conflicting principles
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconflictingandprinciple
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conflicting
adjective
uk/kənˈflɪk.tɪŋ/us/kənˈflɪk.tɪŋ/
Conflicting beliefs, needs, facts, etc. are different ...
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principle
noun
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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With that principle we have to reconcile aconflictingprinciple.
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He said that there was aconflictingprinciple—or could be aconflictingprinciple—in terms of the right of us all to uphold freedom of speech.
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Anotherconflictingprincipleis this, that facilities breed traffic.
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Several different and often conflicting principles of equity in health and health care have been proposed (15).
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All those questions involve difficult judgments in which conflicting principles must be weighed.
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They are men with divergent and conflicting principles, tied by one common bond.
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It is almost impossible to anticipate the nature of any decision because the judges usually refer to wide but conflicting principles.
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There are two potentially conflicting principles here.
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There are two conflicting principles here.
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How are we to square the inherently contradictory and conflicting principles of a limited membership and a membership that reflects the result of each general election?
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In more complex medieval cases, the sometimes conflicting principles of proximity and primogeniture battled, and outcomes were often idiosyncratic.
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That resulted in an amalgamation in his lyrics which form a dichotomy of conflicting principles.
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