clashing interests of loggers and conservationists.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : The gears of the old car clashed and grated. ,The cymbals clashed. ,Their stories of the accident clashed completely. ,The Yankees clash with the White Sox for the final game of the season.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He clashed his fist against the heavy door. ,The tower bell clashed its mournful note.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : The automobiles collided with a terrible clash. ,a clash between nations. ,The clash between the border patrols left three men dead.    From Dictionary.com. 

Last week, a blitz to the glitz of Las Vegas resulted in clashing and trashing between Camille and Kyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight's TV Hot List: Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010] Reference

Weissmuller recalls clashing with the nuns on campus.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

He flings his sword clashing into one scale, and it weighs down all that is in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

Mallory Price recalls clashing with a staff member during her undergraduate years at a small.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

All the luxuriousness of his verse has gone, and the lines ring like sword clashing against sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference

The flurry of sword clashing and aerobatic dramatic battles make up a majority of the game's combat.    From Wordnik.com.  [StuffWeLike.com] Reference

But now, anything is possible: If there are people and parties arguing and clashing, that is because they are free to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Election Day] Reference

Charles Sturridge, the director, recalled clashing with American television executives before the series was broadcast in the US.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Severe weather tomorrow, though, almost because of this cold air that's kind of clashing with warm air.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2009] Reference

So me getting super-cuddly and wanting to be with him all the time is kind of clashing with his need for some time on his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference

India has clashing security concerns with China in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bigger Clubhouse] Reference

But then Michael started clashing with the Schindlers over money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Has The Right To Die?] Reference

And I think there was more than just a case of clashing egos going on here.    From Wordnik.com.  [McChrystal Resigns, Obama Names Petraeus] Reference

But by 1986, Gates's conservative style was clashing with Nishi's flamboyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japanese Steve Jobs] Reference

A minimalist, he pushes clashing chords against each other with simple voicings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bodacious New Voice From Jazz's Far Side] Reference

Their conversation is a chaos of unfinished, short-circuited, clashing sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tough Lesson In Sexual Harassment] Reference

What if they can be seen as complementing, rather than clashing with, each other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Tea Party Could Help All of Us] Reference

But today, she doesn't have a burning love for clashing patterns and riotous colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugly Takes A Last Walk] Reference

But the world should take notice: the titans back in Washington are no longer clashing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heading To Battle] Reference

The EU needs a rival because a union develops itself by clashing with the outside world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Iraq's Guerrilla War] Reference

That evaporated after he broke with Mr. Fini, accusing him of clashing with the party line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy's Leader Prevails in Crucial Test Of Coalition] Reference

At 25 he became more involved with Field Enterprises, eventually clashing with his brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Marshal] Reference

Yet this disheartening evidence of clashing cultures conceals a far more heartening reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Problem With the Veil] Reference

At their most agile, Tejano musicians negotiate the boundary between two sometimes clashing cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born On The Border] Reference

The pick-up artists forage and roam the dark corners, hovering and clashing like fluorescent dragonflies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugly People] Reference

Such clashing views can make an evening at camp seem like a particularly emotional session of "Crossfire.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shark Hunt In The Night] Reference

Like the Balkans in Europe, Tibet occupies an Asian fault zone of clashing cultures and big-power politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Balkan Crisis] Reference

A National Security Council official says the clashing ideologies are driving the Iraq debate "a great deal.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawks, Doves And Dubya] Reference

Rice apparently saw her role as Bush's private adviser, not a referee between clashing titans in the cabinet.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I HAVEN'T SUFFERED DOUBT'] Reference

It's about clashing cultures and generations, about people with too much history in their blood or none at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand Entrance] Reference

I need to go to sleep or I need to prepare my interview or whatever, and those things are always clashing in me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets] Reference

Students who had spent their energy clashing with police over politics gradually turned to environmental issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth Of A New Taipei] Reference

As Ahmadinejad supporters take to the streets in celebration, so do thousands of protesters, clashing with police.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Twitter Timeline of the Iran Election] Reference

Famous actresses would probably pick up on details like clashing toenails — after all, it's part of their job to look glamorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noreen's Birthday Lunch] Reference

  He's still haunted by how the sounds of metal clashing with bone could be heard far afield from beneath that thick bamboo patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonlit Mariposa] Reference

When his budget-cutting precipitated a recession in 1937, he was quick to abandon economic ideology in the face of a clashing reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echoes Of Fdr] Reference

If they allow the Blair-Brown transition to slide into the chaos of clashing egos, the great unraveling of the Labour Party could begin.    From Wordnik.com.  [BLAIR'S FINAL ACT] Reference