"You know what I mean?" And there is an inescapable conflict of interest between the staff's duty to the law, and to therapeutic confidentiality.
But the clout of the fertiliser lobby and their agricultural allies in government resist that.State subsidies are a $1 trillion political-economy problem, rather than the result of an inescapable conflict between growth and the environment.
Because he controls Italy's three private television networks, its largest publishing house and a financial-services conglomerate, Mr. Berlusconi's political ambitions give rise to a seemingly inescapable conflict of interest between his public role and business interests.
Historian Jan Adams explained the conflict in the following manner: "Deeply embedded and seemingly inescapable conflict between these two major Soviet foreign policy institutions and their missions.
Of course, when I read Dostoyevsky, Rousseau, and Plato, I knew that I was also reading books that arose from experiences utterly alien to mine — but the czar, the king, and the jury faced in those books were equally alien to me, whereas, when it came to black American life, my own implication in the conflict was inescapable.
Through it all, Fawcett argues, four broad ideals have guided liberal practice: "acknowledgement of inescapable ethical and material conflict within society, distrust of power, faith in human progress, and respect for people whatever they think and whoever they are".
Open conflict is not inescapable, but it is under active discussion.
For the soldiers of the Third Infantry Division's First Brigade, the awareness of being part of something vast was accompanied by the inescapable fact of viewing the conflict through the narrow prism of immediate, personal experience.
It's unremittingly gory, but the violence is never sadistic or gratuitous; it's necessary – the inevitable, inescapable result of the two sides' conflicting goals.
"It's the inherent conflict in human attraction — the inescapable fact that all people remain at heart unknown, even to those closest to them — that forms the spine of the novel," The Folded Earth, Ms. Thompson writes.
Those who train or ride the beasts must be terribly conflicted, trying to square their anthropomorphism with the awful but inescapable possibility that the day might, and occasionally did, end with a gunshot behind screens erected in guilty haste.
