"We see little benefit in constructing a new layer of bureaucracy, with its incumbent expense," he said, adding that the self-regulatory model "typified by Finra is replete with conflicts of interest".
"His actions and nonactions vis-à-vis the Council not only give the appearance of impropriety but are clearly improper and replete with conflicts that cannot be ignored or waived," the lawyers wrote.
The history of science which is, after all, a history of all-too-human scientists—is replete with conflict.
The possible relation between job strain and blood pressure levels has been extensively studied, but the literature is replete with conflicting results regarding the relationship between the two.
Freud believed that a psychologically challenging situation, replete with emotional conflicts, could reawaken memories of an earlier (childhood) situation containing similar, unresolved conflicts between biological drives and social demands or childhood experiences.
"The failure of M.M.S. is legendary in a government that is replete with regulatory conflicts of interest," Mr. Weissman said.
It's also very likely that Brennan's vetting questionnaire was replete with numerous conflicts of interest related to his deep involvement in the privatization of US intelligence.
The factory model requires of children that they independently decipher the world's largest bureaucracy — replete with invisible rules, conflicting stakeholders, perverse incentives and assembly-line product delivery.
But after an outburst of violence in recent months that has killed dozens, Indonesia is coming under renewed calls to solve a conflict, replete with economic misery and human rights abuses, that has tainted the country's image as an emerging democratic giant.
In 2013, the ADL denounced The Cushion in the Road, a book Walker released that same year, which the organization said devoted "80 pages to a screed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict replete with fervently anti-Jewish ideas and peppered with explicit comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany".
Since Sunday night, the so-called "umbrella revolution" has turned the city's gleaming central business district into a virtual conflict zone, replete with shouting mobs, police in riot gear, and clouds of tear gas.
