This choice gives expression to a fundamental clash of identities that is becoming ever more apparent in the city - a clash between British and Chinese Hong Kong.

There is a fundamental clash of interests because your employer is your employer and not your friend.

What happened in the final two minutes of Bowman's program symbolized a fundamental ideological clash in figure skating: who has the ultimate artistic control over a performance, the coach or the skater?

But South Korean and American officials realize that just below their surface unity sits a fundamental clash in perspective.

Schism is an organizational dispute, a challenge to hierarchy; heresy is a more fundamental theological clash, such as begun by Martin Luther.

Shoes, more than any other article of clothing, so often lead to a fundamental clash between who I am versus who I want to be.

To the Editor: David Brooks brilliantly describes the fundamental clash of two very different civilizations and the philosophical cleavage of East and West.

"There are many scenarios in which there is a fundamental clash between medical ethics and religious ethics," said Eve Gartner, the lawyer who filed the suit.

And that fundamental clash, which both sides had hoped to keep under wraps during the Pope's trip, veered up at the worst possible moment.

He added that it could also send a signal to Islamic nations that there is not a fundamental clash between the West and nations with a Muslim majority.