All 8 Uses
conflict
in
I Am Malala
(Edited)
- I have traveled to the conflict-hit areas to raise awareness about the plight of children who are deprived of an education.
p. xix.2conflict = battle
- If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth.
p. 139.5conflict = disagreement
- Her family had moved to Karachi to get away from the conflict and, as a woman, she could not live alone.
p. 158.9conflict = battle
- Our people traditionally fire rifles in celebration of births and weddings, but even that had stopped during the conflict.
p. 167.1conflict = war
- While we were there we heard that Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the American envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, was holding a meeting in the Serena Hotel about the conflict, and my father and I managed to get inside.
p. 184.1conflict = battle (struggle)
- He wrote opinion pieces in newspapers saying that the conflict in Swat had been manufactured.
p. 234.7conflict = battle
- The army chief and the doctor were not related despite sharing a surname but knew each other well, so the general told Dr. Javid he was worried about the conflicting reports he was receiving and asked him to assess me before flying back to the UK.
p. 258.6conflicting = opposing (saying different things)
- People who visited them were bringing conflicting reports.
p. 279.7 *
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)