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  • The group was to remain there at the oasis until the conflict between the tribes was over.   (source)
    conflict = war
  • Mr. Griffen strongly urged that Canada follow the lead of Britain, France and the United States, and distance itself from this conflict.   (source)
  • He is conflicted.   (source)
    conflicted = with opposing feelings
  • While you were off having fun, I was doing the dirty work of defending your old faction, eliminating interfaction conflict ….   (source)
    conflict = struggle or disagreement
  • Those who deal with conflict and danger.   (source)
    conflict = challenging tasks
  • As a result, we get involved in the conflict as soldiers, carriers of loads, and in many other difficult tasks.   (source)
    conflict = struggle or disagreement
  • The real reason, of course, is he can no longer bear his conflicting feelings about Tashi, who is beginning, I think, to appreciate the magnitude of her mistake.   (source)
    conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)
  • All the mad conflicting emotions had gone and left me wearied and empty.   (source)
  • MR. DUVAL: Dr. Doane, I hope I can understand your conflict.†   (source)
    conflict = struggle or disagreement
  • Those two were the best of friends and Matthew thanked his stars many a time and oft that he had nothing to do with bringing her up. That was Marilla's exclusive duty; if it had been his he would have been worried over frequent conflicts between inclination and said duty.   (source)
    conflicts = struggles or disagreements
  • Also: The thrilling, masterly, and blood-curdling Broad-sword conflict In Richard III.   (source)
    conflict = battle (struggle)
  • Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease.   (source)
    conflict = war
  • They always seemed to follow one basic strategy only—gather the greatest number of ships at the key point of conflict.†   (source)
  • The impact of such contact on human society would be divisive rather than uniting, and would exacerbate rather than mitigate the conflicts between different cultures.†   (source)
  • At over seventy thousand and rising, it was a costlier conflict than the Vietnam War, if that classification made any sense.†   (source)
  • After all, in the midst of armed conflicts, facts are bound to be just as susceptible to injury as ships and men, if not more so.†   (source)
  • And it was the first indication that Dad understood the complex and conflicting feelings I'd developed.†   (source)
  • The specter of never-ending conflict with his Christian neighbors renewed Paul's feelings of despair.†   (source)
  • Crystal lost track of Cassie once the shooters entered the room, and there are conflicting versions of what she was doing.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he'd ask Woody to hang out, and Woody would reply, "Can't, I'm with Pops today," and Wes would feel a surge of conflicting feelings.†   (source)
  • In an attempt to free its painfully twisted flippers, it would pull on them; if I pulled at the same moment, our conflicting efforts sometimes came together and suddenly it would happen, easily: in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, a turtle would surge over the gunnel and slide onto the tarpaulin.†   (source)
  • He had become friends with several men on the row and was surprised by how conflicted he felt about leaving them, knowing what they would soon face.†   (source)
  • He was an exceptionally spiritual man, albeit one in constant conflict with the Church.†   (source)
  • He felt such a raging storm of conflicting emotions, he couldn't identify any of them.†   (source)
  • Harry thought he knew what was going on behind the mustache: a furious battle as two of Uncle Vernon's most fundamental instincts came into conflict.†   (source)
  • [19:251 ]OHANSSEN: The psych team was worried about personality conflicts†   (source)
  • Bobby Lee Cook, for all his guile and resourcefulness, had not been able to free himself from a conflict in court dates.†   (source)
  • If there is conflict in the group, the female lemurs are the ones who fight it out.†   (source)
  • He was the anachronism at the Circle, the flashy CEO, and created conflicted feelings among many of the utopian young Circlers.†   (source)
  • My thoughts and feelings were a wild, conflicting jumble.†   (source)
  • It was clear to me that there was a deeper level for us to fight on, a level where nothing could be held back, and the true import of our conflicting loyalties would express itself.†   (source)
  • She rescheduled, but realized too late that her appointment conflicted with a final exam.†   (source)
  • Their brutality seemed plain and safe alongside my conflicted feelings for Hester, my crushing envy of Owen.†   (source)
  • Bud thinks it's a conflict between farming and golfing, but he's missing the point.†   (source)
  • Everything about my surroundings is filling me with conflicting memories, and I don't like loving him just as much as I hate him.†   (source)
