Throughout our history two strands have coexisted uneasily; a dominant strand of democratic humanism and a lesser but durable strand of intolerant Puritanism.

The punk aesthetic was a dominant strand from 1982 to 1986 in the art galleries of the city's East Village.

Its embrace of government led to their intertwinement, with business becoming the dominant strand.

Those were the dominant strands that ran through the agreement signed last week: Israel fighting for its security, the Palestinians seeking control over their lands and an end to humiliation.

The solemnity does not last long, or rather, it continues, but only as a whispered bass line in a song whose dominant strands blare, tickle, lilt and, above all, exhilarate.

The more radical ideas of Sidney and Locke, argues Ward, became marginalized in Britain, but emerged as a dominant strand in American republicanism.

The dominant strand of criticism to the contrary holds that the plan was intended to represent an ideal and was never meant to be carried out at a particular site.

I think there's always been a dominant strand in American culture which despises intellectuals.

A dominant strand in Labour's school improvement strategy for the last decade (and latterly extended to two other regions), it must have some important lessons.

By the mid-19th century this form of religion and Bible interpretation had become a dominant strand in American religious, moral and political discourse, almost serving as a de facto state religion.