The international community's refusal to recognize an armed conflict in Syria can only be characterized as not seeing the forest for the trees.

CNN: Syria must be held to the law of war

If the product or service can be obtained from a source that is not subject to a conflict of interest, that source should be given preference.

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The donor advocate is supposed to take into account only the donor's concerns -- for example, in Paul's case, the abnormal EKG findings -- and not the concerns of the recipient, since sometimes there can be a conflict of interest between the two.

CNN: Organ donor's surgery death sparks questions

But the same is not true in the Senate, where seat allocations are decided by region and can conflict with the national vote.

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You can almost always find another firm with comparable pedigree and performance results that is not subject to the conflict at issue.

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And that the -- there are things that this country does do and certain things this country doesn't do, and that this President has determined that we are going to -- we can protect the security of our country and our people and uphold our values and not have those two conflict.

WHITEHOUSE: White House Press Briefing

Electronic companies, which can trace the origins of most of their materials, concede they cannot guarantee that their products are not tainted with conflict, slave or child labour.

BBC: DR Congo mining fights to revive reputation

But the other thing I think is to say is that the, any society moving out of conflict tries to use those people who have, can provide leadership and whether people like it or not people who have been imprisoned from, from both sides of the community are people who have been providing leadership throughout what has been a very, very tense period.

BBC: Northern Ireland

In cases where there is a conflict of goals and desires, the On-Off relationship can be the perfect arrangement for a couple not looking for marriage or even cohabitation (yes, these couples exist).

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