  • He gave me that half-smile of his, which had won him a thousand conflicts.†   (source)
  • My conflicting emotions keep me silent for many hours.†   (source)
  • Even the Silvers felt the strain, so the king declared war, plunging us into a conflict neither side could really win.†   (source)
  • He saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal conflict with the sons of darkness.†   (source)
  • But those myths are really garbled and conflicted.†   (source)
  • They resembled each other in their dread of conflict, and the regularity of his evening calls, however much she disbelieved them, was a comfort to them both.†   (source)
  • I was beginning to have conflicts about eating animals.†   (source)
  • As he did, a succession of conflicting emotions took hold of them: love, desire, tenderness, lust, shame ....fear of discovery.†   (source)
  • "It would be naive of me," he said when the audience had quieted, "not to mention a second kind of conflict.†   (source)
  • We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.†   (source)
  • In conflict, Proctor glances at Francis and Giles.†   (source)
  • She'd heard conflicting definitions for the bases.†   (source)
  • No one before 1939 thought of it as World War I, since we had no idea that only twenty years later the world would again erupt in conflict.†   (source)
  • It's twenty-two years since we defeated Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts, and I'm delighted to say there is a new generation being brought up having known only the slightest conflict.†   (source)
  • Apparently there was an incident on the subway ...conflicting stories there, Daddy said one thing and the cops said another but —" he lifted his eyebrows, with a sort of mannered, black-humored whimsy—"off went Daddy to the ding farm!†   (source)
  • No one can keep out of the conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the Allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.†   (source)
  • Reunited, they end up in conflicted homes.†   (source)
  • Maybe at camp she could've gotten into a scuffle, but the consequences would've been dire: hours-long conflict-resolution seminars with the counselors and the rabbi.†   (source)
  • They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish—expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.†   (source)
  • There will inevitably be arguments and conflicts.†   (source)
  • This dichotomous couple, this sun and moon, this curandera and biologist, dreamer and realist, fire woman and water man, molded me; these two sides created a life-long conflict in my breast.†   (source)
  • In one of those distant countries I think he even picked up a gun in some kind of terrible conflict; he's hated war with a dark passion ever since I've known him.†   (source)
  • The display she witnessed at the Clearing shamed her because the choice between Sethe and Beloved was without conflict.†   (source)
  • Most stories say seven, but even that's conflicted.†   (source)
  • I have a medical appointment that conflicts with the party.†   (source)
  • Now that the Germans had won the armed conflict against us, however, they set about losing the political war.†   (source)
  • He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips.†   (source)
  • He learns that the C could also stand for "conflicted."†   (source)
  • And of the wildly conflicting truths that resided within a person.†   (source)
  • Yet conflict was a part of our lives, written into our very faces, hands, and arms, and to see how contradiction lived and survived in its essence, we had to look no farther than our own mother.†   (source)
  • In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) he has Dr. J. drink a potion and become his evil half, while in his now largely ignored short novel The Master of Ballantrae (1889), he uses twins locked in fatal conflict to convey the same sense.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel has become part of a community, but it puts him into daily conflict with others.†   (source)
  • Had not seen it, perhaps, as she had not seen my profound disturbance at realizing she was no longer one person but two, in conflict with each other.†   (source)
  • Let's take a minute to discuss social conflict in a small-town setting.†   (source)
  • There was conflict, too, among the fair's overseers.†   (source)
  • I'm inclined to believe him, due to conflicting stories I got from my mother and sisters.†   (source)
  • The trouble with my family is that since we hardly ever see each other, we have plenty of time to forget how much personality conflict we all have when it comes right down to it.†   (source)
  • He had written her about the play, which was called The Little School, describing the basic conflict between Denker, a gifted student who had failed into becoming the brutal and brutalizing headmaster of a turn-of-the-century New England prep school, and Gary Benson, the student he sees as a younger version of himself.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of view that might command a slight premium during gentler, more prosperous times, but would be most undesirable in times of conflict, when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle.†   (source)
