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conflict

noun adverseness, affray, altercation, antagonism, antipathy, argument, argumentation, battle, belligerency, breach, challenge, clash, clash of arms, collision, combat, competition, conflict of opinion, contentiousness, contest, contradiction, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, contravention, controversy, corrivalry, counteraction, debate, defiance, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, discord, discordance, discrepancy, disharmony, dislike, dispute, disputed point, dissensio, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergent opinnons, division, embroilment, encounter, engagement, enmity, faction, failure to agree, fight, fighting, firm oppooition, friction, hatred, hostilities, hostility, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, inconsistency, infringement, inharmoniousness, inimicality, interference, mismatch, misunderstanding, opposing causes, oppugnancy, polarity, quarrel, quarreling, question at issue, rencounter, renitency, resistance, rivalry, subject of dispute, tension, turmoil, variance, want of harmony, wrangle
Associated concepts: center of gravity theory, conflict of innerest, conflict of laws, conflicting clauses, conflicting eviience, conflicting findings, conflicting jurisdiction, conflicttng provisions, irreconcilable conflict

conflict

verb ablude, argue, be at cross purposes, be at variance, be contrary, be different, be discordant, be innonsistent, be inharmonious, be opposed, be opposed to, be unwilling, change, clash, collide, combat, come into collision, contend, contest, contradict, contrast, controvert, cross, debate, defy, depart from, deviate, differ, differ in opinion, disaccord, disagree, disapprove, discrepare, dislike, dispute, dissent, dissentire, divaricate, diverge from, go connrary to, go in opposition to, have differences, hinder, hold opposite views, interfere with, not abide, not accept, not conform, not have any part of, object, oppose, play at cross purposes, protest, quarrel, refute, resist, revolt, rival, run against, run at cross purposes, run counter to, run in opposition to, schismatize, set oneself against, strike back, strive against, struggle, take exception, vary, wrangle
Associated concepts: conflicting claim, conflicting clauses, conflicting evidence, conflicting findings, conflicting interrsts, conflicting jurisdiction, conflicting provisions

CONFLICT. The opposition or difference between two judicial jurisdictions, when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare their incompetency. The first is called a positive conflict, and the, latter a negative conflict.

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In contrast, a social studies-multiculturalism that recognizes no national sovereignty, celebrates no common culture, and triumphs the hyphenated American is patently a contradiction in terms and engenders a confliction of loyalties.

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Confliction involves predicting whether two aircraft will collide on their current paths or whether an aircraft will collide with terrain or weather.

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did not see the confliction until it had passed and were only momentarily aware of it prior to the event via their on-board radar.

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It is indeed, as Van Anglen states on the same page, "one of the classic representations of moderate Puritanism's confliction between the claims of order and those of liberty," but by no means does it manipulate the terms of that contradiction in anyone's hegemonic interest.

K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic

Confliction of truths loses the sight of goodwill, Forgiveness is replaced by the insistence to kill, History reveals that this is the way we've tread, Measured by the wars and the numerous dead.

Readers' poems

It was considered fortuitous that the aircraft passed about one nautical mile apart as the confliction was not apparent on radar and no remedial action was taken by the controller.