"The power of the office to influence and intimidate makes this an obvious conflict."

"Auditors face an obvious conflict from the moment they get paid by their clients," he said.

Presciently, they saw the plan as leaving workers to bargain with themselves, an obvious conflict.

"If you consider yourself a journalist, then it seems to me it's an obvious conflict of interest to take government dollars."

A law passed last year in Albany has eliminated some of the most obvious conflicts.

Booth was not involved in the case due to the obvious conflict of interest.

He was a nice boy, in fact, though his face mirrored an obvious internal conflict.

"I have an obvious conflict of interest," he noted yesterday.

An obvious conflict of interest but one which was known to investors.

Can there be a more obvious conflict of interest?