Sentence examples for contradictory measures from inspiring English sources

The term "contradictory measures" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to two or more measures that oppose or conflict with each other. For example, you could say, "The company implemented contradictory measures that made it difficult to increase output."

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What's an investor to do, with so many contradictory measures?

The coach Robin Dutt set out to "improve upon" last season's second‑placed finish but lost the dressing room amid a flurry of contradictory measures and plain silly directives ("no more chocolate bars at breakfast").

On one measure that the industry had strongly supported — a proposal to provide aid to vessel owners who decommission their boats — legislators actually approved contradictory measures, Mr. Garat said, simultaneously approving continued scrapping while denying the necessary funds.

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Thus not only are IFCs to be judged on the accuracy of their forecasts but the potentially contradictory measure of IFC's capacity and record for initiating necessary changes.

But there is a barrage of contradictory, centralising measures.

Congress still has plenty of work to do in September to blend competing, sometimes contradictory health measures, but lawmakers have found a good deal of common ground on proposals that would profoundly change the health system.

Subculture is dependent on the acceptance and patronage of the bourgeoisie, which in contradictory equal measures -- drains its vitality.

It's tempting but in the end pointless to try to find a consistent voter philosophy among the confusing and often contradictory ballot measures.

The difference in the absolute predicted and observed reduction is likely the result of the accumulated uncertainties when estimating the extent to which model parameters need to be changed in the mutants based on incomplete or contradictory experimental measures.

Additional research is needed to determine whether economic and social valuation approaches provide complementary, contradictory, or redundant measures of the importance of landscapes for providing ecosystem services.

But it's impossible (meaningless, contradictory signs) to measure how much someone is afflicted.

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