Example sentences of "may [adv] be in conflict " in BNC.

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1 In Western democracies such as Britain the protester may also be in conflict with the rule of law .
2 These areas are ( i ) the organization of licensing , censorship and other similar forms of control , and the struggle against these ; ( ii ) the organization of the market , both in its aspect as a trading area whose purposes , in expansion and profit , may often be in conflict with otherwise dominant political and cultural authorities , and its aspect as a mechanism for commodities in this especially sensitive field , where inherent calculations of profit and scale may impose tensions with other conceptions of art and , at a different level , impose its own new forms of commercial controls ; and ( iii ) the uneven and changing relations between a received and always to some extent recuperated ‘ popular ’ ( largely oral ) culture and the new forms of standardized and increasingly centralized production and reproduction .
3 Individual goals may well be in conflict with organisational goals even where there is a strong commitment to one goal by the organisation .
4 The goals of the politician may well be in conflict with those of the official .
5 More recently , the problem of child sexual abuse has been highlighted , and here too difficulties for social workers in protecting the children may sometimes be in conflict with other interests .
6 redeploying some of their skills — over and above applying them in work with failing , disheartened or work-refusing children — for working with fellow professionals whose expectations may likewise be in conflict with those of the would-be supporter , just as those of work-refusing children tend to be in conflict with those of their teachers .
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