'contradictory positions' is a valid phrase and is commonly used in written English.
For example: "The two sides of the argument had contradictory positions, making a resolution difficult to obtain."
How can such contradictory positions be reconciled?
Sometimes, polls find majorities favoring contradictory positions, so advocates can claim popular legitimacy for either stance.
Mr. de Hoop Scheffer put in the nicest terms NATO's contradictory positions toward Russia.
"Bono is adept at holding two contradictory positions in his own mind," she sighed.
(While contradictory friendships are characteristic of Talabani, contradictory positions distinguish Sadr).
He has struggled to resolve his multiple, contradictory positions on the Iraq war.
You might ask, how is it possible to take such mutually contradictory positions?
Rather, they regard the center as a jumping-off point for complicated and often contradictory positions.
Then again, even if he has, Bono is adept at holding two contradictory positions in his own mind.
The child of a Polish Catholic mother and a German Protestant father, he straddled contradictory positions all his life.
It is made up of five factions with somewhat contradictory positions on critical questions, including the Palestinian conflict.
