So it was an uneasy proximity that these church-abiding citizens shared with people who saw religious devotion and marital fidelity as pillars of respectability needing to be toppled.

Since the discovery of oil, Saudi Arabia's wealth has existed in uneasy proximity to the country's ascetic Islamic foundations.

Spain, like many of its partners in the European Union, is a rich country with a fast-aging population, a low birthrate, a growing aversion to menial jobs and an uneasy proximity to lands of poverty.

But it may be that the United States has already offered one kind of an answer, creating a society in which faith and reason continually cohabit in uneasy proximity, and iconoclasm is as commonplace as belief.

To either side old farmhouses and new villas stood in uneasy proximity.

Jews and Muslims worship in the shrine in uneasy proximity, chanting prayers in a mosque and in adjacent prayer areas converted into a synagogue.

Somewhere in the tortured mental software that governs eating behavior, the pleasure principle lives in more or less uneasy proximity to the efficiency principle.

This time, the problem lies not in Mr. Zhang's film but in its uneasy proximity to a politically sensitive work.

After the failed penalty kick, fighting broke out at the far end of the field, where English and Argentine fans sat in uneasy proximity, but the disturbance appeared to be quickly contained.

Many Hasidic women walked alone to services, passing through streets where blacks and Jews live in close, uneasy proximity.