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conflicting

If something or someone is conflicting, they are in contention; they are striking together; two things that happen at the same time. Witnesses gave conflicting stories of what they remembered, so police were not sure what happened. France apologises to Bolivia for refusing to allow President Evo Morales' jet into its airspace, blaming the incident on "conflicting information."

conflicting

(= at odds, contradictory) in disagreement the figures are at odds with our findings contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness — John Morley on bad terms they were usually at odds over politics conflicting opinions

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Conflicting reports prompted the director to reconsider her position.
The eyewitnesses gave conflicting accounts of what they had seen.

Movie subtitles

There is conflicting testimony from various parties at the Garden that night.
You know, Larry, belief in the hereafter is a very healthy counterbalance to all the conflicting doubts man is plagued with these days.
These conflicting orders confuse and demoralise our troops.
Isn't there a possibility of confusion and conflicting statements?
Man has always known that his personality is an uneasy and unsatisfactory combination of conflicting elements.
In these matters there are so many. conflicting opinions that the confusion is impenetrable.
Conflicting data, captain.
A mass of conflicting impulses.
Now.. Iknowtherehavebeen some conflicting views.. regardingtheneedfor complete security in this matter.
My Christianity and my love affairs are different, even conflicting matters.
There are so many conflicting considerations.
He was given conflicting orders and he did his best to interpret them.
We found a place in ourselves for compassion, even though it was conflicting with the law of survival.
Conflicting reports.
And further. yet I don't know if a woman's conflicting feelings are of interest to you or whether they provoke your scorn, Duke?
These conflicting orders confuse and demoralize our troops.
Each of these people, highly individual, each with conflicting ideals.
I've heard conflicting stories.
And this may be where the conflicting elements come together.
Conflicting data, Captain.
Now I know there have been some conflicting views regarding the need for complete security in this matter.
But the evidence was so conflicting the coroner passed a verdict of misadventure abetted by delayed effects of the VUE.
That didn't happen last time. He was given conflicting orders.
So you didn't get the conflicting disharmony between man and nature?
But then you do not understand the conflicting powers within our solar system.
Lord Marchmain's mistress, therefore, found me with a multitude of conflicting expectations about her all of which were, for the moment, disappointed by her appearance.
Oppressed, upon this coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid exciting the sensitive nervousness of my companion.
I understand you now! conflicting emotions.
So many conflicting emotions.
Luc Allamand goes down to the river Seine haunted by conflicting feelings.
Anything that contains these two conflicting forces is alive.

News and current affairs

Any resolution - any suggestion of change - will engender new conflicts because of conflicting claims of sovereignty.
The six year period since Vladimir Putin arrived in the Kremlin has been a time of deeply conflicting signals.
When we are faced with conflicting choices - burden-sharing through taxation, the organization of the public sector, the status of public employees, etc. - the member states are considered to be the only bodies entitled to decide.
How will the new China balance these two conflicting needs?
So the death penalty debate boils down to an exchange of conflicting ethical and utilitarian views.
In short, there is no regulatory system that I trust more than the current messy world of conflicting interests.
MANILA - One of the main sources of tension in Asia nowadays are the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and others have conflicting claims.
Ignore all the lame excuses about the difficulties of assessing conflicting intelligence.
We need our central bankers to make complex decisions and to be able to balance potentially conflicting objectives.
A stable Euro makes stronger cooperation possible and desirable: not only to prevent global financial instability but to avoid the risk of conflicting currency blocs arising.
Moreover, it is likely that, within a few months, UN soldiers would once again find themselves between the firing lines of the conflicting parties.
With the Germans helping to reconcile conflicting national interests by putting a little extra on the table, the process of European integration reached its apogee with the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro.
This highlights a larger problem: the European Union lacks a unifying narrative strong enough to prevent the emergence of conflicting - and highly destructive - narratives within its borders.
As a result, the status quo is likely to persist, which means that nationalist grandstanding over conflicting territorial claims is far from over.
First, nations faced with conflicting claims to water have historically found ways to collaborate rather than to fight.
Such a framework embraces realism about areas of contention defined by significant conflicting national interests and values.
The GCC should be accustomed to conflicting perspectives on regional design and differing degrees of cooperation across regional actors, and it should draw on these differences as a source of strength.
As Greece and its creditors court catastrophe, we are getting a clear picture of how conflicting narratives can lead to a lose-lose result.
The consequences of Germany's renunciation of that role are predictable: the EU will regress from a union of states moving towards ever closer integration to a weak confederation dominated by conflicting national interests.

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