"contradictory changes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when there has been a series of changes to something that conflict or contradict each other. For example, "This organization has experienced contradictory changes to its company policies over the past few years."
Yet, the changed proportions show that decisive and seemingly contradictory changes occurred in a few years.
Mr. Grübel said the problem stemmed from the unit's having gone through two contradictory changes in focus in the last year.
Those who remain are excoriated by Michael Gove and Eric Pickles as "bureaucrats" – language hardly likely to get them out of bed in the morning raving with enthusiasm to implement Gove's complex and contradictory changes.
It speaks to other historical geographies about the state, citizens, and the urban environment by showing how medical entomology prescribed contradictory changes to civic and domestic space, and how urban people and nature resisted these changes.
The question whether these contradictory changes are contraries or not makes no difference, provided only it is impossible for them both to be present to the same thing at the same time: the point is of no importance to the argument.
The contradictory changes of E-cadherin mRNA (up-regulated) and protein (down-regulated) were further investigated by quantitative analysis.
But where's real transparency amid so much contradictory change?
Arrows (b1, b2) also show the catalytic effect that a dialectic relationship stresses, with respect to strategic HR activities that emerge in case of contradictory change dynamics in interrelated areas of functional domain.
When we combined these 3 data sets, the direction of gene response was inverted for the experiment with Nanog over-expression to make it compatible with other data, and genes showing contradictory change were ignored.
The literature is contradictory regarding changes in gait and balance when using these sophisticated devices.
It can also, however, be complacent and contradictory, identifying changes that need to be made but neglecting to apply them to itself.
