Word Finder - conflicts

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A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.

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The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.

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An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

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I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.

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To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

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It appears that our schedules conflict.

They discussed the internal conflictsin the communist party of the Soviet Union, between Stalin and Trotsky.

The early history consists largely of conflicts between the Burmese and Talaings.

The details of these conflicts belong to the general history of Spain.

The existence of such mixed matters gives rise to inevitable conflicts of jurisdiction, which may lead, and sometimes have led, to civil war.

The relations between them are obscure; conflicts are referred to in Is.

In 1695 the theological faculty of Wittenberg formally laid to his charge 264 errors, and only his death on the 5th of February, 1705, released him from these fierce conflicts.

We must work at resolving these conflicts or finding a way through.

His tenure of the bishopric was troubled not only by domestic bereavements but also by barbaric invasions of the country (in repelling which he proved himself a capable military organizer) and by conflicts with the prefect Andronicus, whom he excommunicated for interfering with the Church's right of asylum.

With the extension of the suffrage and the growth of nationalist conflicts, the powers of the president were no longer sufficient, and he was unable to deal with the obstruction of even a small group. At.

On land the presence of a few educated Phanariots, such as Demetrios Ypsilanti or Alexander Mavrocordato, was powerless to inspire the rude hordes with any sense of order or of humanity in warfare; while every lull in the fighting, due to a temporary check to the Turks, was the signal for internecine conflicts due to the rivalry of leaders who, with rare exceptions, thought more of their personal power and profit than of the cause of Greece.

As he grew older his mental conflicts became still more violent.

While on his guard against his northern foes, Gedymin from 1316 to 1340 was aggrandizing himself at the expense of the numerous Russian principalities in the south and east, whose incessant conflicts with each other wrought the ruin of them all.

It aims to resolve conflicts by peaceful means and to pursue preventative diplomacy.

In the USA, widely disparate state laws have created conflicts around the sale of alcohol over the internet.

The next few chapters are all about how to solve the conflicts mentioned in the first one.

He's ready to claim some territory for his own, hence the small conflicts you're witnessing.

Physical conflicts put cats at risk for injury.

He supported the church in its conflicts with the civil powers in Venice, France and England, and sharply criticized James I.

In the resulting conflicts, in which his personal interest was in question, he displayed great activity and a wide knowledge of canon law, but did not scruple to resort to disingenuous interpretation of texts.

Here in his account of the rise and progress of the Neapolitan laws and government, he warmly espoused the side of the civil power in its conflicts with the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

The rulers of the Church have learned by experience, however, that they can succeed best by avoiding partisan conflicts, and the archbishop of Bogota gave effect to this in 1874 by issuing an edict instructing priests not to interfere in politics.

They certainly neither require, nor are palliated by, theories of his "megalomania," of his excessive attention to conflicts of will and the like.

In 1791 conflicts between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans led to much bloodshed.

The most noted Indian conflicts within the state have been the Modoc War (1864-73) and the Shoshone War (1866-68).

To understand this, it is necessary to remember the conflicts that existed between the classic and romantic schools in the first half of the 19th century, when the classicists, followers of the tradition of s Historia Utriusque Cosmi (Oppenheim, 1617), tom.

The long and dubious conflicts of opinion concern Church history but left few traces on doctrine; Athanasius never flinched through all the reaction against Nicaea, and his faith ultimately conquered the Catholic Church.

The so-called Independents, such as Barras and Merlin of Douai, who were all Jacobins, but had stood aloof from the internal conflicts of the party, hated Royalism as much as ever and desired the continuance of the war which was essential to their power.

The Lapps have a dim tradition that their ancestors lived in a far eastern land, and they tell rude stories of conflicts with Norsemen and Karelians.

Though Portugal was at the time neutral several conflicts occurred between the Portuguese and Germans in the frontier district.

Springfield was somewhat out of the track of operations of the warfare between the French and English in America, as it was later in the War of Independence; but men from Springfield served in all these conflicts.

The elections of 1842 were marked by a series of sanguinary conflicts between Illyrists and Magyarists, but not until 1848 were the Illyrists returned to office.

France had not escaped any of these conflicts; but Philip the Fair was the initiator or the instrument (it is difficult to say which) who was to put an end to both imperial and theocratic dreams, and to the international crusades; who was to remove the political axis from the centre of Europe, mueh to the benefit of the western monarchies, now definitely emancipated from the feudal yoke and firmly organized against both the Church and the barons.

Of his long reign, during which he was a contemporary of Baasha, Zimri and Omri of Israel, little is recorded with the exception of some religious reforms and conflicts with the first-named.

There is in Madrid a Supreme Court, which is modelled upon the French Cour de Cassation, to rule on points of law when appeals are made from the decisions of inferior courts, or when conflicts arise between civil and military jurisdiction.

Parties and Conflicts, rgoo191o.--The loss of nearly all that remained of her colonial empire, though in appearance a crowning disaster, in fact relieved Spain of a perennial source Conflicting Tendencles.0f weakness and trouble, and left her free to set her own house in order.

After Luther's death, Alberus was for a time Diakonus in Wittenberg; he became involved, however, in the political conflicts of the time, and was in Magdeburg in 1550-1551, while that town was besieged by Maurice of Saxony.

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A company may act beneficially so long as a country is undeveloped, but as soon as it becomes even semi-civilized its conflicts with private interests become so frequent and serious that its authority has to make way for that of the central government.

The chronology of these conflicts seems to be a chronology of these conflicts seems to be a chronology of the main works of Marx and Engels.

These positions, established in order to promote comparative constitutionalism, involved advice on conflicts of laws, and external relations of State bodies.

In western civilization there are still innumerable conflicts & new possibilities.

Further conflicts emerged over US military plans for a cross-Channel invasion.

Some very worrying conflicts could arise for perfectly law-abiding, fair-minded employers.

The threats are more to do with conflicts of secession or competing nationalisms.

A prima facie obligation is one ' that must be fulfilled unless it conflicts on a particular occasion with an equal or stronger obligation.

But poetry has been so defined in the public mind as usually to exclude the possibility of social conflicts appearing.

Hence, the response of the international community to conflicts has largely remained reactive, rather than proactive.

The conflicts of Northern Ireland have more to do with power and economic relations than faith schooling.

Even more importantly, deep conflicts of value and perceived self-interest are at stake.

Conflicts leave behind debris which can include unexploded artillery shells, anti-vehicle mines, grenades, mortars, rockets and air-delivered bombs.