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We need a lot of help. We need people like you, committed to the region and willing to put aside what has been produced over the past 40 to 50 years of conflict to build a very different tomorrow.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used.

That would appear to be a conflict of interest to me, ... The majority of time you hire outside consultants, they give you the outcome you want because they want to be hired again.

That (strategy) was not in conflict with the way I have run my campaign, ... It shows respect for the voters, to point out that something is untrue.

I was aware of some misunderstandings but I saw them as a temporary problem. But with time the standoff grew into a conflict and backstage intrigues. I am convinced that the time has come when my colleagues lost their team spirit and faith. And today, however hard it may be, I must cut this Gordian knot, in the name of Ukraine.

My best tip: Create re-occurring calendar events for your exercise times. When a conflict arises, it forces you to consciously choose work over exercise, and often you'll find you have time for both.

Whoever wins the presidential election will have no choice but to meet us to discuss the peace process since the conflict involves us. So with this in mind, we are ready to meet any party that comes to power.

will only fuel wider regional instability ... and escalate the conflict with NATO.

We don't see it as a conflict of interest because of that.

We can't believe any trend right now, until the issues tied to this conflict are resolved. Unfortunately, in this kind of market there's going to be no clear direction. We're going to be in this holding pattern for the next few weeks, at least.

Well, they haven't been worked out in the last few days. We are dealing with hundreds of years of conflict.

We've made it clear that this is not the start of a major conflict, but certainly our forces are ready, they are prepared and they will take on the tasks that assigned to them,

We have also cleaned up the issue of the conflict issue, not only with our staff but with board members, being involved with organization that might be a conflict.

We have written our central leadership to make a final decision because we have a tie on the conflict, but we have made it clear that the seat belongs to the JUP-N and awarding it to the JUI-F would be in violation of the understanding that a seat initially awarded to a party would continue to be given to its candidates.

We have this constant recurring conflict between privacy and public records. Newspapers generally are on one side and privacy advocates are on the other.

We know there was some kind of conflict between these two groups.

Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.

We are not the first group to call for impeachment. We have decided to add our voice to the call. All the reasons given for the invasion have shown themselves to be half-truths or misleading. The conflict continues to drag on taking the lives of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. It is clear that George Bush does not intend to change course in an effort to right this great wrong. He has had enough time in his second term to begin a shift and he has not. It is time to remove him from office.

We need to avoid conflict of interest because the whole principle of the site is friends helping friends. We want to offer our members great deals on the services and products they really want.

The problem of dealing with conflict on a large, sort of society-wide scale, is a bit analogous to building a complex aircraft. You need a whole lot of different parts. You can't fly an airplane with just a jet engine, you need wings, you needs control surfaces, you need avionics, you need a seat for the pilot, fuel tanks, all sorts of stuff.

The problem must be solved in the coming days. This conflict absolutely has a negative impact on Russia's image and reputation.

The problem is the U.S. military is very, very cautious about getting involved militarily in a conflict, in a peacemaking role.

Those of us who are soldiers day in and day out, have been kept from table because the church is in conflict and our kids are still dying.

Unfortunately the nature of this conflict is that we're going to have to stay there longer than we would like.

Unfortunately, the escalation of the conflict will continue.

The overarching global imperative to work to combat poverty ... must gain added urgency today when HIV-AIDS, conflict and other catastrophes are helping to reverse years of development gains in the poorest countries,

We are deeply concerned for the safety of our colleague Jill Carroll, a noted professional journalist who has covered all sides of the conflict in Iraq. We call on whoever is holding Carroll to release her at once.

We are dealing here with a conflict of rights; there's right on both sides.

We are not nanve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

We are not interested in conflict, we are interested in a solution.

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

We have made clear within NATO, as well as the United States specifically, that the widening of this conflict by the Serbs to the other countries in the region would have serious consequences,

We have made an important step in the transition from conflict to peace in Northern Ireland.

Voters are not looking for creative, forward-looking candidates, they are looking for people who they think can protect them. They fall back on the familiar and the powerful. The same thing happened in postwar Bosnia, where the parties that fed the conflict in the first place got most of the vote.

Those on either side of the conflict who commit violations must be held accountable -- not only the perpetrators but also those in command of forces which commit such acts may be subject to individual criminal responsibility before a court of law.

The dangerous escalation of the conflict in recent days is a direct consequence of killings being allowed to run unchecked.

The department improperly and in bad faith, misapplied the conflict of interest guidelines, ruining the characters and careers of excellent minority officers.

It's a conflict of parallels.

We want there to be a little less conflict in the world.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

The fact that there is internal conflict (at Sony) is hardly good for investors' trust.

The fact that the Legislature has to approve the budget for an agency that oversees their activities is kind of a conflict of interest.

