To put it bluntly, the basic business proposition is a stark conflict of purposes.
The disaster threw a spotlight on skulduggery in the Railway Ministry, a fief of two million workers that owns the railways it regulates, a stark conflict of interest that experts have repeatedly criticized.
The committee turned up what appeared to be a stark conflict between Mrs. Clinton's account of the shake-up and documents written by David Watkins, the senior White House aide who carried out the firings.
Today's decision by Justice Lawrence S. Knipel in Brooklyn stood in stark conflict with another decision earlier this week in which a Queens judge said the state should halt work on one of the plants on Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City.
It might not yet be Wall Street or the Square Mile, but as more and more Cubans go into business for themselves under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, the ethos of capitalism is increasingly seeping into the island's daily life, often in stark conflict with fundamental tenets of the Cuban revolution.
With the case presenting "a stark conflict between federal and state policy prerogatives on a matter of literally life-and-death significance," as judges on the First Circuit panel noted this fall, the full court was right to leave Mr. Pleau in the state prison until it resolves the case after full deliberation.
But because journals also profit handsomely by selling drug companies reprints of articles reporting findings from large clinical trials involving their products, editors may "face a frighteningly stark conflict of interest" in deciding whether to publish such a study, Dr. Smith said.
Furthermore, the charges against the five defendants and the punishment proposed are in stark conflict with recent statements from Holder and President Barack Obama regarding drug crime sentencing, the attorneys argue.
Despite the oft stated protest refrains of "hands up, don't shoot," eyewitness testimony was at times in stark conflict about whether or not Michael Brown was surrendering or charging at the time of the fatal shot.
"Which if true, is one of the starkest conflicts of interest I've ever seen".
Insolvency expert Roger Isaacs told the programme that if the emails demonstrated what they appeared to, it would amount to "one of the starkest conflicts of interest I've ever seen".
