Sentence examples for contradictory practices from inspiring English sources
These seemingly contradictory practices reflect the modus operandi in the last several decades of China's globalization.
Their collected responses are a bit of a mishmash, as the interviewees describe apparently contradictory practices.
One objective of the center would be to illuminate "the nation's seemingly contradictory practices of ethnic exclusion, discrimination, pluralism, assimilation and tolerance," the report says.
In this spirit, his innovations included the contradictory practices of painting flatness-inducing letters and words, and depth-creating trompe l'oeil nails and other details (with shadows) that so confound Cubist space.
"Our society is a veritable crazy quilt of contradictory practices and beliefs," Komarovsky wrote, about gender roles, in 1953, and, as the revisionists have demonstrated, if you pick out the right data you can identify trends in the direction of gender equality in the nineteen-fifties.
This theoretical framework explains the contradictory practices of executives where they are at once tough on borders but also immersed heavily in human rights protection talk.
Although he owned slaves himself, Jay had an explanation for this seemingly contradictory practice: "I purchase slaves and manumit them at proper ages and when their faithful services shall have afforded a reasonable retribution".
Although he owned slaves himself, Jay had an explanation for this seemingly contradictory practice: I purchase slaves and manumit them at proper ages and when their faithful services shall have afforded a reasonable retribution. His attitude toward slavery in New York followed the same gradualist line (see John Jay to Egbert Benson, 9/18/1780, Jay ID #1713).
And, in a seemingly contradictory practice, we mine the depths of our polluted oceans for food.
That perception is reinforced by Iran's progressive but apparently contradictory practice of offering some drug users access to harm-reduction methods.
This experience caused those in the ACO to question government integrity for having rhetoric and policies espousing support for local Aboriginal-led solutions while enacting a seemingly contradictory practice.
