Naess believed that the two outlooks could coexist, but Watson argues that they are in profound conflict.
What is known about Enron's partnership arrangements so far, he said, reveals an even more profound conflict between management and shareholders.
While news outlets love access to insiders, Mr. Rove's two roles seemed to be in profound conflict after Fox's decision desk projected that the president had won Ohio, all but guaranteeing him re-election.
Just as 19th-century Mormons found themselves in profound conflict with the United States over the issue of polygamy, so could the theologically grounded commitment of today's LDS church to one-man-one-woman marriage place its members on a collision course with the 21st-century American mainstream, which increasingly accepts same-sex marriage.
Add to this the ongoing rate of habitat destruction — including deforestation, often for fuel but usually for producing more food — and other threats like the growing production of biofuels, and it is hard to argue that there isn't a profound conflict between what our species will need to survive by 2050 and the needs of nearly every other species on this planet.
"There is a profound conflict of interest built into the industry's structure," he wrote, "one that grows out of the fact that the management companies are independently owned, separate from the funds themselves, and managers profit by maximizing the funds under management because their fees are based on assets, not performance".
This reveals "a profound disparity, a profound conflict between the two agencies," says William Simmons, an attorney who attended the arguments today.
The Bohai Rim, covering three provinces and two municipalities in China, lies in a region that is sensitive to profound conflict between socioeconomic development and environment pollution in the process of sustainable development.
The most profound conflict in software engineering is not between positivist and interpretivist research approaches or Agile and Heavyweight software development methods, but between the Rational and Empirical Design Paradigms.
American history is a story of profound conflict.
