Both Uses
conflict
in
Military-Industrial Complex Speech
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- Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world.†
*conflict = struggle or disagreement
- Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry.†
conflicts = struggles or disagreements
Definitions:
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(1)
(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)