Conflicts
['kɒnflɪkts] or ['kɑnflɪkts]
Examples
- The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When a government routine conflicts with the nation's purposes--the statesman actually makes a virtue of his loyalty to the routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I summoned all the resolutions I had made, in all those many days and nights, and all those many conflicts of my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Foreigners entered the country, and conflicts between them and Japanese gentlemen of spirit ensued. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They went on to exhausting conflicts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was as blind to his inward troubles as he to hers: she had not yet learned those hidden conflicts in her husband which claim our pity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Edison's claims were strenuously and stubbornly contested throughout a series of intense legal conflicts that raged in the courts for a great many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One other thing besides the conflicts of the time perhaps stimulated the mind of Plato in this direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Would not our legislatures be cut up into antagonistic parties, would not the conflicts of the nation be concentrated into one heated hall? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From that time onward the complicated economic and political and religious conflicts of Europe and Western Asia impeded further intellectual progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was as if he were possessed with all the devils, after one of these unaccountable conflicts with Ursula. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We have traced in broad outline the appearance and conflicts and replacements of these empires of the great rivers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the first time also we encounter social conflicts comparable to our own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These troubles interwove with the feudal conflicts of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And there should also be toils and pains and conflicts prescribed for them, in which they will be made to give further proof of the same qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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