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How to use the word conflicted in a Sentence?

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Inside Egypt, the regime is clearly conflicted, the military obviously has gained the most and so has the most to lose from a deal like this.

Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Los Angeles are conflicted : Karen Bass, Mike Bonin, all these guys, Los Angeles reflect our values, but Los Angeles's not where we are right now. The moment is about homelessness, public safety, and Los Angeles are not even speaking to that.

Fernando Guerra

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We prevented the United States of America from ever being attacked again. There's a lot of conflicted feelings out there, and I'm included in that. A lot of conflicted feelings with pain and anger, we all have it, every one of us that served there has that, i want everyone out there to know that the pain, the anger, the frustration, the conflicted feelings are real and I know that and I share them. I also want you to know it wasn't in vain, your service mattered and if you wore a uniform your service mattered.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These have been incredibly emotional and trying days and indeed years. We are all conflicted with feelings of pain and anger, sorrow and sadness combined with pride and resilience, there are no words I or the secretary or the president or anyone else will ever do to bring the dead back. But we can always honor them.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s a lot of people who have conflicted interest where they’re supposed to protect Americans, but at the same time, they think they can do that by violating people’s rights constantly and recording data, especially with mass surveillance, i find this stuff to be so frustrating because while they can be sources of legitimate intelligence, there can be lots of collateral damage.

Jacob Appelbaum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Though Bose felt conflicted by the gap between what Japan said it wanted to achieve for Asia and the reality, Though Bose friendships with the Japanese and citizenship made it impossible for Though Bose to dissent.

Takeshi Nakajima

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don't have that same privilege. I think that we send a very clear message to people of color that you're not welcome here, i think that's the message that we're sending to people that have contributed so much to our medium and our industry and in ways that we benefit from.

Joaquin Phoenix

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The end of commission marks the end of a conflicted way of doing business that has been in place since the beginning of the stock market. We can now put a stake in the ground and say it's dead.

Mitch Tuchman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Bob Mueller are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening Bob Mueller to come up with the answers Bob Mueller want, these are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won't even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY !

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Highly conflicted Bob Mueller and his gang of 17 Angry Dems are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched, no Collusion!

Robert Mueller

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Every day, Republican obstruction of Kavanaugh's record gets worse and worse, not only is a massively conflicted Republican lawyer, who previously worked for Judge Judge Kavanaugh, cherry-picking what documents Senate Judiciary Committee can see, he is now telling the Committee what the rest of the Senate and the American public can see -- and Republicans are playing along.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would feel terribly conflicted, and I would try even harder to get that person outside confessional, but I cannot break the seal, the penalty for any priest breaking the seal is excommunication.

Denis Hart

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I’ve been offered some OJ stuff over the years and I always tell people to go someplace else, i hate stuff like that in my store. This is one of the most conflicted episodes we’ve done.

Rick Harrison

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This video is an offense to all women: those who have had an abortion and experienced deep pain and suffering after that choice, those who are conflicted on the issue, and even NARAL’s own constituents who they portray as angry and flippant.

Mallory Quigley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I feel conflicted in the U.S. because I came here for safety and I feel like every part of my identity is being attacked, we are afraid of being Muslim in public or queer in public in a country where that shouldn’t be happening. It’s open-minded; you have thousand of cultures and identities. It’s America.

Mona Siam

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's been really hard, actually, to get through the show, because in many ways, I feel torn. Like, why am I up here dancing and having fun when people are crying over the loss of their loved ones? she continued. However, that is exactly what these people want to do. They want to shut us up. They want to silence us. And we won't let them. We will never let them, because there is power in unity, and I do believe that as much chaos and pain and senseless violence and terrorism that occurs around this world, not just in Paris, as much as that that does occur, there is more goodness in this world. We are here to prove it. Audience members clapped and cheered in support of Madonna’s statements, clearly moved by her words. U2 Visits Memorial Site Near Paris Concert Hall, Bono Speaks Out: 'These Are Our People' Madonna, who visibly teared up during her speech, went on to say that she felt conflicted about performing on Saturday and considered canceling her show. I was gonna cancel my show tonight but then I thought to myself, 'Why should I give that to them? Why should I allow them to stop me and to stop us from enjoying freedom? all of the places where people were killed were places where people were having fun, people were enjoying themselves, eating in restaurants, dancing, singing, watching a soccer match.

Foo Fighters

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm informed by my faith in many things, and this is one of them. So I have to admit that I'm conflicted about this, but here's the deal, this happens in rare cases where the death penalty's given out and you meet family members that have lost a loved one and it's still in their heart. It's etched in their soul. And this is the way that they get closure? I get more comfortable with it, to be honest with you.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm conflicted. I am.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The show is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a reality dating competition show, i play Rachel Goldberg, who is the producer on the show, whose job it is to manipulate the contestants and she is really good at it but it actually makes her hate herself. I’ve never played a character who is so conflicted with who she is.

Shiri Appleby

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When I began doing this film, I had an uneasy feeling inside of me and I felt so conflicted. ... We talked to the producers about our concerns. They just told us, 'If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave,' nothing has changed.

Allison Young

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The title itself should reflect how conflicted Michael Keaton mind is, i wanted to express that this is the moment this character goes into a territory that is not his, basically that he surrenders to himself.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Children, the poor and the needy, those are where he is coming from. He just wants to meet children in conflicted areas and tell the rest of the world their suffering, as he follows their stories, he ends up in war zones.

Toshi Maeda

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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