In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
This shock to immigrant sensibilities is selective; it applies mainly to families from Mediterranean countries outside the European Union, including Turkey, the home country of Germany's largest minority by far.Make yourself at homeAt the same time, a seemingly contradictory move is afoot.
And then, in what was a totally contradictory move, Yahoo shut down the forum discussions about the political controversy, cutting off further political discourse about the image.
But in one of a flurry of contradictory moves, Israel's defence minister also warned that the army was preparing to expand ground operations in the coastal enclave, where the offensive has already claimed almost 900 Palestinian lives, three-quarters of them civilians.
Orville Schell, the head of the Centre on US-China Relations at New York's Asia Society, said Trump's latest comments – which the academic described as an "incredible provocation" – were the latest example of the billionaire's contradictory moves towards China.
What the otherwise contradictory moves have in common is that they reflect aspects, at least, of reality.
Mr. Romney is on target in citing Mr. Obama's bungled diplomacy in the Middle East and contradictory moves in Afghanistan, where he has undermined his own troop surge with publicly announced withdrawal timetables.
Barak has made many unsettling and contradictory moves in recent months: he alienated his own supporters even more than he alienated his opponents; he told the Palestinians he would not negotiate in an atmosphere of violence, and then did so; he did not take into sufficient account the mystical attachment many Jews feel toward the Temple Mount.
AFTER more than six years of inconclusive warfare in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union appears to have adopted a contradictory strategy: seeming to move toward a diplomatic solution while simultaneously deepening its involvement in the country.
Here is a contradictory situation.
