1.  In this mode of organising an essay, you divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting positions, or points of view, or sides of an argument.

2.  ARGUMENTATIVE If so, what are the main conflicting positions or theories you are evaluating?

3.  For all the cordiality of the first session, the opening statements restated the sharply conflicting positions that the sides have long maintained.

4.  Rashad never sees the danger in such an arrangement, but the vastly more credible Berman should not be in such a conflicting position.

5.  The letter created enormous confusion among state officials wondering how to deal with conflicting positions.

6.  Within the dominant Peronist party, two conflicting positions on how to proceed seem to have emerged.

7.  But all sides are declaring conflicting bargaining positions, including a Serb demand for the right to secede.

8.  Negotiations deadlocked over the conflicting positions for several days, while groups of people began emerging from the church, describing conditions of shortages of food and other hardships.

9.  On the eve of the parley in the Belgian capital, the two sides clung to their conflicting positions and prospects for a settlement looked dim.

10.  U.N. diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledge it will take months of intricate negotiations to sort out the conflicting positions.