Christopher Alexander describes common design problems as arising from " conflicting forces " -- such as the conflict between wanting a room to be sunny and wanting it not to overheat on summer afternoons.

There are conflicting accounts of the design of the flag of the Saint Patrick's Battalion.

Many conflicting standards existed for the selection of wire sizes and other design rules for electrical installations.

It balances all the external views ' performance requirements, possibly conflicting, in attempt to optimize the overall database usage by all its end-uses according to the database goals and priorities.

* The United States Department of Defense approached Xerox to use Mesa for its " IronMan " programming language, but Xerox declined due to conflicting goals.

While, in principle, all fission reactors can act in all three capacities, in practice the tasks lead to conflicting engineering goals and most reactors have been built with only one of the above tasks in mind.

Research has focused on whether the gangs have formal structures, clear hierarchies and leadership in comparison with adult groups, and whether they are rational in pursuit of their goals, though positions on structures, hierarchies and defined roles are conflicting.

Industry standards are often rules of thumb, developed over many years, that offset many conflicting goals: what people will pay for, manufacturing cost, local climate, traditional building practices, and varying standards of comfort.

The Baron ( who again appears elderly after being " expelled from a state of bliss ", in his words ) struggles with the conflicting goals of heroism and a peaceful death, before deciding to escape by blowing " a modicum of snuff " out into the sea creature's cavernous interior, which causes the sea creature to " sneeze " the heroes out through its whale-like blowhole.

At the Congress of Vienna ( November 1814 – June 1815 ) the various nations had very different and conflicting goals.

Ultimately, the revolutions failed, in part because the various revolutionaries had conflicting goals.

Explicitly incorporated into the concept of a Xiaokang society is the idea that economic growth needs to be balanced with sometimes conflicting goals of social equality and environmental protection.

Within academia, diverse constituent groups have diverse, and sometimes conflicting, goals.

The conflicting goals of professional education programs and general education advocates currently are playing out in the negotiation over accreditation standards.

This meant that the Congress of Berlin was mainly a dispute among supposed allies with conflicting goals.

Each shares a set of both conflicting and coordinating goals.

For example, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin used the " hedgehogs " versus " foxes " approach ; a " hedgehog " might approach the world in terms of a single organizing principle ; a " fox " might pursue multiple conflicting goals simultaneously.

George's book presents an overview of the process and conflicting goals of crisis management as well as many examples.

To resolve these conflicting goals, Ada confines type-unsafety to a certain set of special constructs whose names usually begin with the string < tt > Unchecked_ </ tt >.

Jarvis and DeMar designed the game to instill panic in players by presenting them with conflicting goals and having on-screen projectiles coming from multiple directions.

Robotron: 2084s gameplay is based on presenting the player with conflicting goals: avoid enemy attacks to survive, defeat enemies to progress, and save the family to earn points.

The supporters of Carlota Joaquina intended her to head a constitutional monarchy, whereas she wanted to govern an absolute monarchy ; these conflicting goals undermined the project and caused it to fail.

Especially structural, strategic and procedural analysis build on rational actors, who are able to prioritize clear goals, are able to make trade-offs between conflicting values, are consistent in their behavioral pattern, and are able to take uncertainty into account.

Systems of scansion, and the assumptions ( often tacit or even subconscious ) that underlie them, are so numerous and contradictory that it is often difficult to tell whether differences in scansion indicate opposed metrical theories, conflicting understandings of a line's linguistic character, divergent practical goals, or whether they merely constitute a trivial argument over who has the " better ear " for verse.

Though he has conflicting goals and values, Fitch's gratitude towards Dalton results in blind obedience and he smothers his conscience to accomplish Dalton's bidding.

* Multiple conflicting goals-Government administration is often asked to meet conflicting goals.

In this tangle of conflicting claims, the patent-sharing scheme adopted by the A.L.A.M. at its founding proved to be the best device for avoiding or mitigating the burdens of incessant litigation.

* Requirements analysis – encompasses those tasks that go into determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

By his zeal and exertions – for there were many conflicting interests to reconcile – he adjusted the affair in a manner at once creditable to his judgment and fortunate for his country.

The prefrontal cortex is not the only candidate area, however: studies by Nikos Logothetis and his colleagues have shown, for example, that visually responsive neurons in parts of the temporal lobe reflect the visual perception in the situation when conflicting visual images are presented to different eyes ( i. e., bistable percepts during binocular rivalry ).

The Talmuds are notable for the way they combine law and lore, for their explication of the midrashic method of interpreting tests, and for their accounts of debates among rabbis, which preserve divergent and conflicting interpretations of the Bible and legal rulings.

Typically the internal layer is optimized for top performance, in an average way that takes into account performance requirements ( possibly conflicting ) of different external views according to their relative importance.

Plans for a brief tour with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to promote their 1987 collaboration Trio fell through, due to the three artists ' conflicting schedules, as well as Parton's prior commitment to her 1987-88 ABC TV series.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

In the United Kingdom, the pro-assisted dying group Dignity in Dying cite conflicting research on attitudes by doctors to assisted dying: with a 2009 Palliative Medicine-published survey showing 64 % support ( to 34 % oppose ) for assisted dying in cases where a patient has an incurable and painful disease, while 49 % of doctors in a study published in BMC Medical Ethics oppose changing the law on assisted dying to 39 % in favour.

In the United States, responsibilities for the administration of environmental laws are divided between numerous federal and state agencies with varying, overlapping and sometimes conflicting missions.

These “ rate-distortion ” models suggest that the genetic code originated as a result of the interplay of the three conflicting evolutionary forces: the needs for diverse amino-acids, for error-tolerance and for minimal cost of resources.

Intended as a prestige picture for Warner Bros. as well as a major commercial vehicle for Demme, it instead became a troubled production due to the conflicting visions of Demme and star Hawn.

They wrote: ' It is our hope that this case will lay the foundation upon which a set of policies and guidelines are built so that when cases of abuse, especially child abuse, are alleged, the programs in place will allow for appropriate questioning and investigation by the police, physicians and child psychologists so as to drastically reduce the chances of conflicting testimony and charges of contamination that can and will raise reasonable doubt.

There is conflicting information on Native American names for the lake.

Early tests at different laboratories returned conflicting dates for the body ; later tests suggested a date between 2 BC and 119 AD.