How to Use come into conflict in a Sentence

come into conflict

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  • But those goals can come into conflict, as is the case now.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The two come into conflict when Godzilla poses a threat to her unhatched egg.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
  • These crews come into conflict over something and this game plays out those gritty battles on the neon streets.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • And, in fact, Beijing said this is the one issue that the U.S. and China, the two most powerful countries in the world, could come into conflict with.
    CBS News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • This was not the first time the Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue has come into conflict with officials over a wedding.
    Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
  • And what happens when human rights claims come into conflict?
    Laura E. Alexander, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
  • Walker believes that the couple might have come into conflict after Norris arrived, and that the boyfriend may have left.
    Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • All the characters still have their own needs, desires, wants, and those needs, desires, wants might very well come into conflict with other characters on the show.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • That has contributed a steep discount for Russian crude and ensured many current shipments don’t come into conflict with the $60-a-barrel cap.
    David Uberti, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The results suggest a clear rise in tension among managers as various aspects of their work seemed to come into conflict with one another.
    Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • What Biden is really pushing are two goals that can easily come into conflict.
    Josh Boak, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • An effort to save a native trout population from mudslides and fire debris by moving fish to the Arroyo Seco has come into conflict with the city of Pasadena’s plans to draw more water from the stream.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • Few close relationships of long duration escape the reality that the people in it come into conflict from time to time.
    Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • On Sunday night, two Oscar narratives will come into conflict.
    Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • When those things come into conflict, that's an opportunity for heroism.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • These glorious but unreal fantasies come into conflict in the midst of Pladek’s lush, evocative descriptions of Wisconsin plant life.
    Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • And increasingly in federal courts, when these two things come into conflict, religion wins.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But heritage comprises the horrible parts of history, too, the ones many would prefer to forget, or over which societies continue to come into conflict.
    Annalisa Bolin, Longreads, 28 July 2022
  • The new world and the old world will continue to come into conflict, and the battle lines will continue to shift in unanticipated ways as unexpected networks rise and create new vectors of disruption.
    James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Wildlife advocates are suing the Obama administration to prevent the killing of grizzly bears that come into conflict with elk hunters in northwest Wyoming, Reuters reported Monday.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2015
  • And the underlying idea between both of these penitentiary systems, that people who had come into conflict with the law, who had been convicted of crimes, shouldn’t be subject to corporal punishment.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Israel also has good working relations with the Russian military in neighboring Syria -- where both sides’ maintain a special hotline to make sure their air forces do not come into conflict.
    NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • SpaceX has also come into conflict with residents of Boca Chica, Tex., who say they have been pressured to sell their properties as the company expands its operations there.
    Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 9 May 2021
  • But farther north, where economic opportunity is thin on the ground and a sudden influx of tourism has slammed into communities ill-prepared for it, Povlsen has come into conflict with locals.
    Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • But, as Aviv explores, Loftus’s findings can come into conflict with urgent contemporary moral issues.
    The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The big problems of morality, to state the obvious, come about because the interests of different individuals come into conflict.
    Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2010
  • Kaplan expects the Supreme Court to work out compromises when the Constitution's equal protection and free exercise clauses come into conflict.
    Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 25 June 2020
  • However, it is forecast to come into conflict with dry air and upper-level winds limiting its chance of tropical maturity.
    David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 14 June 2021
  • There’s usually little doubt about who wields more power in these for-profit/nonprofit relationships, especially when the two sides come into conflict.
    Maria Aspan, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Such overtures notwithstanding, the university and hospital have at times come into conflict with the largely African American neighborhoods around them.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2020

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