The phrase "a substantial conflict" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant disagreement or clash between parties, ideas, or interests.
Example: "The negotiations broke down due to a substantial conflict between the two sides regarding the terms of the agreement."
Alternatives: "a significant dispute" or "a major disagreement."
The ethics agency also advises that employees may be directed to divest financial investments if they pose a substantial conflict.
Rule No. 1 is that no scientist with a substantial conflict of interest should be permitted to serve on an advisory committee.
Mr. Howell's lawyers say that his original trial lawyer had a "substantial conflict of interest," that began with a reported death threat.
Moreover, some reasonable people might say that a child in the United States inherently has a substantial conflict of interest with a parent residing in a totalitarian state when that parent -- even when he is not coerced -- demands that the child leave this country to return to a country with little respect for human rights and basic freedoms.
What's more, there has apparently been a collective determination, under the guise of Pruitt's directive, that advisory committee members holding grants from the agency have a "substantial conflict," but there has been no process, no notice given or comment taken, no hearing held, no record compiled, no reasoned explanation.
It feeds fantasies of a virtually infinite tolerance, an absence of substantial conflict, a nostalgic take on Scandinavian mellowness that seems to have less to do with the way things actually were than with a Disneyland view of the past.
It claimed that the law firm had a "direct and substantial conflict with the public interest" in representing the developer in the $150-million 150-million deal
That law says a legislator should not have a financial interest that is "in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest".
A spokesman for the S.E.C. said that such a waiver would not be required unless Mr. Becker had been found to have a substantial financial conflict.
At the same time, though, the state Public Officers Law prohibits an official from having business interests "in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest".
These data indicate participants with aphasia showed substantial conflict effects in lexical decision despite a reasonably good knowledge of English.
