• By acknowledging the rights of individuals and groups and ensuring their equitable access to society, advocates of multiculturalism also maintain that such a policy benefits both individuals and the larger society by reducing pressures for social conflict based on disadvantage and inequality.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.

    NPR: Placido Domingo in Handel's 'Tamerlano'

  • The conflict over admissions based on racial preferences used to be limited to America's universities.

    ECONOMIST: Reverse discrimination

  • Fee-based business helps take any conflict of interest in terms of how an advisor gets paid off of the table.

    FORBES: Are You An Outperformer ... Or An Underperformer?

  • However, challenges still remain with regard to the quality of and access to education, especially for rural-based children and those in the conflict-affected northern region.

    UNESCO: Family Basic Education (FABE)

  • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group that monitors the conflict, said at least 22 people including 18 rebels had been killed in the latest fighting in Qusair.

    BBC: Hezbollah leader Nasrallah vows victory in Syria

  • Somali has seen more than 20 years of conflict which saw clan-based warlords, rival politicians and Islamist militants battle for control of the country.

    BBC: Somali woman cleared in 'false rape' case

  • The new government is trying to rebuild Somalia after more than 20 years of conflict which saw clan-based warlords, rival politicians and Islamist militants battle for control of the country.

    BBC: Somali woman who alleged rape given jail term

  • "iFACTS, based on Trajectory Prediction and Medium Term Conflict Detection, provides decision-making support and helps controllers manage their routine workload, increasing the amount of traffic they can comfortably handle, " trumpets the Nats website.

    BBC: Why air traffic control still needs the human touch

  • Qatar-based al-Jazeera has covered the Syrian conflict extensively since it began.

    BBC: Al-Jazeera website defaced by pro-Syrian hackers

  • There was a built-in conflict there because the management fee was based on assets under management, which encouraged REITS to leverage to the maximum.

    FORBES: Dow Jones Interactive

  • Elected to a three-year term that began in April 2012, Hummel has consistently sought to find compromise and resolve conflict with management as well as with Phoenix-based pilots from America West, which merged with US Airways in 2005.

    FORBES: US Airways Pilots Approve Merger Contract in Win for Union President

  • Most of the attacks are blamed on pirates based in largely lawless Somalia, a country racked by poverty and conflict.

    CNN: Pirate attack on Dutch ship thwarted by Russians

  • The conflict between Tony Blair's zeal for market-based reforms and his successor's preference for central standards backed by big spending splintered Labour for years.

    ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown's latest relaunch

  • For example, if robotic devices can restore sight or mobility, it may be necessary to redefine what disability is which might, in turn, conflict with the assumptions on which existing disability-rights legislation is based.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • The following day (19 October), UNESCO will join forces with the Monaco-based Peace and Sport organization, with which UNESCO will develop projects in post-conflict, post-disaster situations.

    UNESCO: "How Youth Drive Change" - UNESCO Youth Forum 2011

  • Their case is based on existing European Union sanctions against the Yugoslav regime - imposed during the Kosovo conflict - and which the Kosovars maintain should be applied to the football team.

    BBC: Yugoslavia may face Euro expulsion

  • Our opposition is based on one thing, which is our belief that a solution to this long conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only be resolved by face-to-face negotiations that will result in a Palestinian state and an Israeli state living side by side in peace and security.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • In another development, Iraqi-based Ayatollah Ali Sastani, a top Shiite authority, issued an edict Tuesday on the conflict.

    CNN: Saddam urges battle for every road

  • In fact, according to the New York-based Families and Work Institute, men now report even higher levels of work-family conflict than women do.

    CNN: Why is 'having it all' just a women's issue?

  • Convinced that education plays a key role in reducing conflict, prejudice, poverty and intolerance around the world, his work is based on the guiding principle of providing access for all young people to better schooling.

    UNESCO: Detailview | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • The group relies on a network of Syria-based activists that have been tracking the number of dead, injured and missing since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.

    NPR: Syrian Regime Battles Rebels Outside Damascus

  • The UK-based activist group is one of the most prominent organisations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict.

    BBC: Syria conflict: Many dead in huge Damascus bombing

  • Damascus-based journalist Alaa Ebrahim told the BBC it was "the biggest explosion" the city had seen since the conflict began two years ago.

    BBC: Damascus military facilities 'hit by Israel rockets'

  • Contrary to prudent practice for pensions, no one in Rhode island is checking to see if the managers, who have an incentive (aka conflict of interest) to inflate the values of the portfolios they manage (since their compensation is based largely upon such values), are telling the truth.

    FORBES: Rhode Island Pensioners 3% COLA Will Go To Pay Wall Street 4%+ Fees

  • Industry insiders say Google is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft over the future of the mobile-phone market.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Industry insiders say Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) over the future of the mobile-phone market.

    FORBES: What The Google Phone Could Do For Linux

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