Word: conflictingly
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...Kelly, a local shop clerk who withheld her surname to avoid conflict, said, “I saw [them on] three separate occasions. One time, Anonymous were in a combination of handkerchiefs and Guy Fawkes masks. One time, they were all in masks, and another other time there were bare faces...
...Ritchie loves characters who provide conflict and, more important, congestion; his pictures are downright garish with local color. A few from this fresco: Tank (Nonso Anozie), an Anglo-Afro bruiser who's fond of Merchant-Ivory dramas; Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy), a gang member who unexpectedly plights his homoerotic troth to the flummoxed One Two ("What exactly is it you want to do to me, Bob?"); and, best of the lot, Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell), a junk rocker who has faked his own death to sell more CDs. It's a star-making part for Kebbell...
...You’ve had violence influence your work before. Being from Ireland, how did the conflict there shape...
...citizens voted in the presidential election—and this was considered a “good” turnout, up four percent from turnout in 2000. In the 2000 presidential election, a staggering 20 percent of eligible non-voters avoided the polls due to “scheduling conflict or inconvenient voting procedures.” And, of those affected by such calendar clashes, most cited inflexible workday schedules—too often correlated with lower socioeconomic status—as barriers to voting. At its best, then, the system is merely broken; at its worst, it discriminates along...
That said, it behooves us as citizens to remember that not all 46 percent of those who didn’t vote in 2004 failed to do so because of a scheduling conflict; some were merely apathetic, others illiterate, and still others indecisive. Political participation is the bedrock of American democracy, and those citizens abstaining out of mere lack of interest should remember that their vote, however insignificant it may seem, does actually matter...