Conflicting in a sentence as an adjective

She made two directly conflicting statements in press releases, which is what he pointed out. The first, which she made at the outset of the case, was that he was facing 35 years if convicted at trial.

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These are often conflicting requirements. People who develop a very elaborate personal coding style will be fast on single projects, but slow to work with other people's code.

As opposed to thinking it but refusing to print it because it would involve conflicting with something they printed four or eight or twelve years ago? I would hope that a newspaper could be trusted to reverse the opinions it prints.

Well, of course any large group of people with divergent opinions will be self-conflicting when examined as a whole. I understand why we do it; our brains pattern-match people into camps and construct narratives on our behalf to make sense of the world.

It's not illegal, and it's a fair point that developers should anticipate Facebook's conflicting interests. But it's also fair to publicly shame sleazy behavior when you see it.

Please, I do not want to discuss the merits of each approach, I would just like to understand the point of view, especially the seemingly conflicting uses of the words "free" and "permissive".

If I have a "manager" telling me what to do, AND a "project manager" giving me conflicting instructions, AND random execs with an unclear relationship to the project coming along and tell me stuff, we aren't going to be together long, sorry. 6.

Do Google really think they can create a thriving ecosystem and market if they start throwing around inconsistent and conflicting rules and enforcement around apps? Yes, inconsistent enforcement sort of worked for Apple, but they at least had a coherent platform.

What you heard is all true, and those are actually not really conflicting point of views. The situation in China is very unique and cannot be fully explained without going on and on about the culture and its current political/economical climate.

But I think these conflicting intuitions make some people libertarians towards businesses like airbnb and uber, and other people think those businesses are just profiting off of skirting regulations.

They could say one thing on one event, and another division could say something completely conflicting a week or two later. Their execution strategy and ability to put the entire company behind it has been sorely lacking for many years, something even Ballmer recognized before announcing he was stepping down.

AirBnB/pg have made several conflicting statements, called reporters liars for repeating official statements, and in general, proven to be less consistent/trustworthy than "EJ", which considering her anonymous status, really says something. The only reason I can see to doubt EJ's story is if you're in the "this is a conspiracy against AirBnB" camp.

Of course, there are a bunch of conflicting opinions on who's to blame for the breakdown in talks, but the basic, unarguable outcome was that Arafat wasn't willing to take Israel's best offer. Sharon obviously knew that, and also knew that Arafat's successor was going to be the comparatively mild mannered Abbas, who Sharon was already dealing with constructively.

At the very point when the companies were negotiating and finalizing the AndroidPayPal deal, Bedier was interviewing for job at Google without informing PayPal of this conflicting position. Bediers conduct during this time amounted to breach of his responsibilities as PayPal executive."

Also, often times, submitted patches would not get accepted because the submitted feature is conflicting with an enterprise-feature - maybe even just one that's planned for somewhere in the future. So in the end most of these open-core projects are exclusively developed by the same people who do the enterprise version and have a vested interest in selling enterprise licenses, degrading the "open" edition to nothing more than a trial version.

Conflicting definitions

adjective

in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley

See also: contradictory self-contradictory

adjective

on bad terms; "they were usually at odds over politics"; "conflicting opinions"