It did not take a great leap of imagination either to picture what would happen when that clash came.
But over the centuries, the big clashes between science and the authorities came to center on highly destructive arms.
The clash came after the police removed students blocking traffic on the most important highway around the capital.
It was inevitable that the clash for leadership should come.
These latest clashes come as dozens more have been killed in similar attacks over the past few weeks, across the city.
For the prime minister, the clash could not have come at a worse time.
The first clash came over de Gaulle's ideas on political union.
Such clashes should come as no surprise to anybody, since the causal factors have been in place for a long time.
Bludrigg was lost for words; the expected clash had not come.
The clashes came after the death of a student in Rangers custody.