Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through Macedonia today on a visit that illustrated Washington's continuing struggle to balance the diverse strands of its Kosovo policy.

The earliest work at Hirschl & Adler is a self-portrait from 1948 that indicates something about how he blended the diverse strands of his past.

There were highly diverse strands of Italian baroque painting, from Caravaggio to Cortona; both approaching emotive dynamism with different styles.

Of course Hamilton, Lincoln and Roosevelt were complicated individuals whose careers contained diverse and sometimes conflicting strands.

As a director, she has staged important shows, fusing genres and making used of diverse artistic strands.

The piece is a synthesis of several diverse strands.

The Specialty Service Industries Academy covers three diverse strands that have been identified as growth areas in the 21st century.

The lumpers try to synthesize diverse strands of their study; the splitters separate the whole into its parts.

Despite having a vague series of similarities, post-processualism consists of "very diverse strands of thought coalesced into a loose cluster of traditions".

Her family had links with many diverse political strands in Ireland.