Architects, too, have been caught in a stalemate between conflicting visions of public life.

The film centers on the struggle between conflicting visions of America.

Maybe so, but this entertainer in transition clearly embodies a tug-of-war between conflicting visions.

As a new president, Leland Miles, took office in 1974, the administration and faculty were forming conflicting visions of the university.

And it is not clear how well Mr. Gulotta's proposed commission will satisfy the various constituencies' conflicting visions of the new group.

Challenges included resolving conflicting visions of the site's future.

Those who stuck it out journeyed between conflicting visions of fear and hope.

Pitt had been a strident critic of Newcastle for years, and they had separate, conflicting visions of strategy.

Indeed, the carousel, which was built in 1922, has been caught between conflicting visions of how to develop the once-sleepy waterfront.

The James Bay dispute involves starkly conflicting visions of the landscape.