conflicting pressures
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconflictingandpressure
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conflicting
adjective
uk/kənˈflɪk.tɪŋ/us/kənˈflɪk.tɪŋ/
Conflicting beliefs, needs, facts, etc. are different ...
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pressure
noun
uk/ˈpreʃ.ər/us/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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Policing that is targeted at reducing numbers can sometimes be subject toconflictingpressurebecause initial work may increase crime figures.
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The conflicting pressures and priorities emanating from the global and regional levels have, not unsurprisingly, promoted a division in the academic literature on regional integration.
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This was very important for a group of professionals who experience many conflicting pressures and it was anticipated that a more time-consuming mail-administered survey would lead to non-response.
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Given diverse and often conflicting pressures, a prime minister must set priorities between competing goods and reconcile conflicting demands in ways that avoid the loss of political support.
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The underlying dilemma of how to juggle conflicting pressures and demands is perpetual.
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To pretend that there is an easy way of reconciling the potentially conflicting pressures is facile.
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The health service has always shown itself capable of adapting its practices and programmes to meet conflicting pressures.
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I do not underestimate the conflicting pressures to which he must have been subjected in trying to arrive at a conclusion in presenting the document.
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It has proved difficult—virtually impossible—for the regional health authorities to resolve this very difficult problem of resource allocation, given the conflicting pressures.
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This is an area where there are competing and often conflicting pressures.
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My proposals seek to achieve a fair balance between conflicting pressures.
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They are a compromise because there are two conflicting pressures.
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However, the authority will find that difficult, because it will experience conflicting pressures.
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American policies, like those of ours and other free societies, are the result of many conflicting pressures.
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There are different and conflicting pressures from, for example, the royal colleges on training accreditation and from local people.
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Many conflicting pressures have created the existing situation.
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Loans allow us to reconcile conflicting pressures.
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We had to balance conflicting pressures.
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The purpose of the measures is to insulate a vital part of our security and intelligence system from the conflicting pressures which were so apparent in the past.
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