Sentence examples for in potential conflict from inspiring English sources

All this activity has put hunters and drillers in potential conflict.

In this sense, the morality of human rights is always in potential conflict with their legal status.

But walking that line is a delicate business, he conceded, because it puts the organization in potential conflict with neighborhood groups that only see the plant in their neighborhood.

In potential conflict with rules that govern how it can spend its funds, the American Egg Board AEBB) lobbied for a concerted attack on Hampton Creek, a food company that has created a low-cost plant-based egg replacement and the maker of Just Mayo, a mayonnaise alternative.

But he also has been drafting his own plan to contain costs and expand insurance coverage, putting him in potential conflict not only with the White House, but also with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and the chairman of the Senate health committee.

Furthermore, since instinctual affections aren't "dependent" on "general benevolence," they are in potential conflict with it.

"The problem might come in potential conflicts of interests," said Jim Kahl, a former deputy general counsel of the F.E.C. and a former official in the Office of Special Counsel.

During the 70s and 80s, British companies, first as nationalised then as privatised concerns, sometimes sold weapons to both sides in potential conflicts.

However much Strange wanted to be a senator, he might have avoided a scenario so clearly rife in potential conflicts; the Senate seat amounted to a favor to a prosecutor from a man facing potential felony charges.

The result is that Richard Benyon, the minister in question, is so enmeshed in potential conflicts of interest that were he to recuse himself from all the issues in which he has a personal stake, he would have nothing to do but order the departmental paperclips.

But the event also saw more than a dozen "carrier-killer" anti-ship ballistic missiles rolling through the streets of the capital, with state television calling them a "trump card" in potential conflicts and "one of China's key weapons in asymmetric warfare".