conflict of interestin a sentence
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She will not vote or participate in discussion on the subject due to a conflict of interest.
conflict of interest = a conflict between one's duty and one's personal interests
- I couldn't tell you about Crow's relationship to Sam Westing—conflict of interest, you understand.† (source)
- Sounds to me like a conflict of interest.† (source)
- The silver lining is that now you don't have to worry about a conflict of interest.† (source)
- He was charged with violating a federal conflict of interest law, not because he failed to disclose his financial interest or the value of those tissues to the donors, but because federal researchers aren't allowed to take money from pharmaceutical companies.† (source)
- Don't you think that's a little conflict of interest right there?† (source)
- It's called conflict of interest.† (source)
- No conflicts of interest?† (source)
- As expected, questions about her friendship with Mavis had been brought up, conflict of interest hinted at.† (source)
- It's a fundamental conflict of interest.† (source)
- Fitzsimmons would certainly have avoided this conflict of interest.† (source)
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- Either way she would have a terrible conflict of interest.† (source)
- Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust, men who neither make sacrifices nor accept them.† (source)
- I don't want to put you in an untenable conflict of interest or of the soul.† (source)
- It's a conflict of interest?'† (source)
- A spokesman close to the Director General has pointed out that, in view of the impossibility of conflict of interest between oxygen types such as ourselves and the Ratoonians, any outcome of the conference must be to our advantage, the question being to what extent.† (source)
- We're looking at a conflict of interest.† (source)
- Del Mar, conscious of the potential conflict of interest for the Howards and Smiths, barred public wagering on the race.† (source)
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