  • Raised as a Christian, obviously I knew there had been religious conflicts for centuries.†   (source)
  • To Plato, the death of Socrates was a striking example of the conflict that can exist between society as it really is and the true or ideal society.†   (source)
  • The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality: But often this isn't understood; and here comes the waste, the tragedy.†   (source)
  • I learned that he is a Muslim, a Bosnian, a survivor of the Balkans conflict, who came to Britain as a fifteen-year-old refugee.†   (source)
  • Like all schools, it was hard-wired to call, at the first sign of conflict, a grown-up.†   (source)
  • Although outwardly he was the model Soviet child, inwardly he wondered why what he learned from his father and in school conflicted with the other lessons of his youth.†   (source)
  • My conflict between attending meetings and practicing ballet was resolved.†   (source)
  • Kendo is to real samurai sword fighting what fencing is to real swashbuckling: an attempt to take a highly disorganized, chaotic, violent, and brutal conflict and turn it into a cute game.†   (source)
  • He had seen this drama close up, but until this moment he had never had to face the moral conflict of helping a desperate woman.†   (source)
  • These were dangerous days at the conclusion of the formal conflict.†   (source)
  • So the agencies, encouraged by the success of that early round of resettlement, brought in other refugees—survivors of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, and oppressed minorities from the former Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • On one occasion the underlying conflict came into the open when I asked, "Why do we have to draw blood from this patient?†   (source)
  • A lot of them show how much I wanted my freedom, how much I wanted to see my mom, and bring to light my conflicted feelings for Phillip and Nancy Garrido.†   (source)
  • The conflict had begun long before over the right to own slaves and states' right to secede, that is, to leave the Union if they disagreed with the government.†   (source)
  • For the next three months, each time they tried to resolve the conflict they only inflamed their feelings even more.†   (source)
  • These recalcitrant views had time after time brought him into conflict with his peers.†   (source)
  • No, because a medical consultation is a lot like one of Gottman's conflict discussions or a student's dorm room.†   (source)
  • During the sports seasons, they could shift the bulk of the workload to earlier parts of the day so that we didn't have a conflict with any afternoon or evening practices, games, or other activities.†   (source)
  • They submitted conflicting reports.†   (source)
  • It would be one way to end conflict over tribal leadership—female properly aligned with male.†   (source)
  • Any conflict will keep us going.†   (source)
  • She knew her limits, but she wasn't the type to get into a conflict over things that were ultimately not that important.†   (source)
  • Conflicting schedules.†   (source)
  • Trying to balance the conflicting feelings around those two moments was dizzying without adding anything else.†   (source)
  • And he felt like he was being pulled in a million conflicting directions.†   (source)
  • Although nobody noticed it until it was too late, having Mr. Dubonnet and my dad on opposite sides was a prescription for conflict.†   (source)
  • She turned away, feeling their heat, as David began to talk: waves and dunes, sand and flesh, two conflicting images at once.†   (source)
  • What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict, this same general had been discreetly retired, and he had then entered business, dealing in shipments from Southern Africa.†   (source)
  • He had a manner that enabled him to absorb and destroy all opinions in conflict with his.†   (source)
  • Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time, each as sharp as a razorblade: I want to see you grow up and Don't ever change.†   (source)
  • In recent years conflicts between franchisees and franchisors have become much more common.†   (source)
  • Larry felt the same conflicting emotions, but trusted that God had a plan and that Adam's part in it would be revealed.†   (source)
  • And then Bronson called me, too, because, you see, there's going to be a kind of conflict with Happy Hunting Ground.†   (source)
  • But McCormick and the Army had not been getting along well, and there was a history of conflict.†   (source)
  • Mass rapes have been reported at stunning levels in recent conflicts.†   (source)
  • I'm conflicted about his plans.†   (source)
  • The conflict between his duty and his compassion was revealed by that gesture.†   (source)
  • All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.†   (source)
