On the positive side, it resolved the basic conflict between regional ambitions and the need for coordination.

He's made a fantastic reconciliation of that basic conflict we talked about earlier.

Focus on one of life's basic conflicts, in this case the eternal friction between parents and teenagers.

A good basic conflict that doesn't get resolved until the end.

The morning/night divide is another basic conflict between civilization and barbarism.

But such basic conflicts can be made less serious.

Did he really think that things could have been settled by coming together sexually, when nothing of the basic conflict had been dealt with?

Such a basic conflict underscored what the business world calls corporate culture - how different companies go about doing their work.

As a result there is a basic conflict of interest between the two classes.

There is a basic conflict between the medical model of care and a social work model (Willcocks, 1986).