Backwater world, nasty little cultural conflict.

However tricky the task, administration officials seem to have decided their first order of business is to brace the public for a potentially nasty conflict in a highly volatile region.

That many Serbs would flee Kosovo was inevitable after such a bitter, personal and nasty conflict, which really began early in 1998.

The esoteric pursuit of measuring who makes the fastest computer chips has turned nasty, with accusations of pressure, conflict of interest and deception.

The Governor's largess could avoid some of the nasty conflicts that have produced the four latest budgets in state history the last four years.

On a continent torn by nasty conflicts, the war in Sudan has long stood out as particularly vicious.

It is essential that all parties remain in those negotiations and negotiate seriously until we have a satisfactory agreement and the end of this bitter and nasty conflict.

However, lets not forget that it was a nasty, vicious conflict in which many parties - Republican, Loyalist and the British state - acted reprehensibly at times.

Mercer, it turns out, supplied weapons to rebels and bandits all over Africa, and was himself a soldier in some of South Africa's nastier conflicts.

Besides, being the professor tricked up the game, gave you all these advantages, made for nasty conflicts of interest.