Though it all looks so clear in hindsight, America's victory and the Soviet Union's defeat in the last century's defining conflict was by no means a foregone conclusion.
Twenty years after Mandela pulled of his miracle of racial reconciliation, the defining conflict facing the ANC is less about race than class, according to Mbeki.
(His hostility toward China endears him to the Bannon wing of the Republican Party, which views the U.S.-China relationship as the defining conflict of the modern world).
What is happening between Shias and Sunnis is becoming the Middle East's defining conflict - the one that crosses borders, the most destructive way that the Syrian war is spreading hatred and violence.
The procedure of defining conflict region is illustrated in Figure 2. The analysis of several datasets may reveal a few conflict regions separated by regions of no conflict.
But these are relatively infrequent and hardly the defining conflicts of a trade that purports to be unified from the Financial Times to the Daily Mirror.
For decades the antagonism between the two was one of the world's defining conflicts.
She may not have realized it fully at that time, but Deanna Baxam had just been sucked into one of the defining conflicts of the modern age: religious fundamentalism versus the US national security apparatus.
Additional research is necessary to evaluate different methods for defining conflicts of interest and to determine their relative impact on the decision-making capabilities of the organization.
Additional research is necessary to be able to evaluate different methods for defining conflicts of interest and to determine their relative impact on the decision-making capabilities of the organization.
