Sentence examples for contradictory commitments from inspiring English sources

This meant that on taking office, Truman had to deal with a tangle of contradictory commitments.

That may not come at the referendum but afterwards, with an SNP administration, whether independent or devolved, having to choose between its contradictory commitments both to low taxes and semi-Scandinavian state spending.

What followed was an online free-for-all -- as tender as it was intense -- that cut right to the soul of many Jews' struggle to square what seem like increasingly contradictory commitments: to Israel, to justice, to the alleviation of suffering, to the preservation of memory.

As such, they would be contradictory commitments: to judge organisms purely mechanistically and to judge them non-mechanistically.

Nelkin (2000) has questioned the coherence of dual standpoint theories on the basis of an argument for the claim that they entail commitments to contradictory beliefs about free will.

Stroppy, contradictory and terrified of commitment, Linda isn't immediately likeable, and the script makes few attempts to elicit our sympathy in the first few episodes.

"The president's presence in the Communist Party sky box is certainly contradictory to his so-called commitment to democracy in the Middle East or his emotional expression of concern over the genocide in Sudan," Mr. Rohrabacher wrote in a statement.

I am convinced that retributive justice and the commitment to reconciliation are not contradictory.

We summarized the contradictory statements made by AT&T about this commitment.

In the interview, Mr. Ballmer said his optimism about Microsoft's growth potential and his commitment to belt-tightening were not contradictory.

Research on the performance of casual employees has yielded contradictory results, with their performance influenced by job satisfaction and commitment, type and scope of task allocation, and access to training (18).