  • The 'old' conflict was reactivated and aggression swiftly mounted to murderous proportions...When such senseless murders occur, they are seen to be an end result of a period of increasing tension and disorganization in the murderer starting before the contact with the victim who, by fitting into the unconscious conflicts of the murderer, unwittingly serves to set into motion his homicidal potential.†   (source)
  • The potential for conflict is always there.†   (source)
  • If people are reasonable and open-minded, conflict always dissolves.†   (source)
  • Mingled in his expression were two conflicting emotions: a faint amazement and what looked to Simon like disappointment.†   (source)
  • We sense a genuine emotional conflict.†   (source)
  • IT WAS IN THE COMMONS that the longer, more turbulent conflict ensued.†   (source)
  • My emotions are conflicted.†   (source)
  • And just think, that laughable episode was the greatest conflict I've ever experienced!†   (source)
  • It becomes easier to die and avoid conflicts than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.†   (source)
  • An unsolvable conflict.†   (source)
  • "Patients in traditional forms of psychotherapy while away their fifty minutes reliving childhood conflicts and learning to blame their unhappiness on how their parents treated them," Pinker wrote.†   (source)
  • Like most other Southern boys who grew up far from the Big House, the ones who fought and died and fought and lived in every armed conflict since Cemetery Ridge, his world had been narrow, and the only way to see the rest of it was to enlist.†   (source)
  • "There are a lot of conflicting stories," Quinn began.†   (source)
  • It was a point of conflict between him and Moody.†   (source)
  • As Max watched Ronin hobble down the corridor, he stifled a surge of conflicting emotions.†   (source)
  • Tell her that you frightened me, that I want no conflict between us, that henceforth I shall do nothing without her consent.†   (source)
  • By now conflicting things were churning around in my brain and my guts.†   (source)
  • No conflicting obligations.†   (source)
  • When he asked about conflicts with work, a gentleman wearing a coat and a tie stood and said he simply could not be away from the office.†   (source)
  • Alone in the dark, his body now cold and his mind a jumble of conflicting thoughts, Kennedy bobs lifelessly.†   (source)
  • My mind swirls with conflicting emotions.†   (source)
  • Mr. Butterbur had come trotting in, and he was now trying to listen to several conflicting accounts of the event at the same time.†   (source)
  • As luck would have it, all of the guards and sentries that might have held them in their flight had gone toward the heart of the conflict at the Great Hall.†   (source)
  • Sounds exploded in her ears: the scream of sirens, the shouts of conflicting orders from the communicator on the dash.†   (source)
  • Privately, he continued to wrestle with his Adventist beliefs and their conflict with his military obligations.†   (source)
  • He looked conflicted.†   (source)
  • No offense, brother, but you sound a bit conflicted.†   (source)
  • Between Mortenson's spotty Urdu and a number of conflicting accounts, he wasn't able to be sure he had the details properly sorted.†   (source)
  • The Augur senses my conflict and presses.†   (source)
  • The idea of what is correct or incorrect is fascinating because Americans seem to hold conflicting views.†   (source)
  • No big huge conflicts at school.†   (source)
  • Colin Singleton, noted child prodigy, noted veteran of Katherine Conflicts, noted nerd and sitzpinkler, didn't matter to Katherine XIX, and he didn't matter to the world.†   (source)
  • I felt a hundred conflicting things, the great bulk of which canceled out to equal cold and tired and not particularly interested in talking.†   (source)
  • What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality.†   (source)
  • He'll experience no major conflict of motives, and what is even better, society will suffer no traumata on his account.†   (source)
  • There was no essential drama, no conflicts to overcome or barriers to surmount.†   (source)
  • He claimed the limp was the result of a battle wound from the war of 1812; in reality, he received it several years after that conflict when he took an ill-advised step on a rickety ladder after one too many pints.†   (source)
  • Evaluation SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ONCE SAID THAT "true genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."†   (source)
  • As my time at Healdtown was coming to an end, I had many new and sometimes conflicting ideas floating in my head.†   (source)
  • To say that my mind was a jumble of conflicting thoughts was an understatement.†   (source)
  • It makes it possible for us to imagine the faces of real children caught and trampled by the scourge of war in so many recent and ongoing conflicts in Africa.†   (source)
  • "I must confess," said Prof, "that I find these conflicting reports very conflicting."†   (source)
  • The waiter was rent by conflicting defiance, disgust, shame, and pride.†   (source)
