Sentence examples for contradictory aim from inspiring English sources

Yet the capitalist economy, for all its labor-sweating, had introduced a contradictory aim.

Every string quartet sets out with the intrinsically contradictory aim..

The unresolved feud has contributed to the White House's uneven approach to its trade negotiations with China in recent days, as White House officials have given different, at times contradictory descriptions about the discussions' aims and what is and what isn't up for debate.

These contradictory aims sowed the seeds for the current impasse.

But the job is still far from complete.To make banking safer, regulators need to marry two seemingly contradictory aims.

That may explain why Baghdad is pursuing apparently contradictory aims, seeking to convince the world that it is committed to disarmament while simultaneously demonstrating its military prowess.

But despite apparently contradictory aims, there is a shared assumption by old-master and contemporary artists that food is more than a means to satisfy the pangs of bodily hunger.

As Rachael Maskell, the trade union Unite's national officer for health, said: "The problem with Monitor is that it will now promote choice, competition and collaboration – all of which are contradictory aims".

Mr. Alter argues that is how all canons become powerful influences, as "bustling junctions of contradictory aims and values, and not, as many of the new critics of the canon claim, vehicles for the enforcement of ideological conformity".

At MAC, the Canadian artist Charles Stankievech has assembled a bulging archive of materials that limn the contradictory aims of Fuller's dome, as indebted to American military ambitions as to "Spaceship Earth" environmentalism.

MONTHS in the preparation, Barack Obama's speech outlining plans for his second "surge" in American troops in Afghanistan (see article) was always going to struggle to reconcile its contradictory aims.