What's the difference between disagreement and strife?

Disagreement


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
  • (n.) Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
  • (n.) Difference of opinion or sentiment.
  • (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
  • (2) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
  • (3) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
  • (4) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
  • (5) We report the use of a technique for developing guidelines which explicitly seeks to identify areas of agreement and disagreement, and focuses on the reasons that particular decisions were made and the causes of disagreement.
  • (6) Rating disagreements were resolved by a skilled dermatologist who acted as adjudicator.
  • (7) Disagreement in differentiation between simple and complex partial seizures (CPS) probably reflects the limitations of the clinical method rather than of the questionnaire itself.
  • (8) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (9) The difference in actual withdrawal scores and amount of shared variance between the observer and self-ratings were used as indices of disagreement for each individual subject.
  • (10) Unexpected reactions in disagreement with H-2 genetics were detected in both tumours but not in fibroblast line.
  • (11) Disagreement between observers concerning 11 (11%) of the patients resulted from differences of opinion about whether minor changes in sellar outline represented an abnormality or merely a normal variation.
  • (12) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (13) Consequently, discussion and disagreement about the disease is common and some of these aspects are outlined here.
  • (14) The use of phenylpropanolamine (PPA) as an anorectic has provoked commentary and disagreement.
  • (15) There were 23 disagreements between paired readers resulting in an overall interobserver reliability of 95.7 per cent.
  • (16) Although much more information is being disclosed to cancer patients than in the past, there is still considerable disagreement about how much information should be conveyed.
  • (17) Presently a serious disagreement is brewing between the contested president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, over government subsidies.
  • (18) Disagreements among staff about the appropriateness of clinical decisions can lower staff morale and negatively affect the work environment.
  • (19) The shutdown of oil production over a disagreement on how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for using Khartoum's pipelines threatens to exacerbate conditions in South Sudan, which has some of the worst development indicators in the world, particularly in health and education.
  • (20) Disagreements that did occur tended to involve organisms that were drug susceptible by the Autobac 1 system but intermediate or resistant by the other two methods.

Strife


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of striving; earnest endeavor.
  • (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
  • (n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
  • (n.) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (2) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
  • (3) Overall, the couples who successfully completed therapy were in less strifeful marriages and were confronted with specific life change events as opposed to the couples who dropped out, who gave evidence of chronic marital difficulties.
  • (4) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
  • (5) Many blamed that failure for the industrial strife which dogged the Wilson and Callaghan governments over the following decade.
  • (6) On the biggest question of our time – Britain’s membership of the European Union, internal strife has left the government without a clear position, as party interest trumps national interest.
  • (7) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (8) Organised crime has taken hold and human trafficking has flourished thanks to arranged marriages, giving rise to more family strife.
  • (9) Sam Akaki Democratic Institutions for Poverty Reduction in Africa • There are calls for the EU to act to save migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean, but where are the calls for the UN to tackle the strife and oppression in South Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan … which are the root cause of this problem?
  • (10) After an extraordinary year, experts say the site now faces a series of challenges – not least the problem of how to keep getting bigger in the face of government interventions and its own internal strife.
  • (11) Current western complacency and silence will only bring more chaos and strife.
  • (12) Their first season in the Premier League has seen further off-field strife with the sacking as head of recruitment of Iain Moody , who was replaced by a friend of Tan's son who has no football background.
  • (13) Yet to black Americans who are all too familiar with the burdens of segregation and the struggle for equality, this idyllic image of a gentle country without racial strife sounds like absurd propaganda.
  • (14) Sunday's poll brought months of strife to a bloody climax, with 19 people reported killed in unrest across the country .
  • (15) Libya’s spiral into chaos is a story of international neglect as well as of domestic strife.
  • (16) Then the total trends of the suicide rate were reexamined in comparison with a control group, and the recent trends after the student strife (1970) were confirmed in comparison with the 15-year period before the strife.
  • (17) Her case that the state had become too dominant and that trade union power needed to be curbed seemed plausible given the industrial strife of the winter of discontent.
  • (18) The expectation that care will be provided to old people by their daughters or daughters-in-law may be frustrated if the younger generation of women are disabled or otherwise engaged, resulting in possible family strife or rejection.
  • (19) Decades of ethnic strife in India's north-east have forced hundreds of thousands of young people to move out of the region in search of education and employment.
  • (20) I’m not consciously melancholic – in fact, I am often the opposite – so that melancholy feel must come from the way I use chords.” Stolen Recordings William Doyle, aka East India Youth, on Total Strife Forever (Stolen Recordings) “ Total Strife Forever was a really important step for me personally.