Divergent priorities – Conflicting (or often changing) views about which issues or approaches should be given precedence.
Participants' accounts were not homogenous and consistent, since divergent and conflicting opinions were present: traditional-conservative opinions coexisted with emerging more progressive voices.
Specifically, adopting a more open approach to adolescents' sexual activity may lead to divergent views and conflicts between providers, especially when new staff comes to the health centre.
But no one has figured out a way to reconcile the divergent and often conflicting interests of such a large group of countries.
Global, national and local communities are heading in divergent and often conflicting demographic directions.
Messy problems involve divergent, at times conflicting, interests and perspectives and their urgency prevents comprehensive analysis.
An additional complicating factor is that in almost any policy problem, a multiplicity of divergent and potentially conflicting objectives has to be considered.
Building on the literature on the shaping of markets, we show that the construction of a market for clean technologies hinges upon the composition of a complex network of actors with divergent, and sometimes conflicting, interests, in which market devices (in this case, a technology list) play a pivotal role.
When an allele has opposite effects on fitness in males and females (intralocus conflict) divergent evolution of associated traits is likely to be constrained, and sexual antagonism in allele selection can persist over long timescales [ 3- 6].
Stakeholders at different organizational levels may have divergent and potential conflicting perceptions and appraisals of organizational quality and productivity measures (i.e. organizational discrepancy); or holding incompatible "mental models" on organizational matters [ 14].
