conflictive

Updated: May 20, 2025

This conflictive situation evolved presently industrial complications and disturbances of the gravest national importance. Following the treaty of Ghent, the South fell into financial difficulties, and experienced quite generally an increasing pressure of hard times.

Archibald Henry Grimké - Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12

But there can be no life-manifestation without organic structure. The reverse of this proposition is also true. Which, therefore, precedes the other as a cause, and which follows as an effect? Nothing can organize itself. To do so, it must contain within itself both the operating cause and the resulting effect, which is at once an incongruent and conflictive judgment.

Horatius Flaccus - Life: Its True Genesis