direct conflict
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandconflict
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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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 ofdirectandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdirect conflict
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This ordinariness, which stands indirectconflictwith their actual fame, serves both to diffuse fame's negative connotations and promote its accessibility to the audience.
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When they were indirectconflictwith party elites, therefore, anti-party reformers were remarkably unsuccessful at getting their way.
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Certainly, these philosophies are indirectconflictwith the development of sustainable agricultural systems.
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Only between redemptive scientism and traditional religions is there adirectconflict.
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But no amount of empirical data can determine which ethical principle to choose when two respected principles are indirectconflict.
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At this point, the interests of the state would appear to be indirectconflictwith those of the community.
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There is adirectconflictbetween the amount of technology used and the strain that places on the natural environment.
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However, this strategy is indirectconflictwith the policymakers' aim to reduce the share of public health care expenditures.
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Some of these values were indirectconflictwith the traditional elements of kinship politics.
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It also put it indirectconflictwith the government, who accorded it greater attention than most.
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The anecdotal insistence of the immediate foreground forms an obdurate presence indirectconflictwith the symbolic, monumental status of the tall buildings.
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In other words, health care resource allocation based on principles of equal value of life seems to be indirectconflictwith rational social choice.
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He sees adirectconflicthere, and, bravely, rejects the relativity of simultaneity.
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For a variety of reasons, these 'false' love triangles produce littledirectconflict, eliciting helplessness, confusion and misery instead of anger.
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It is easily seen that if we impose versions of these two principles on the justice relation, then we attain adirectconflictwith the separability condition.
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Indeed, what makes the ability to identify distance as the true cause especially noteworthy is that the error introduced did not bring the distance and horizon hypotheses intodirectconflict.
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Mosley was careful never to involve his movement indirectconflictwith the forces of law and order.
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More grave than the problem of fragmented authority was the commission's lack of power, which limited its effectiveness and threatened to bring it intodirectconflictwith other federal agencies.
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That is indirectconflictwith the code for fiscal stability.
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They are propounding a theory which is indirectconflictwith the views which they put on platforms here.
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