Many tech gadgets such as smartphones use conflict materials, so-called because they are mined in warlike conditions and traded by armed groups.
In his first television interview since walking away from "Chappelle's Show" and a deal that could have earned him $50 million, Mr. Chappelle, right, said that he felt conflicted about the material he was producing.
McManus seems more than conflicted about the material in his first book, but acknowledges that he can't imagine life without it.
He tried always to instil some of that mystery in his work.' Later, his early grounding in science resurfaced, and his work, bigger and bolder now, began to use what seemed to be conflicting raw materials: electricity and animal fat, batteries and swaths of felt, wire cables and great chunks of stone.
Thus we thought that as we taught students material that conflicted with their personal belief system, our instruction was unlikely to change their acceptance of material; instead we understood the influence of our teaching to only influence students' understandings of material.
Generally, biography skates along the surface of a life without allowing the reader access to the messy, conflicted and unapologetically subjective material of memoir.
In particular, she said the testimony of Zola Tongo, the driver of the taxi in which Anni was killed, was "conflicted in virtually every material respect and in places made no sense".
He was born in India, in 1918, during the overseas missionary service of his parents, a three-year period that ended in "frustration and disappointment" for Ethel and George Birch, whose evangelical zeal conflicted with the more material progress being pursued by the missionary Sam Higginbottom, their boss at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute.
Two conflicting objectives, minimizing material cost and weight, were considered with the design variables being fibre type, fibre orientation angle and fibre volume fraction of the laminas.
Fowler sat on the material for days, conflicted about what to do with it.
