There is a straightforward conflict between expert macroeconomic management and democracy.
The lack of extended asides matters less when discussing the relatively straightforward conflict between Darwinism and religion.
The jointly planned party, scheduled in conjunction with the Farnborough International Airshow here, showed that the battle between Airbus and Boeing is much more complex than a straightforward conflict of Europe versus the United States.
But it's also a straightforward conflict between two countries seeking to be the dominant power in the Persian Gulf.
The conflict was a straightforward struggle over money (the last profits of the declining fur trade) and land (the Connecticut River Valley, which has the region's most productive soil).
Addressing the congregation, Williams said: "Many people of my generation and younger grew up doubting whether we should ever see another straightforward international conflict, fought by a standing army with conventional weapons.
But in an interview that was punctuated by steady knocking on her dressing room door as people came backstage to offer congratulations, Ms. Koniordou spoke about the layers of meaning beneath the apparently straightforward moral conflict.
He then took these two straightforward, if conflicting, impulses — romantic evergreen youth and futurist technology — and combined them, crossing divides of tailoring and construction, while leaving an impression of a single silhouette or line.
This war, in short, is so messy as to make the earlier conflicts seem straightforward by comparison.
A straightforward history of the conflict, it is built on dozens of interviews with veterans.
