history of the Parthian dominion is an unbroken sequence of civil war and dynastic strife.

A ducal commission, appointed to find a means for ending the interminable strife between the rival academic parties, entrusted Eck with the preparation of fresh commentaries on Aristotle and Petrus Hispanus.