potential conflict
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandconflict
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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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 ofpotentialandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, the existence of a stress pattern to be retained during reading creates apotentialconflict between the reading (primary) and memory (secondary) tasks.
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Planters displayed a paternalistic concern for their neighbours in the processing, transportation, and sale of their crops, which stifledpotentialconflict.
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This narrowed the spheres ofpotentialconflictwithin the community.
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This places the physician in apotentialconflict-of-interest position (1).
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According to this analysis, transplantation becomes problematic because the practice is inpotentialconflictwith one of the archi-prohibitions.
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This situation created apotentialconflictof interest to the detriment of the public service.
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Note that the idea here is not to construct rights-principles one by one, adding conditions to each aspotentialconflictsituations are encountered or envisioned.
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It assumes that governments try to avoidpotentialconflictby granting concessions to groups that demand special or equal treatment.
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Although there is still no direct meeting between the stakeholders, thispotentialconflicton building location selection is identified much earlier.
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Does the article indicate that there is nopotentialconflictof interest of study researcher(s) and funder(s)?
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Both of these episodes illustrate thepotentialconflictbetween temporal and goal-oriented definitions of episodes.
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Additionally, such information may be useful in identifyingpotentialconflictareas; that is, areas that receive both low and spatially homogeneous rainfall.
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This emphasis on the formation of expectations based upon past experiences presents apotentialconflictfor the development of emotions.
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Extra activities created apotentialconflictbetween befriending and friendship.
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In sum, thepotentialconflictbetween structure sharing and resource sensitivity is a genuine problem.
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Thepotentialconflictbetween control and autonomy is the tension inherent in the parastatal design.
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To avoidpotentialconflictbetween the two, tone languages resort to strategies that are not commonly used in non-tonal languages.
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Even though employees can be trained to recognize signs ofpotentialconflict, conflicts are expected.
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