We all know that leaders face contradictory challenges.
WASHINGTON — When Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta travels across Asia next week, on an arc from Japan and China to New Zealand, he will face two almost contradictory challenges.
In combination, the economic realities brought about by globalization, and the sustainability goals set by the European Union, translate into contradictory challenges for European cultural landscapes.
Similarly, Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite who is one of Iraq's two Vice-Presidents, said, "Some people might see his flexibility as shifting from one principle to another, but it's the need to confront sometimes contradictory challenges — to survive".
The lengthy news conference with Aboul Gheit, filled with banter and cross talk by the two diplomats, underscored the daunting and at times contradictory challenge Rice faces as she tries to fashion an international response to Hamas's unexpected victory in Palestinian legislative elections.
As they seek to find a place in and/or confront the contemporary populist zeitgeist, feminists supporting intersectional justice-claims face very real, destabilising and contradictory challenges.
This rationale imposes a contradictory challenge to optimize assay specificity (minimize false positive results) and sensitivity (minimize false negative results).
It is possible that additional or contradictory challenges would be stressed among stakeholders further down in the health system, and further studies are needed to explore such views to be able to provide a more comprehensive picture of the capacity of the health system.
The first poet often gave obscure or contradictory details, challenging the second to complete the poem intelligibly and inventively.
Made up of frequently challenging, occasionally contradictory installations, the group exhibition has an ambitious goal: to inspire a "mind-shift" – a re-evaluation of our relationship to the planet and our fellow inhabitants.
