How To Use Conflict In A Sentence

China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
Goal conflicts make this socio-economic leap extremely difficult for any individual to absorb.
Some find it repugnant, others see them as casualties in an undeclared war that is greatly preferable to the alternative of full-scale conflict. Times, Sunday Times
It highlights key facets of presidential policies and priorities, difficulties and conflicts, while charting the developing nature of the office.
The conflict threatens to spill over into neighbouring regions.

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This isn't an attempt to universalize, for there is rich, specific detail everywhere: food, foliage, the course of the conflict. The Times Literary Supplement
I hope my work on the evolution of cooperation helps the world avoid conflict.
Well, having the largest economy confers an advantages in affording a very large military, and having a very large military was useful in the era of great power military conflicts. Matthew Yglesias » Will China Ever Dominate?
Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver. Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
Russia may still prefer to stay neutral in the bloody conflict with Iraq.
These warlords continue to exercise their authority by means of force and firepower, and often engage in sporadic armed conflict against one another.
Nonetheless, this era had the same conflicts (over cultural diversity and nativism, for example) as later periods, and established lasting policies toward immigrants and aliens.
This was not a killing in the heat and exercise of armed conflict. The Sun
His optimism was misplaced and the conflict continued for four years. Times, Sunday Times
Annan says robust monitoring by international observers will be key to resolving the devastating conflict.
These issues are being played out in Britain because it has become the focus of this incendiary global conflict.
A conflict may arise between the pressure to prepare young people for independent living, and their continued need for support.
In total, nearly 7,000 people have died in communal conflicts since 1999.
A very real danger exists of the conflict becoming internationalised.
We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
Secondly, to stop paramilitary activities, thirdly significant disarmament, and fourthly, a public statement that conflict is over.
We are so inured to the news, it's refreshing to have the conflict described by somebody who was there.
There was not the same sense of hopelessness that prevailed in previous conflicts.
With this move from conflict to collaboration have come shifts in the language of forestry itself.
More than a fight between armies, the Middle East conflict is a clash between two national stories.
This course focuses on the theory and practice of violence and nonviolence from a gender and feminist perspective, and deals with social conflicts at interpersonal, intergroup, and intersocietal levels. Short courses in gender and peacebuilding (University for Peace)
Rupert was naughty in that he voted undirected proxies and he didn't answer the question when Crikey asked that he not do this given that he had a conflict of interest and wasn't voting his own stake.
It is imperative that couples should communicate in order to know the root of the conflict.
In its classic sense, war means an armed conflict between two sovereign nations disputing control of territory.
Wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress--or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict.
His inner conflict is related to struggles in the outer world.
Press coverage of this long-term infrastructural build-up has been remarkably minimal, given the implications for future conflicts in the oil heartlands of the planet. Nick Turse: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region
Onions, garlic and leeks are found to have conflicting images throughout much of the world.
It is not surprising that such a view has led to very considerable conflict.
Now, the Pastons had recourse to the courts, but also felt able to join the political conflict themselves.
The elements selected from the confusion of conflicting movements have this different and very distinctive bias.
They called the prospects of U.S. success in Iraq "farfetched," writing: "We are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasing manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007
uncoordinated scheduling often resulted in conflicting games
It is rare for the responsibility for causing conflict to rest solely on one side.
The Bush doctrine is being evoked as a template for conflict resolution worldwide.
The three-layer system architecture of conflict detection based on fuzzy constraint network is put forward. A corresponding prototype is developed and its running process is described.
The conflict was very fierce, and took place when the captain and I were at the xebeque, and before we could separate them four of them had fallen; two were killed, and the other two badly wounded. The Privateersman
I think they are likely to lead to conflicts between fragments and fractions within ruling corporate elites.
Two circulars of our state council about bankruptcy penetrate the precedency of legal effect, come into conflict with several upper laws, and violate the fair compensable principle of bankrupt system.
The conflict claims roughly four civilian lives for every soldier or alleged guerrilla killed.
He is a great actor and seeing him go from lost rogue to confused son to driven billionnaire to a conflicted hero is a blast.
