perpetual conflict

collocation in English

meaningsofperpetualandconflict

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perpetual
adjective
uk
/pəˈpetʃ.u.əl/us
/pɚˈpetʃ.u.əl/
continuing for ever in the ...
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conflict
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.flɪkt/us
/ˈkɑːn.flɪkt/
an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions ...
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(Definition ofperpetualandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Both efforts were internally contradictory and externally became the basis ofperpetualconflict.
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In thisperpetualconflictbetween espionage and counter-espionage it is, of course, never possible to present a complete account to the public.
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They can only think upon this question as they think of the relations of trade and industry as oneperpetualconflict.
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If that is not done, we shall have a recipe forperpetualconflict.
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How else can one explain theperpetualconflictbetween the editorial and advertising pages of so many consumer magazines?
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It would merely compromise their power as a customer, and would introduce aperpetualconflictof interests when making decisions.
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There has been aperpetualconflictbetween private profit and the public good.
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Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order, whileperpetualconflictnecessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity.
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They reject chauvinism, jingoism and militarism, and want humans to live in peace rather thanperpetualconflict.
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The location of the ballcourt is intermediary, illustrating the position of this activity to representperpetualconflictbetween the forces of life and death.
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By this understanding, the biological self that understands only the moment is inperpetualconflict with the intellectual self that conceives of past, present, future, and the possibility of eternity.
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It's inperpetualconflictwith itself.
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By eliminating the older males, there was less chance of a counterattack from tribes that were inperpetualconflictdue to centuries of distrust and robbery.
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At the present time we have perpetual conflicts between the local education authority and managers with respect to improvements.
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