Nor is the present conflict for control of it necessarily insoluble.
Before the Newtown horror, I, like many people, was in conflict regarding gun control.
This, more dangerous type of escalation, is rooted less in negotiating advantage than in the North's apparent conviction that it can control conflict at every level of violence.
The United States is concerned that a buildup of Turkish troops in northern Iraq could spark a conflict with Kurdish groups that control much of the area.
According to Salih, who has traveled widely in the region for the International Crisis Group, there is a real risk of conflict between Kurdish factions for control of Qamishli in coming months.
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Amid last week's fighting in several northern provinces, al-Maliki called for dialogue among tribal leaders, government officials and security forces to stop the conflict from spiraling out of control and keep the country's nascent democracy from unraveling.
The conflict could affect whether Murdoch keeps control of the British part of his media empire.
France has sent some 2, 000 troops to help Malian forces fight the militants, saying it entered the conflict because the insurgents, in control of the north, were advancing south, threatening to turn Mali into a "terrorist state".
Aircraft carriers and J-15 fighters would further enhance its ability to stop the U.S. intervening in a conflict over Taiwan, and test its control of the Western Pacific.
Since last year, Pakistan has been in a diplomatic doghouse for trying to conquer territory on India's side of the line of control and risking a wider conflict.
While community banks are dedicated to reaching poorer people or immigrants, at larger banks decisions about whether to accept or reject such new customers can cause conflict between the marketing and risk-control departments.
Mr Bohollagama was able to point to this as a model for the continuing conflict in the north, where the Tigers still control two of Sri Lanka's 25 districts.
In 2002, Bush recognized that the root of the Palestinian conflict with Israel is not Israel's continued control over Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem but the absence of Palestinian leadership willing to live at peace with Israel.
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No one knows when the conflict will end or who is likely to take control if the rebels win, since they are divided among themselves, and include former Qadhafi officials, Islamic extremists, along with genuine democratic activists.
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Speaking to a black religious group Wednesday in Miami, Florida, Dean -- an outspoken critic of the Iraq war -- raised the question of whether money spent on the conflict would have been better spent on flood-control projects in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rebels now control large sections of Syria, but the conflict has appeared to be largely in stalemate for months.
The conflict was triggered Thursday when Georgian forces moved to seize control of the Russian-backed separatist province of South Ossetia, which had been nominally outside of Tbilisi's control since 1992.
The alleged clearing of Sunni villages may also reflect that President Assad's regime is losing control over the use of force in the conflict, said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics.
But the fight for control of Qusayr has also raised fears the Syria conflict could destabilize Lebanon, with news that Hezbollah fighters have joined al-Assad's forces in laying siege to the city.
Whenever you feel a conflict coming on, ask yourself, are you choosing intimacy or control?
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It would be manifestly contrary to U.S. interests even to try since those interests dictate that the American military be able to control space as a theater of operations in any future conflict.
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In the West, Arab denunciations of the settlements are commonly taken to signify that the conflict is no longer about Israel's existence but only its control of the "occupied territories, " relinquishment of which would displace only 120, 000 or so Jewish settlers.
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Somerville has given up any control in either and is in compliance with Berkeley's conflict of interest policies.
"McArthur is also personally benefiting from ASEA's control of the 457 plan" in what amounts to a conflict of interest, says the Alabama Securities Commission report.
Areas of conflict - such as Angola, Somalia and Afghanistan - are problematic for polio control because of the difficulties in running successful immunisation campaigns.
The conflict is now supposed to be about discrete issues such as boundaries, arms control and security arrangements, rights in Jerusalem and the like, issues that negotiators can nibble away at until the whole conflict is resolved.
The conflict broke out on 7 August when Georgia launched an assault to wrest back control of the Moscow-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia, triggering a counter-offensive by Russian troops who advanced beyond South Ossetia into Georgia's heartland.
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.
The Supremacy Clause makes it more than clear that when a conflict exists between a federal law and a state law, the federal law will control.
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