Sentence examples similar to conflicting- from inspiring English sources

She took on the newly created job of representing moorland owners a year ago, convinced she could find a bridge between apparently conflicting interests.

Thus began a constitutional and legal battle over conflicting rights, with the rape victim's lawyers arguing that under EU law she had a right to travel and indeed a right to life, as an enforced pregnancy brought up by rape might end in her taking her own life.

That may be optimistic after the legal battle between the conflicting freedoms of a Northern Irish bakery and a gay couple.

Do all the conflicting perspectives come at a cost?

Israel has been sending out conflicting messages about claims that Hamas militants have captured one of its soldiers.

A book published on the eve of the Lib Dem conference tries to make sense of these conflicting instincts.

There was a confused picture on Monday over who might be behind the shopping-centre attack, with one of a variety of conflicting Twitter accounts claiming to represent al-Shabaab insisting that three of the attackers were US citizens.

Media: Leaks and half-truths Leaks, injunctions, half-truths and conflicting accounts characterised the media's coverage of the cash for honours affair.

The most widely rehearsed version of events has Finn as a kind of fast-bowling Helen of Troy, tossed back and forth between the conflicting authorities of England's bowling coach David Saker and Angus Fraser at Middlesex.

That voter has a hotch-potch of sometimes conflicting political feelings about the world, which might be summed up in Matthew d'Ancona's phrase "individualism plus the NHS".

This may be due to a phenomenon known by pollsters as Shy Tory factor: some people, when polled, will state a voting intention considered more socially acceptable to the poll-taker, but cast a conflicting one in the privacy of the voting booth.