I think they [Hillary and Bill Clinton] have been - they have shown over and over again that they're willing to be transparent and that they have gone beyond the letter of the law, to show that they're trying to make sure there are bright red, green, purple lines that will separate them from any type of conflict.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

For me, drama is conflict.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

All conflict comes from attachment.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

Cyber will be part of any future conflict -- whether it's a nation state or terrorism,

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

We urge India and Pakistan to continue to act responsibly to avoid a conflict that can have no good result on either side.

We urge all countries in the region to respect the territorial integrity of the Congo, refrain from becoming involved in the conflict and respect international law.

The real problem is that it (F1) is in a permanent state of conflict,

We of course hope to settle the conflict before then. Management will do what it can to avoid a strike that would affect our Easter traffic.

When Joey skates, the children win. Very few pay attention to the number of children living in conflict around the world, in Sudan and Sierra Leone. We know the power of sports and play. And we have to provide those opportunities to children who are suffering the most.

We were scheduled to play at 7 p.m. and our graduation was 7 p.m., a little conflict there. You don't work as hard as these kids have worked to get there and then tell them they can't go.

We are working to calm the tension. We think this is a conflict that began outside of school since it happened on a Monday. The two students who were arrested were found with brass knuckles in their backpacks, they weren't used, but that is a prohibited weapon.

We are witnessing a potentially dangerous deterioration of the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

We can't solve that long conflict in exchanges here.

We can't make the whole system with which society deals with conflict perfect. Can't design it. But we can identify pathological dynamics that make it especially bad. And some of these we know how to fix. There are terrible conflicts that arise out of misunderstandings and people just think someone else is doing something terrible when they're not, and we know how to fix that.

We Colombians want to see action soon which reduces the conflict and means that civilians are not affected by it.

When people look back on this time and look back on this conflict, I honestly believe they will see this as one of the defining moments of our century. And you did it,

When a consultant does other work for the company, it creates either the actual danger or perceived danger of a conflict of interest. The consultant should either work for the board, or work for the company.

This relative stability has been remarkable given the ebbs and flows in job creation, the equity markets, the conflict in Iraq, the election campaign, interest rates and gasoline prices.

There has been conflict with ICANN about who should govern the Internet. We wouldn't be surprised if the Internet became fragmented, because some areas of the world really don't feel included.

There is a conflict between the testimony of Monica Lewinsky and Vernon Jordan, ... Miss Lewinsky says in a particular meeting that Mr. Jordan -- where they discussed about notes that she had been keeping, and Mr. Jordan said go home and make sure they are not there. Mr. Jordan denies that.

There is a clear conflict of interest for the Justice Department,

We're reiterating what Commissioner Hilsher has already said, ... The attorney general's office has no problem with accepting a donation with no ties attached. I am concerned it has ties, particularly since a private attorney representing one of the entities in the state's case has contacted members of the OSRC. The problem lies in the point of focus of the resolution, which includes a voluntary litter reduction plan by the industry. The OSRC is a state agency. If a state agency condones, ratifies or approves any plan by the poultry industry with regard to litter reduction, it is in direct conflict with the state's case, and as a state agency, the OSRC should take that under advisement.

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

You have to believe in the jeopardy of the story - the power of darkness and power of the light, and the conflict of the two. The underlying principle is you have to believe in the power of the ring.

This tragedy underlines the danger faced by unarmed humanitarian workers serving the U.N. in conflict and post-conflict situations,

We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way. In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

We believe it is a conflict for us to have our money with BB&T given its stance and it's likely a conflict for BB&T for our accounts to be with them.

This will ensure fairness since the two envisaged regulators have no conflict of interest in the industry.

There are judges at all levels who may face a situation where there is a potential conflict of interest, either a situation where an attorney presenting a case before them has given a large sum of money or where the judge, as a candidate, has made statements implying favor or bias for one side of a case over the other. Many judges will remove themselves from a case if a conflict is apparent, but there are no official standards. A conflict that one judge might step aside for, another judge might not see as a problem. Rather than a standard set of guidelines for everyone to use it really is, forgive the pun, a judgment call.

We will have less conflict if we turn over the process to the county clerk who is more up on the rules and regulations about what needs to be done, ... We decided to make the change because of what has happened over the last couple of years with the elections. We hope things will run smoother.

We will have a vote, and it will be a fair vote, ... It will happen in a nice, congenial way, or it could happen after a lot of conflict and disagreement. But it will happen.

Under the microscope it is clear that an important watershed is approaching. The short-term downtrend is about to come into conflict with the medium-term uptrend. Typically we would side with the longer-term move but the length of the downtrend from the high is a major cautionary note.

Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of interest or even contempt for the Parliamentary ethics process. Either way, there must be consequences.

but no earlier than us. . . . That would conflict with our state law. And that would not happen.

The government will get a lot of blame; why did we bring this conflict? What happened?

Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it.

Turkey's behavior during the conflict shows that Turkey no longer is a typical Islamic country. But that's exactly what makes it less credible as a mediator.