Sentence examples for contradictory for example from inspiring English sources

The select committee's objections were in part confused and contradictory: for example, simultaneously decrying accreditation proposals while demanding the cohesive continuing professional development framework that accreditation will help deliver.

Its definitions are numerous and often mutually contradictory, for example as a discrete portion of one's time or as a quality of experience irrespective of time.

Moreover, some reported abnormalities are contradictory, for example increased and decreased volumes of the anterior cingulate gyrus.

Because SMBG may produce a sense of disappointment when readings remain high, which can result in emotional distress, health care providers must educate patients on the reasons why SMBG readings may be inexplicable and contradictory; for example, weight gain, new medications or increase in medication dose, gastroparesis, illness or infection, may all influence blood sugar levels.

They believe this is because understanding sarcasm requires understanding contradictory statements, for example "don't work too hard" said to someone who is clearly resting.

A historian of war once theorised that in those cases, where the determination to maintain that your war was right and justified even in the face of the facts, you become a kind of expression of imperialism – as warped and contradictory as, for example, the Iraq war.

In certain circumstances, there will be contradictory demands, for example if the ionosphere has low density and a high degree of structure, such that potentially no volumetric imaging strategy will be able to adequately represent it.

The complex composition of propolis may explain, in part, why the same type of propolis presents apparently contradictory results, for example: green propolis has been found to have anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and immunostimulatory activities.

Complementarities happen where "certain semantic features or domains are construed in two contradictory ways"; for example concerning agency as in They'll dry, where experience is construed in two ways - transitively and ergatively ("the children will dry [the dishes]" vs. "the dishes will dry [in the sun]).

To make matters more interesting, the stories themselves have inconsistencies and ambiguities - contradictory genealogies, for example.

Twitty was also criticized for making what have been deemed to be inconsistent and contradictory statements (for example, as to whether there were operating security cameras at the Holiday Inn).