battle
conflict fight engagement | a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war, Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga, he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement |
conflict
struggle battle | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals), the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine, police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs |
racism
racialism
racial discrimination | discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race |
| racial profiling | a form of racism consisting of the (alleged) policy of policemen who stop and search vehicles driven by persons belonging to particular racial groups |
genocide
race murder
racial extermination | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
| conflict | an incompatibility of dates or events, he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings |
dispute
difference
difference of opinion
conflict | a disagreement or argument about something important, he had a dispute with his wife, there were irreconcilable differences, the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats |
| conflict | opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings, he was immobilized by conflict and indecision |
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE | an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in to work for racial equality |
| racial segregation | segregation by race |
| conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot), this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing |
| conflict of interest | a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests |
| conflict | a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests, his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post, a conflict of loyalties |
| racial immunity | natural immunity shared by all members of a particular race |
conflict b run afoul b infringe
contravene | go against, as of rules and laws, He ran afoul of the law, This behavior conflicts with our rules |
| conflict | be in conflict, The two proposals conflict! |
| racial | of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups, racial differences, racial discrimination |
| racial | of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people, racial groups |