You need look no further than the crashing and banging on Wall St (and other financial centres), as New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer hammers out ingrained conflicts of interest from banking business models.
He had told Washington Post newspaper that China had a "deeply ingrained" need for conflict with Japan and other countries in the region, using disputes to bolster nationalism and support for its authorities.
"This conflict has become ingrained and inter-generational," Mr Nolan said.
It's a shame that the trifling divisions beneath all political and religious conflict seem more ingrained in real-life humans than they do in fictional Zygons, or that this episode will likely not be used in any real-life peace talks any time soon.
Never before has a nominee for Secretary of State been proposed who had such an outsized conflict of interest ingrained so deeply into his or her resume.
Some participants mentioned that their experience involved a problem of role conflict with deeply ingrained habits that they had developed through more familiar classroom experiences in which they were passive recipients of knowledge and rules in clinical practice.
Executives often feel inauthentic when their behavior conflicts with their ingrained values and beliefs, and doubly uncomfortable when others assume that it is a true reflection of who they are.
Of course, an argument for expanding the number of cost systems conflicts with a strongly ingrained financial culture to have only one measurement system for everyone.
Joe loves to be right and to tell other people that they are wrong, whether at the dinner table or on television, and his zeal comes into conflict with both Valerie's ingrained habit of secrecy and her natural reserve.
Given that the concern about conflicts of interest is so ingrained in our way of thinking, rejection of proposals to allow corporations to investigate themselves as a predicate to government regulatory agency involvement should be logical.
Churchill himself, the keen student of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was adamant the British Empire was engaged in a historic conflict for European liberalism in the face of ingrained German barbarism.
