Sentence examples for contradictory move from inspiring English sources

In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

And last year's elevation of Nayef to the crown-prince-in-waiting job was seen as a contradictory move by the king, pre-empting the body he himself had recently created.

This shock to immigrant sensibilities is selective; it applies mainly to families from Mediterranean countries outside the European Union, including Turkey, the home country of Germany's largest minority by far.Make yourself at homeAt the same time, a seemingly contradictory move is afoot.

And then, in what was a totally contradictory move, Yahoo shut down the forum discussions about the political controversy, cutting off further political discourse about the image.

What the otherwise contradictory moves have in common is that they reflect aspects, at least, of reality.

But in one of a flurry of contradictory moves, Israel's defence minister also warned that the army was preparing to expand ground operations in the coastal enclave, where the offensive has already claimed almost 900 Palestinian lives, three-quarters of them civilians.

Barak has made many unsettling and contradictory moves in recent months: he alienated his own supporters even more than he alienated his opponents; he told the Palestinians he would not negotiate in an atmosphere of violence, and then did so; he did not take into sufficient account the mystical attachment many Jews feel toward the Temple Mount.

And it sets the government on the seemingly contradictory path of moving against political Islamists at home, while supporting movements like Hamas and Hezbollah abroad.

The solo, filled with sudden stops and starts and unexpected shifts of position, created the impression that Ms. Madden's mind and body were telling her to move in contradictory ways.

We seem to have two unattractive options, treat all such sentences as logically contradictory or limit the move to those with normative content.

Cellphones are moving in contradictory directions.