Premium cable - that is, unsponsored channels you pay for separately - doesn't have those constraints and is free to show us conflicts untempered by political correctness.
She was the first sniffer dog to be killed in the conflict and was commended for bravery. The Sun
And will he make clear, by his word and deed, that his goal in this conflict is Palestinian statehood, which is American policy and American's goal, and not the destruction of Israel, which, of course, America could never accept. CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002
Directors who are aware of a conflict of interest in any proposed contract are required to draw it to the attention of the board, but may thereafter take part in any vote on the matter.
The next task is to assist in identifying the specific areas of conflict. Christianity Today
At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism. A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
A satisfactory and lasting result in the water context cannot be achieved and should not be attempted by wholly divorcing consideration of the overriding conflict.
They derive all their income from product providers, which presents a huge conflict of interest in trying to provide unbiased information. Times, Sunday Times
There are human conflicts, but they are by their nature curable, because there's always a higher principle, lurking in the background.
Today, on the Sunday closest to what used to be called Armistice Day, thousands will gather around war memorials, in country churchyards and civic centres to remember the dead of armed conflicts since 1914.
Is it only a war zone for constitutional suspension clause purposes if the detainee is accused of being involved with the localized conflict (this would follow with Eisentrager too)? The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base
He seems keen on conflict, pitting the countryside against the city.
And its recent past is not fraught with the kind of conflicts that scriptwriters drool over.
In the event of conflicting priorities, the original property rights of owners and commoners should prevail.
Is there a chance of a negotiated settlement to the conflict?
German's work; but what perhaps the world calls charlatanism in him is really only the reaction of genius when it comes into conflict with the brutal obstinacy of real life. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
This conflict raises a question mark over the judge's reasoning.
Typically the characters of a masque would be classical deities or abstract qualities such as a Virtue and Beauty, contrasted with rustic figures, and the story would represent an archetypal conflict proceeding to resolution.
This conflict causes psychic pain and symptoms of distress. Know Your Own Mind
Their major claimed benefits may overplay the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise and underplay issues such as social conflict, cultural difference and opportunism.
Much of Barbarossa's continual political conflict was connected to administrative matters of this sort.
The play explores children's honest if naive attempts to reconcile conflicts between rules of peer friendship and the expectations of parents.
Bush/Cheney and company dicked around the Afghanistan conflict for almost eight years. Axelrod slams Romney
Why has the era of globalization been characterized by an intensification of tribalism and ethnic conflict?
It would seem as though the historical monopoly on information previously enjoyed by real estate brokerages is starting to disappear, and the profession will involve less horse trading, and there will be a fewer number of more highly qualified and scrupulous agents adding value as advocates to real estate deals, paid not out of the proceeds – which I consider a real conflict of interest – but for their time. Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine
As long as the conflict goes on here, it's logical to assume that the attitudes of all sides will harden, which is deeply regrettable. Top Israel Rabbis: Don't Sell Property To Non-Jews
The Federal Aviation Administration is also notified to ensure that there is no conflict with civilian air traffic, she said.
It is a new beginning, but few expect Africa to stride gracefully into the future if the people of Africa must carry the heavy baggage of decades of corruption, conflict and misrule along for the ride.
Conflict between contending groups may be resolved, lessened, or contained through the use of ‘medical diplomacy’ or health oriented superordinate goals
Data on gender differences in self-reported emotional intensity and expressivity are conflicting.
For the media it is a conflict conducted in a series of military campaigns.
The violence, the conflict, the clashes have become worse and worse. The Sun
But this idea does point in the right general direction: toward a kind of inner conflict, toward what I have called a kind of "brokenness" in the human psyche, and in particular toward a failure of integration within the person of the creature's feelings and needs and impulses on the one hand, and the moral injunctions internalized from the socializing culture on the other. A Piece (from Huffington Post) on the Right's Manifest Hypocrisy Problem
The hotel opened shortly before the conflict began three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Such a conflict can only intensify the obsessive way in which parents turn their parenting style into a cause. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress--or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict.
This is especially true when you need to discuss a conflict involving a colleague or family member.
We are bound together in this bloody conflict where the body counts have to break double digits to really get our attention anymore.
One of the most important things will be to stop the two countries from blundering into conventional conflict without realising the risk.
More than 40 million people had been displaced during the conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Conflict transformation avoids allocating blame or dwelling on the past, no matter how painful, in order to try to achieve shared futures.
They had arranged to meet in front of the library on the day war was declared, to voice their opposition to what they believed was an unjust and unnecessary conflict.
Thus this type of conflict is treated as an isolated exception against the backdrop of assumed consensus.
It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
It seemed to me to symbolise how the Northern conflict had effaced so much personal history.
But to suggest that the conflict was over political rather than intellectual matters is to introduce a false antithesis.
Hormonal factors appear to play a conflicting role in the regulation of salt and water balance under conditions of pulmonary insufficiency.
Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict. March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
Canadian diamonds are mined in the Northwest Territories, and this is one alternative to ensure that your diamond purchase does not support conflict.
When conflicts arise between perception and reasoning, the concrete operational child makes judgments based on reasoning.
The aim of these fine distinctions, not to say hair-splitting, is to deny the Marxist thesis that the driving forces of the war were rooted in economic and geopolitical conflicts of the major capitalist powers.
Procedures include applying frameworks and principles for ethical decision making and are important in situations of conflict or mistrust when we are faced with dilemmas or quandaries in practice.
The results of the new research would seem to conflict with existing theories.
Wrestling now with conflicting emotions, she settled for anger. A WORM OF DOUBT
Betas can come in many forms—from competent wingmen to extreme introverts who are so determined to avoid conflict they suffer anxiety of their own. Are Alpha Males Healthy?
The dilemma, like all ethical dilemmas, arose by virtue of a conflict between values.
A conflict or a frustration is not necessarily pathogenic.
And finally he doubts it only when chirognomy conflicts with physiognomy. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
I will limit myself to noting that the legal answer is, in my view, yes — but how you get to yes differs depending upon whether you think this particular targeting is in an armed conflict in a strict legal sense, or whether you think it is an act of legitimate self-defense, as the Legal Adviser referenced in his ASIL speech. The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
Do British immigration laws conflict with any international laws?
We haven ` t felt it necessary to turn a lot of people into enemy combatants, as we have in this conflict, which is -- and I understand that after 9/11, there was a great desire to -- and I think right now, we should be -- kind of calibrate our responses because I think some of ... CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005
On the basis of this mutual agreement of the two parties, according to which each of them defends only his claims and his cause, renouncing all personal or egoistic considerations, the conflict is fought with unattenuated sharpness, following its own intrinsic logic, and being neither intensified nor moderated by subjective factors. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
If we do that in the case of Bosnia, it is not so difficult to understand why a middle course of muddling through was originally chosen: it is the response that one would expect from any statesman or stateswoman who had a genuine desire to safeguard humanitarian values but no compelling national interest to become directly involved in a conflict and persuasive prudential reasons to stay out.
The obscure legal status of these territories and zones often leads to disputes and conflicts.
In other words, we are confronted with an intractable conflict attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
For some time there was a conflict of jurisdiction between the bishop's reeves and the interests of the Gild Merchant.
However, one should note that Kahneman and Henik's dual displays consisted of an integrated display (a color word printed in a conflicting color) and a redundant uncolored display.
His views on the literal truth of the Bible brought him into conflict with other Christian leaders.
I hope my work on the evolution of cooperation helps the world avoid conflict.
Certain people were responsible for stopping conflicts, and there were ways to deal with provocations and ways to make peace.
Legend Potential areas of conflict Roads Railroads Threats to the troopsIn planning the peacekeeping operation, army officials are preparing U.S. troops for Bosnia's many dangers: 1 As many as 1,000 Islamic fundamentalists, called mujahedin, are operating independently in Bosnia and could harm U.S. troops. Gearing Up For Peace
Sometimes a little lie helps to strengthen relationships, or to avoid unnecessary conflicts and tensions. Sometimes omitting certain truth serves to protect ourselves and others. Dr T.P.Chia
He calls the episode ‘perhaps the most tragic example of the exportation of conflict.’
Stripped of any political content, today's conflicts in Northern Ireland are now what many wrongly assumed them to be during the Troubles: base, atavistic, sectarian clashes.
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills. Times, Sunday Times
You come to important conclusions and finish an ongoing saga of conflict today.
Inequality and poverty breed class conflict.
There have been periodic violent boundary conflicts ever since.
Subjects within international relations include war, interstate conflict resolution, international law, regional alliances, colonialism, and international organizations.
How does an organization go about achieving this harmonious blend of conflicting interests?
Videogames imply conflict, either between players, or a single player battling a computer.
Our experience in conflicts over the past decade has revealed the changing nature of warfare.
For the next few hours the conflict would wax and wane. Christianity Today
But in the mid-1970s there was an acrimonious conflict between the different intelligence gathering agencies in the province.
Despite the emphasis on consistency among beliefs, individuals in the elite can support core values that are in conflict.
Democratic participation, fair and free elections and effective governance need to be institutionalised and made routine, or non-violent means to resolve political crises could be replaced by remobilisation of militias, with significant risk of violent conflict. Crisis Group
Troy is certainly heir to the throne of alpha male, so there's going to be that natural organic energy of conflict that happens between the silverbacks and the branch crashers as we say in primatology. Is Community Really Going to Be "Less Weird" This Year?
The last, for instance, explores the conflict between cultural traditions and powerful assimilative tendencies.
This is a fight for life or death — yon waterfall sounds the alarum for our conflict. — Anne of Geierstein
Conflict will only arise if we practice prejudice against either wisdom or faith.
Expectations that contradict actual experience cause stress for survivors and potential conflicts with family, work, and the medical team.
-- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar. Archive 2009-11-01
Recent national events helped turn the simmering discord into open conflict.
Gambians tend to be soft-spoken and gentle in demeanor, seeking to avoid noisy conflicts and striving toward quiet settlement of disputes.
The relevant pattern of that maritime conflict in the Mediterranean region had not begun then; but, it expressed a pattern which is notable, still today, as being continued through the time of what were called the Punic Wars, and beyond. LaRouche's Latest
The Spanish civil war ushered in a new era in which the civilian population was enmeshed in the conflict.
And this conflict does not disappear when we move from veridical perceptions of natural facts to veridical perceptions of social facts.
This was the first conflict that embedded journalists, and the military found it worked wonders. Times, Sunday Times
They stop work, attend to and resolve before sleep any inharmonious conditions that may arise, knowing that creativity lies dormant while conflict prevails.
US Republican Senator Judd Gregg withdrew Thursday as the nominee for Secretary of Commerce, citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration over its economic stimulus plan.
Why would the these companies feel the need wrest control of the governing bodies, ignore conflicts of interest and insist on being able to hand-pick the researchers in areas of research as controversial and potentially as expensive and lucrative as climate change? RP Siegel: What Price Impartiality? Top Universities Sell Their Reputations to Big Oil
We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
If this leave-taking is difficult, complex and conflict-filled for most young adults, it is doubly so for adoptees.
But -- with a "twoness of being" that DuBois probably didn't imagine when he coined the term -- it was a deeply conflicted moment. Terrance Heath: Marriage Matters to Us
The best kind of storytelling is when writers turn a mirror on ourselves, and that mirror shows us a lot of conflict. Archive 2006-07-01
Both sides have been accused of committing atrocities in a conflict that also displaced almost five million people. Times, Sunday Times
For in any situation of war or conflict, women shoulder the greatest burden.
The warring factions are attempting to negotiate an end to the conflict.
Hearing those involved talk about the 1982 conflict conjures up images more vivid than any photograph. Times, Sunday Times
Both blundered about as others plunged the world into conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Houghton's plays dealt with revolt against parental authority and generational conflict.
Gillis, formerly of New Haven, Conn., had been covering the conflict in Libya for weeks when she was taken with Foley, of New Hampshire, and Varela, who works under the name Manu Brabo. Journalists freed from Libya tell of harrowing odyssey
Second, it would be up to him, as the lawyer, to be best placed to identify a conflict.
Since the conflict began 2.2m people across the country have fled their homes. Times, Sunday Times
Preexisting vulnerabilities and individual characteristics may intensify role disruption and interpersonal conflict in the couple dyad, while reducing relationship functioning.
Both sides were drawn, willy-nilly, into the conflict.
It is very difficult to express emotions in email or news; your joking comment appear to be very serious to the recipient and can lead to unmeant reactions or conflicts (flames); so use emoticons to express your intention.
MBN conflict sounds a lot like what some call the “aesthetic” conflict, though it seems you are emphasing its informational basis more than it’s merely formal basis. have read any schiller? i’m thinking specificially of the aesthetic education of man a series of letters. 4GW, Nation-Building as Soft-Colonization,Time Ranges in War/Conflict, and Meme Wars « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
There, in introducing and explaining the meaning and purport of Article 2 and having regard to the grave breaches system of the Geneva Conventions, reference is made to international armed conflicts.
Conflict has simplistically been blamed on stock-thieves, but police have also been accused of taking sies, and Mhlaba has alleged organised crime and politics also fueled the conflict. ANC Daily News Briefing
Tatiana wondered why Dasha always had to euphemize war into a campaign or a conflict. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
The conflict lies in the fact that this second pole has for centuries been condemned as negative, subversive.
In short, a majority of Americans, according to pollsters, decidedly prefer interparty consensus to interparty conflict. Party rivalry past and present
Even while the military endgame played out in Abidjan, post-conflict development specialists were presumably drawing up plans for interventions such as disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, security sector reform, and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons. Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern
This theory does rely upon a swift resolution, and a prolonged conflict would have an equally opposite and negative reaction to the rebound in the global economy and stock markets.
The relationship between the two countries has eased since the beginning of the talks on the border conflicts.
Armed with this tool, an ID proponent can "disprove" evolution by simply shifting between the two conflicting definitions without reference to anything about the original structure. A Decade Spanning Single Exchange
Both blundered about as others plunged the world into conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Increased tourist flow may increase conflict with tigers and encroach on their habitat.
Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
The famous device of conflict upon which all stories are supposed to hinge starts within the writer.
The national organizer of a Ghanaian youth association is calling on elders and traditional rulers to help resolve a brewing conflict over a chieftaincy dispute. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
The word 'coward' is a strong one, but the reality is that because we have such wildly different perspectives on why racial disparities exist, and because they continue to exist long after explicit racism has been outlawed, discussion of racial issues requires a high degree of tolerance for conflict, both intellectual and emotional. Guest Post:: It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right
The future is already potentially present in the shape of the blind spots and contradictions of the present - in its silences and exclusions, its conflicts and fragmentations.
Darfur is a place where "evil lives", so they have completely "moralized" the conflict and presented it as a struggle against evil. RaceWire
Yet, as Bolger leisurely sets the stage for the coming conflict, the story comes alive.
While claiming to give unbiased information to consumers, the sites inevitably face conflicts of interest. Times, Sunday Times
The media can contribute significantly by taking a responsible and impartial stance on conflicts and violence.
Managers who want to master the method and tactic of resolving conflict.
In this case the conflict is between the urge to flee from the predator and the urge to attack it.
For years the region has been torn apart by armed conflicts.
The evolution versus creation controversy is really a conflict between two histories of death.
Version 8. 0 also comes with an improved installation routine that is faster and better able to anticipate conflicts.
Because she feels that historical facts were creatively interpreted in the run up to the conflict, she invented her own lexis to convey her stance.
Its effect is to confine any exceptions to certain special cases provided such excepted use does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
There was no large-scale ethnic conflict resulting in a nation wide blood bath.
These conflicting results may be attributed to differences in the experimental set-up or the organisms used.
The US is also intensifying diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Western diplomats said there was little hope of brokering a end to the conflict without his blessing. Times, Sunday Times
Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
I feel torn between two conflicting impulses - my desire to be taken seriously as an intellectual, and my desire to share with others the absurd things that delight me.
They described a California study in which joint custody was sometimes awarded to resolve familial conflicts.

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