  • He was not a person prone to inner conflicts, he had always been sure of his actions and at peace with himself.†   (source)
  • We find ourselves in conflict over moral standards, patriotism, family, and issues of race and faith.†   (source)
  • And even if it had, I wouldn't have known the conflicts that could arise.†   (source)
  • Or is it that she's conflicted?†   (source)
  • He must return at last to a world as it is, however much in conflict with his hopes, and he must then do what he can to edge reality toward what he has dreamed, to change what he can change, to go beyond the wish or the fantasy.†   (source)
  • It was odd, I felt, how many people seemed to have positive, if conflicting, information upon God's views.†   (source)
  • Beorg took comfort in the fact that no major conflicts had broken out among the assembled tribes, and this night, when they all met in the common hall, the atmosphere was brotherly and jovial, with every beard in Hengorot lathered in foam.†   (source)
  • As he approached the revelation that had lifted Georgine and Charlie Delmann from despair to euphoria, as he drew nearer the truth about Nina, his mind churned with conflicting currents, and hope like schools of bright koi darted through his internal darkness.†   (source)
  • He had never felt so conflicted in his life.†   (source)
  • Somehow the yeshiva team had translated this afternoon's baseball game into a conflict between what they regarded as their righteousness and our sinfulness.†   (source)
  • They focused the anger on the girl and her family, knowing from many years of this conflict that the anger could not be contained by a single person or family, but that it must leak out and soak into the ground under the entire village.†   (source)
  • She thinks my work keeps me at war with myself—she's told me more than once that she's never seen anybody so conflicted.†   (source)
  • I have condensed some of the action, for the sake of clarity, and eliminated some minor characters, for brevity; but though I have often had to choose between conflicting viewpoints, I have not knowingly violated the action.†   (source)
  • Jimmy Frank played center his freshman year, making first string when a player ahead of him quit school to join the navy during the Korean conflict.†   (source)
  • Regulating these Dangers Facing the United States: Domestic: Number 10 conflicting interests is the principal task of modern legislation.†   (source)
  • If I 'conflict' a bird it's going to do a crunchy on the Paw, which might not even notice.†   (source)
  • Everyone preferred real cigarettes, of course, but there was never enough of them (and toward the end of the conflict, none at all), and the leaves provided a bit of mirth and laxity to our spirits, if also a seizing headache at evening's end.†   (source)
  • Why did they persist through four years of the bloodiest conflict in American history, costing 360,000 northern lives—not to mention 260,000 southern lives and untold destruction of resources?†   (source)
  • I could almost see the wheels in his head turning, and every bit of his demeanor showed how conflicted he was about what he wanted to do.†   (source)
  • And he has no interest in throwing another one in Syria, especially when it conflicts with the narrative.†   (source)
  • It was experience, not clairvoyance, which brought Abigail instant recognition of the nature of the conflict.†   (source)
  • Thus it remains that I am basically unfitted to take sides in the racial conflict.†   (source)
  • Rack in the hotel she found the lobby full of deaf-mute delegates in party hats, copied in crepe paper after the fur Chinese communist jobs made popular during the Korean conflict.†   (source)
  • No one in the tribe remembered now that in the days of the great tribal conflicts, before taking his place in the war canoe each man had blown his breath into a strip of dried kelp, tied the strip into a ring, and placed the ring around the neck of his wife saying, "Guard well my breath."†   (source)
  • In those terrible days of open conflict, I was being taken into the inner cities, usually by black militants, as an observer.†   (source)
  • Each fought his own battles in the general conflict with mankind.†   (source)
  • I will strive for new cooperation rather than conflict in the peaceful exploration of our oceans and our space.†   (source)
  • There was a conflict between the lust for murder and the need for work.†   (source)
  • "In the ancient conflict of the Jews and the Babylonians," he said—but there he was cut off.†   (source)
  • That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility.†   (source)
  • The end of strife and conflicts of all kinds had also meant the virtual end of creative art.†   (source)
  • The radio screeched with power, static, interference, and occasional words in the almost unintelligible language of conflict.†   (source)
  • She was torn by conflicting emotions.†   (source)
  • As Govinda thought like this, and there was a conflict in his heart, he once again bowed to Siddhartha, drawn by love.†   (source)
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