The local police chief, Guillermo Prieto Quintana, professed ignorance of the conflict, despite having been an officer here for 30 years.
His professed strategy of "managing the conflict" isn't a strategy at all; it's a ticking clock.
GAZA CITY — Hamas has been riding high of late, after its professed victory in the recent conflict with Israel and the overthrow last year of Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, an avowed enemy.
Moreover, by hitting investors, it would conflict directly with his professed long-term goal of encouraging investment.
The US, Britain and other western governments are trying to test whether Russia is sincere about its professed wish to de-escalate the conflict.
Despite the professed stance against involvement in foreign conflict, a significant chunk of Ukip's manifesto is devoted to veterans, guaranteeing anyone who has served for 12 years or over a job in the police, prison or border forces.
Four member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEANN) have made territorial claims in the South China Sea that conflict with China's professed entitlement to all of the "islands and the adjacent waters". Because the "ASEAN Way" is to make decisions by consensus, each member state can, in effect, veto what the group might otherwise decide.
Resuscitating the coal industry also conflicts with Trump's professed goal of protecting the environment.
Despite professed interest by both the government and Savimbi in resolving the conflict, fighting continued throughout 2001 and into 2002.
But in the ugliest conflicts the fighters can become so degraded by violence that killing for professed ideals — usually God, fatherland, or some mixture of the two — comes to be an end in itself, a perverse validation of purpose.
But in the ugliest conflicts the fighters can become so degraded by violence that killing for professed ideals usually God, fatherland, or some mixture of the two comes to be an end in itself, a perverse validation of purpose.
