continuing conflict

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinueandconflict

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continue
verb
uk
/kənˈtɪn.juː/us
/kənˈtɪn.juː/
to keep happening, existing, or doing something, or to cause something or someone to ...
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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 ofcontinueandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Accepting the broad notion that both sides of the conflict recognised the costs ofcontinuingconflict and impending stalemate, she adds her own important gloss.
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Up to the late 1980s and just beyond, scholarship could not entirely escape the influence of thecontinuingconflict.
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Continuingconflictbetween national security goals and economic goals addressed with compromise policy allowing high-resolution systems, foreign data sales, and technology exports with specific government controls.
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Levels of international support forcontinuingconflictwere declining while support for peace was high.
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They are also the victims of thecontinuingconflictbetween vessels of under and over 10 m—between small and large boats, in other words.
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If they were, then there would be no future for the region other thancontinuingconflicterupting, very possibly, into a major conflagration.
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We agree that a political solution is preferable to thecontinuingconflict, which is unlikely to be resolved militarily.
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This latest tragedy demonstrates the distressing human cost of thecontinuingconflictand the urgent need for a settlement.
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This, combined withcontinuingconflictand the absence of significant economic recovery, has led to dramatic deterioration in the humanitarian situation.
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There iscontinuingconflictor war, as well as tribal and international clashes, drug trading and corruption.
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Anothercontinuingconflictbetween the needs of modern life and industry and the beauty of the countryside lies in water.
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We have tended to argue that there is acontinuingconflictbetween persuasion and the law.
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Many young adults who were children when the crisis began have fought in thecontinuingconflict.
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Refusal to discuss is an acceptance ofcontinuingconflict.
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The more people are educated there, the more they will be able to recognise the risks ofcontinuingconflict.
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We must all put ourselves into the mind of each side in thiscontinuingconflict.
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This latest tragedy demonstrates the distressing human cost of thatcontinuingconflictand the urgent need for a settlement.
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We are all aware of the risks of being involved in this situation and of being dragged into acontinuingconflict.
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Britain has so far given over £55 million to help the victims of thecontinuingconflictin that country.
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Continuingconflictin many areas has resulted in persistently high levels of poverty as agricultural production is disrupted and land taken out of cultivation due to instability.
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