Conflicting

"Conflicting" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Conflicting reports prompted the director to reconsider her position.

There is conflicting information regarding that drug's safety.

We are receiving conflicting information about the event.

The eyewitnesses gave conflicting accounts of what they had seen.

Tom and Mary's conflicting political views resulted in near-constant arguments.

Her conflicting desires to consume chocolate and to lose weight resulted in her experiencing cognitive dissonance.

She gave me a conflicting answer.

I have conflicting feelings about my childhood.

The president-elect has yet to clarify his views, having taken conflicting positions on almost every political issue he chose to address during the election campaign, and on other issues having limited himself to meaningless, preposterously vague promises about the nation's supposed future greatness.

There are controversies and conflicting opinions.

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To eliminate conflicting movements at the busy Brighton Main Line station, Network Rail proposes to rebuild the station with two extra platforms (from six to eight) and a larger concourse.

in the absence of all conflicting evidence

On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.

Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.

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