This results in simultaneous implementation with different and conflicting rules in neighbouring areas.

Under current law, he said, property owners sometimes face vague or even conflicting rules on removing chemical contamination.

Before taking his current job, he spent four years as the European Union's commissioner in charge of harmonizing the various countries' conflicting rules.

"The very essence of judicial duty" according to Marshall was to determine which of the two conflicting rules should govern.

Knowledge acquisition tools, similar to those provided by Teiresias were developed to find and help modify the conflicting rules.

This commonly results in complex, often conflicting rules and conventions of mixing languages in type.

Many news corespondents covering the war with Iraq are bridling under a system of conflicting rules and confusing censorship.

Faced with conflicting rules, a lawyer practicing in Manhattan must feel at sea about whether it is ethical to secretly tape a conversation.

In Europe today, we actually have conflicting rules on product placement.

And odd, conflicting rules determine which agency has authority.