conflict with

conflict with (something)

To interfere or clash with something. Wait, no, I can't meet with you at 3:00—that conflicts with a conference call I have. I cannot support you in this action, sir, as it conflicts with my religious beliefs.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

conflict with something

to clash with something. (Does not refer to fighting.) This date conflicts with my doctor's appointment. As far as I can tell, the date you suggest does not conflict with anything.
See also: conflict
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • conflict with (something)
  • let be
  • Let it be
  • let it/(one) be
  • tamper
  • tamper with
  • tamper with (something)
  • leave (someone or something) be
  • leave it be
  • give (one) enough rope
References in periodicals archive
Role conflict can be managed by providing career guidance and also facilitating employees to align individual' personality types in relation to their careers in future so that they practiced least conflict with their external world and perform effectively at work and increase their productivity in health department.
It does not have any water conflict with China but India's water strategists have started "projecting" such conflicts with China so as to play "victim." On the other hand, despite being upper riparian, Nepal, a smaller nation, feels being aggrieved by India.
Models have been studied in relation to the work and family conflict with change in social and demographic trends with time (Kopelman Greenhaus and Connolly 1983; Bedeian Burke and Moffett 1988).
Conflict exists on a continuum from mild disagreements or diverse opinions with little volatility to extremely destructive, dysfunctional conflict with intense, excessive volatility.
The WTO round aims to give preference to the trade agendas of developing countries which conflicts with COOL OMC needs to address the impact the environmental policy in conflict with trade, such as the case of tuna and dolphin case resulting from the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Yemen and Turkey were again added to the map, both having been included in past Armed Conflicts Reports--Yemen for its 1994 civil war and Turkey for the 1984-2002 phase of the conflict with Kurdish rebels.
But such an interpretation cannot possibly be correct, because it comes in conflict with the living example of Christ himself.
The media coverage during the conflict with Iraq, however, was not safeguarded by the Pentagon, and as a result Americans were inundated with graphic scenes of a war-torn country.
With case studies embedded, other chapters cover methods of conflict within the academic environment and the role of leadership in shaping policy and procedures for handling conflict with respect to the culture, history, procedures, and practices of the institution.
Overall, subjects reported positive attitudes about conflict with almost ninety percent indicating that they viewed conflict as an opportunity to solve problems and bring about change.
My interest in spending time with my children may conflict with my interest in writing this paper, but this does not constitute a conflict of interest, for I am not required to exercise judgment on another person's behalf.
The practitioner should also evaluate the potential litigation risk related to performing services for parties with actual conflicts, and review the conflict with his or her insurance carrier.
"We had multiple agencies with jurisdictional requirements and missions that were sometimes in direct conflict with those of other agencies," she says.
The Conflict Tactics Scale measures the actions one might take in conflict with another family member; and in this study, the scores represented the number of times the action was reported to have occurred over the past six months.