Sentences with phrase «planned violent clashes»

At the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, Kathy and fellow SDS radicals planned violent clashes with the police and telephoned bomb threats to hotels.

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This essentially materialist approach — heroic valor, violent conquest, the clash of civilizations — gained increased academic standing from the neocolonial interpretation in René Grousset's three - volume Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934 — 1936) and the planned U.S. multivolume collaborative History of the Crusades devised in the 1940s by the group of Crusade historians that had gathered around Dana C. Munro (1866 — 1933) and later John La Monte (1902 — 1949).

President Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight for a two - day break from a summer vacation on the Vineyard, during which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans.