How To Use Conflicting In A Sentence

Onions, garlic and leeks are found to have conflicting images throughout much of the world.
The elements selected from the confusion of conflicting movements have this different and very distinctive bias.
uncoordinated scheduling often resulted in conflicting games
In the event of conflicting priorities, the original property rights of owners and commoners should prevail.
Data on gender differences in self-reported emotional intensity and expressivity are conflicting.

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Hormonal factors appear to play a conflicting role in the regulation of salt and water balance under conditions of pulmonary insufficiency.
Wrestling now with conflicting emotions, she settled for anger. A WORM OF DOUBT
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.
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills. Times, Sunday Times
How does an organization go about achieving this harmonious blend of conflicting interests?
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
These conflicting results may be attributed to differences in the experimental set-up or the organisms used.
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.
There is conflicting evidence about the date of composition.
With two conflicting styles of dancing taking place simultaneously on sometimes crowded dance floors, collisions are bound to happen.
His insatiable desire for new challenges was matched by an ability to juggle huge numbers of conflicting projects at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
The other benefit comes when the decision maker synthesizes conflicting opinions or merely listens while experts argue among themselves.
Furthermore, two or more applications sharing processor time could be issuing conflicting instructions to the hardware.
Two studies of underarm antiperspirants and deodorants and breast cancer have provided conflicting results.
A Well-formed outcome is a term originating in neuro-linguistic programming for an outcome one wishes to achieve, that meets certain conditions designed to avoid (1) unintended costs or consequences and (2) resistance to achieving the goal resulting from internal conflicting feelings or thoughts about the outcome. [key stages 1-10] in becoming a worker bee
Evidence for the use of probiotics in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection has been conflicting.
For a moment Peng Yu-wei hesitated, his duty to chaperone the children conflicting with the explicit command of the young master.
The whole incident deteriorated rapidly as the conflicting claims snowballed into a near-crisis.
An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments.
Conflicting evidence exists regarding the relationship of chlamydial cervicitis and preterm labor.
Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts. 'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
In the beginning of the article, he prophetically states, "The results are somewhat conflicting."
Stand to Reason uses the term sibling rivalry to describe conflicting arguments used by the same party. 4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters
Our ability to navigate the compromises those conflicting rights necessitate is what makes us good at living collectively, or not. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Michael Shermer, Of All People, On Tolerable Atheism
The place was quite swish, I suppose, but the decor was vile: a real mishmash of conflicting styles.
Conflicting evidence suggests that swapping music either increases or reduces CD sales.
Deliberative commensurability is not necessary for proceeding rationally if conflicting considerations can be rationally dealt with in a holistic way that does not involve the appeal to a principle of Moral Reasoning
It may even be as the proponents of ‘lay epidemiology’ argue that the public is good at combining confused and conflicting information to reach a conclusion.
Separating the two conflicting partitions was a thick row of tall buildings and condominiums that ran right down the middle - a minute version of the dreaded Berlin Wall in the smallest of senses.
In contrast to monarchies in which the king had the power to separate conflicting factions, any such higher authority was absent in the Dutch Republic.
Because of the conflicting definitions, the use of the term reclamation can be confusing. AP Environmental Science Chapter 25- Issues and Options
There are conflicting views about what caused the accident.
A walk down Tokyo's main thoroughfares presents the modern observer with conflicting pictures.
Even supplements that are touted as treatment for menopausal symptoms, such as soy or black cohosh, have only conflicting data at best supporting their use, he said. Perimenopause: The change before 'the change'
The evidence of what took place at the meeting of July 14th is conflicting.
The conflicting images of Francoise warred in me: the sweet face which had become, during our perilous ANTI-ICE
In numerous House and Senate hearings, Congress heard conflicting testimony from expert witnesses.
It has been argued recently that the mind is a complex of conflicting and complementary memetic patterns seeking to reproduce.
The data on rising earnings comes amid conflicting signals about the job situation for technology professionals in the United States.
It must be said, however, that education policy is usually a morass of conflicting interests and alternative orientations.
Most people could be forgiven for feeling confused after a welter of conflicting reports about the right balance of food groups. Times, Sunday Times
The forex market is littered with failed trading platforms and initiatives, and multibank efforts are notoriously difficult to promote because of often conflicting interests. Banks Bid to Regain Forex Market Clout
A patchwork of conflicting laws will do nothing to improve the ease of use of e-mail communications.
As local residents and officials sifted through the wreckage there were conflicting reports about the precise number of dead and wounded. Times, Sunday Times
Your contribution may well resolve some of this difference or create more conflicting points for further argument.
But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.
They are used to resolving conflicting principles, says Dick Willems, a Dutch doctor and ethicist.
But considering the diglossia of modern Arabic (and the various sources of modern Iraqi Arabic), I don't find it difficult at all to believe that native speakers might have erroneous(sp?) or conflicting ideas about what things mean. Languagehat.com: ABU GHRAIB.
When confronted with a decision to take sides among two conflicting parties, it is always better to be fully devoted to one side than to be neutral.
Further muddying the outlook, Fed officials have offered conflicting signals on their policy predilections in recent weeks, with some pushing for a very aggressive stimulus and others highly skeptical of any additional accommodation. The Fed Quantitative Easing: What You Can Expect
The reason party fundraising remains an issue of such sensitivity is that voters themselves have conflicting views. Times, Sunday Times
As a result of diminishing confidence and conflicting internal impulses, the organization inevitably falls into patterns of self-defeating organizational behavior.
Philip could see David wilting as the conflicting desires to help his sister and to look for peace came against each other.
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills. Times, Sunday Times
With conflicting forensic evidence, the Crown's case was bolstered by an eminent paediatrician testifying that the chances of two cot deaths happening in this family was a vanishingly small 1 in 73 million.
Faith had been watching the conflicting emotions flicker over his face.
Ever since the very beginning the pentecostal phenomenon has been the subject of conflicting interpretations.
She also sympathetically records the sometimes conflicting desires of the participants, their fellow villagers and the local gentry. The Times Literary Supplement
Conflicting statistics: Inconsistent statistics may cause the optimizer to derive the wrong estimated costs and to make the wrong decision on access plan assessment.
She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions.
And Whitehurst suggested that, when technical instruments produced conflicting results, lab guidelines at times were unclear on how to proceed.
Sometimes there have been conflicting messages and signals. Times, Sunday Times
These results show that it is possible to completely reverse normal behavioral responses by presenting males with unanticipated and conflicting sensory cues.
Samples from a 55-gallon drum-one of several such containers found here -- initially turned up conflicting positive results for a mixture of mustard and cyclosarin agents, a lethal cocktail similar to that used in the notorious 1988 attack that killed thousands in the Kurdish city of Halabjah. The Hunt Goes On
The conflicting messages prompted a flurry of criticism. The Sun
The jury heard conflicting evidence from three different witnesses.
His insatiable desire for new challenges was matched by an ability to juggle huge numbers of conflicting projects at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
She also sympathetically records the sometimes conflicting desires of the participants, their fellow villagers and the local gentry. The Times Literary Supplement
Complete impartiality and neutrality are the necessary conditions for winning the trust of the conflicting sides.
However, the physiological reports in the literature are conflicting.
The debate is centred around two conflicting theories.
The awarded dates resulted in actual conflicting performances at the Bridgeport and Hartford frontons on 92 dates.
Herein lies the primary tension between the two conflicting and apparently contradictory trends regarding immigration throughout the west.
In the early centuries of the Church, there were maddeningly diverse and often conflicting beliefs on core issues such as the human and divine natures of Christ, the unity and trinity of God, and much else.
My suggestion for conference organizers would be to include optional (and non-schedule-conflicting) antisexist and antiracist workshops. So Now What? « Dyepot, Teapot
Little did he know he would be caught in a riptide of conflicting currents.
The UN is a pluralistic body with conflicting institutions and actors within it.
What we're down to here is conflicting rights.
Shoot, even Exxon-Mobil is considering cutting off funds to the denial groups … that’s huge … What we’re seeing (I think) is a tipping point in the industrial community — they’re finally recognizing that economic growth and environmental health aren’t conflicting goals, or even mutually exclusive. Archive for » 2006 » November : Sustainablog
What is needed is a floating balance between conflicting needs and conflicting demands. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
Over the years conflicting studies have suggested that high heels are both bad and good for health. Times, Sunday Times
The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal -- while not the slightest breeze was stirring -- presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described
Re: Armed Forces order of command in event of conflicting orders I thought we all got to vote on which orders* we wanted to carry out? Army Rumour Service
The studies that have been done either show opposite or conflicting results or don't achieve what we call statistical significance. CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2003
We needed to get all these individuals with different responsibilities and conflicting constituencies to support our still unformulated plan. Dealings
I'm unsure of the media blackout at the moment, I have seen both conflicting screens of the game, some look awesome - some look drab.
In the final analysis, the Supreme Court will be called upon to resolve these conflicting interpretations.
Discusses the conflicting arguments for and against sustainable development, with particular reference to architecture.
In the wake of the BP spill, the Obama administration overhauled the Minerals Management Service, renaming it the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and separating its conflicting responsibilities for both policing the oil and gas industry and collecting billions in royalties from it. AP: Big Oil Hasn't Learned Lessons Of BP Oil Spill
A diffused brightness, a kind of high crosslight of conflicting windows, rests for me at all events on the little realm of Mr. Pulling Jenks and bathes it as with positively sweet limitations. A Small Boy and Others
Similar conflicting policies prevail in the context of treaties and third parties.
Sources after this point are often conflicting. Times, Sunday Times
There are conflicting reports as to whether negative feedback inhibition exists in humans and whether it is mediated by cholecystokinin.
Attitudes expressed in the poll reflect a society with conflicting views of firearms.
Somewhere in the middle of the conflicting forces Bush must decide whether stem cell research should get federal funding.
This supports the administration's contention that the White House was receiving conflicting reports during the course of Aug. 29 about whether the levees had been breached or simply "overtopped" by hurricane-driven flood waters. Who Knew What?
Conflicting ambitions and personal bickering meanwhile kept princely and noble warlords divided, while their willingness to let the Spaniards ravage frontier provinces sapped any wider support they might have hoped for.
Burnside himself said that he did not cross because he had conflicting orders that told him to remain unengaged until specifically ordered otherwise.
But I suspect that those who "triangulate" believe that cramming conflicting views into the big tent is a moral objective.
The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye. David Copperfield
Were an organism an evolutionary chimera, then its various chronometers [phylogenetic markers] would yield different, conflicting phylogenies. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Boyhood's end is a short but dramatic work full of conflicting emotions and nostalgia for days of yore.
She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions.
Conflicting findings have been found concerning patient satisfaction and referral for radiography, and one study found that providing a patient with a diagnostic label increased patient satisfaction.
This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
There have been a variety of approaches to this dilemma, and to defeasibility among conflicting obligations. [ Deontic Logic
The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives.
Stalin had not selected his closest subordinates with a view to their forming a closely knit band of brothers, and this meant that the contest for power would not be purely a matter of conflicting policies.
What is needed is a floating balance between conflicting needs and conflicting demands. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
We have only insufficient and conflicting evidence about what ideologies the Khmer Rouge leaders found most compelling, and it is difficult to know to what extent these beliefs, such as Maoism, were actually pervasive and convincing beyond the core group. Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields
Each verse is written like a postcard message that has similar conflicting emotions. The Sun
She briefly indicates the conflicting written evidence that an historian investigating this incident must consider.
The debate is centred around two conflicting theories.
As a contrast, the next chapter is devoted to the conflicting and contrary views of the Jews during the same time period.
The troubled confusion of the first day of the uprising produced many conflicting accounts and several mistakes as newspapers scrambled to bring their readers reports on the uprising and pictures and eyewitness accounts of it. 13 A more accurate picture of who had done the shooting and who had been armed with stones for weapons and dustbin lids for protection would emerge only later, although the exact circumstances and chronology of events were almost immediately the subject of heated debates. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
In each instance, the executive order should by its terms rescind any conflicting previous order - none of which have been made public and remain secret to this day. Chicagotribune.com -
This dynamic in which every particularity is being eroded by globalism and the contrasting and conflicting calls and actions for integration of culture, technology, and economics, affects us all.
Conflicting evidence on the position of brachiopods in metazoan phylogeny exists.
I see myself in one sense as a zoo of conflicting desires each trying to clamour for my attention like a class of noisy children or a swarm of irritating pixies - you have to decide who to listen to and who to ignore.
Confusion reigned when the two managers gave conflicting instructions.
In balance, these conflicting emotions equal a readiness to change that which one can and to accept that which one cannot change.
The possibility of uncovering conflicting gene genealogies in taxa that were separated a long time in the past but whose speciation has occurred close in time has already been discussed.
Over the years conflicting studies have suggested that high heels are both bad and good for health. Times, Sunday Times
The classification exercise provides another arena for the conflicting points of view as to the relative importance of good people as opposed to good systems.
An animal may experience conflicting urges when encountering a threat.
The effect of alcohol on fertility is not clear as the results of studies are conflicting.
Everything was coming back, and already, Tanya felt a myriad of conflicting emotions overwhelming her.
He look at the conflicting imperatives of his working-class background and his middle-class present. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes there have been conflicting messages and signals. Times, Sunday Times
Growing up, I adopted for myself two identities, never conflicting - I loved them both.
Last week the FDA said antidepressant use by children actually rose this year, directly conflicting with Medco's data.
Amid the usual flurry of confusing, sometimes conflicting economic facts and figures what matters to most of us is the income and outgo and whether we have jobs to go to.
Programs designed to motivate patients into leaving voluntarily brought into sharp focus conflicting institutional dynamics inherent in the leprosarium setting.
There are conflicting claims about the cause of the fire.
Pressure for something effective to be done has led to a maelstrom of conflicting reports that has spooked the international markets.
Conflicting reports in the U.S. media while top-notch intelligence and on the spot sources tell the story otherwise, are important to keep an eye on.
National guidance derived from the records of multiple organisations was conflicting.
How do you make sense out of the many conflicting issues and statements about the political world that confront you each day?
Father and son are not simply embodiments of conflicting political stances, but well-developed characters who gain individuality as the film unfolds.
The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties.
Jealousy, rivalry and conflicting ideals help to tear the pair apart. Times, Sunday Times
Onions, garlic and leeks are found to have conflicting images throughout much of the world.
Since little is known about the weapon, there is panic in the Faerie lands and among various conflicting proposals - invade, appease, investigate, bribe - the rumored and specifically banned by the last treaty with the unseelie, super-secret Office of Shadow is reconstituted with the three above as first new "recruits". "The Office of Shadow" by Matthew Sturges (reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
Metaphor and irony juxtapose meanings: harmonious, contrasting, or conflicting.
He stood amidst the chaos of the control center, beings flurrying around him in a haste of information and conflicting orders.
Bitterly he reflected that at least John had no conscience to prey upon him; he did not fall asleep with his brain seething with conflicting arguments, and awake with the decision as far off as ever. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
They learn to read conflicting texts, interpret fragmentary evidence and guess at motives. Times, Sunday Times
On the basis of existing trials, such a trial would be ethical because present evidence is conflicting.
Schools have to attempt to satisfy the conflicting demands of a whole range of individuals and groups.
Conflicting results have been reported during the ripening of climacteric fruits after harvest.
The coronial inquest into fires at Ewingar in October 2002 heard conflicting evidence from forestry, rural fire brigade personnel and local residents as to the cause of the fire.
The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties.
A deeply divided political class nourished a range of conflicting and often utopian ideological goals.
There were also conflicting reports about the reasons for the suspect's arrest.
Even if of goodwill towards the others, they felt conflicting obligations, were bound by tradition to avenge insults and to assist others of their group.
Holding such conflicting feelings can lead to severe stress and burnout.
Choi said the more he investigated the subject of blood types, the more conflicting information he received.
The driver was bewildered by the conflicting road signs.
The debate brings together experts with conflicting views.
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Inconsistencies can be very confusing for young children and conflicting attitudes over toilet training and discipline can lead to frustration and unhappiness.
Somewhere in the middle of the conflicting forces Bush must decide whether stem cell research should get federal funding.
The conflicting interests of client, contractor and subcontractor have provided the basis for numerous court cases.
The administration walked a political and social tightrope as it tried to satisfy the conflicting demands of all these constituencies.
We are reaching the point where the process of rationalization is conflicting with the deepest human needs.
The authors also briefly review some of the earlier research and suggest that the conclusions appears to be conflicting.
I’ve read conflicting reports on its invention, some say it was the Spanish who invented it in the 1700s (basing it on a similar French tool called a moulinet) while others say the Mayans created it. Mexican hot chocolate and a molinillo | Homesick Texan
The replication control genes of bacterial plasmids face selection at two conflicting levels.
These authors identify two conflicting influences on total labor requirements that arise during this transition.
Evidence linking vitamin antioxidants and cancer obtained from epidemiological studies is conflicting.
Inconsistencies can be very confusing for young children and conflicting attitudes over toilet training and discipline can lead to frustration and unhappiness.
Your contribution may well resolve some of this difference or create more conflicting points for further argument.
The problem here is the same as it's always been: too many conflicting backstories for the character either muddles the plot along the way, or it mucks up the ending [guess which one we're at now].
But through the mists of all these conflicting theories and probabilities two facts of tremendous importance for our modern world emerge in clear relief, namely, that the grand law of the conservation of matter still holds true, and hence that _the matter of our world must have had an origin at some time in the past wholly different in degree and different in kind from any process going on around us that we call a natural process_. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
As director he is besieged by the conflicting demands of his tours, his home repertoire and his guests.
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills. Times, Sunday Times
Even then, the relative strengths and weaknesses of all of this (often conflicting) information has to be synthesised into a coherent whole.
Which of these conflicting sides of the country will prevail became a matter of intense conjecture after the Kursk disaster.
When conflicting political interests were involved, the supervisor would be forced, however reluctantly, to choose between them.
He stared up at the blanket of stars glittering in the inky sky, his conflicting emotions flickering on his face. ICE AGE
And it has certainly cost us credibility from the public because of conflicting recommendations. ProWomanProLife » Oh look! Something else they’re not sure about…
Programs designed to motivate patients into leaving voluntarily brought into sharp focus conflicting institutional dynamics inherent in the leprosarium setting.
As a result, shelter workers know all too well of the confusion and conflicting loyalties surrounding an individual battered wife.
There thus exists the possibility of conflicting judicial opinion at the highest level.
He gathered himself for a few moments; the conflicting emotions needed to be reined in before he went to speak to his mother. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Sometimes there have been conflicting messages and signals. Times, Sunday Times
The debate is centred around two conflicting theories.
The references to the unnamed conflicting governments for whom the characters work recall the convoluted alliances countries formed and broke with each other during the Great War, but the lingering sense of devastation and trauma that the war left across Europe floats through the movie as well. The House Next Door
There are at least 15 'inadequate, unsynchronized or conflicting' policies governing fitness, which 'increases the likelihood that soldiers who do not meet medical deployability requirements may be deployed in violation of one or more policies,' the report concludes. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Report targets Army policy on combat fitness
And his often-conflicting statements undermine the credibility of his public declarations.
But the most important facet of their disunion from this current perspective is that there are two radically conflicting power centers.
It is difficult not to believe that at times our judges, in trying to craft general principles from of a confusing congeries of conflicting case-law, have simply failed adequately to understand it or the principles behind it.
Cross-border tax disputes can arise when two states assert conflicting rights to tax an individual or company.

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