Sentence examples for contradictory principle from inspiring English sources

But this contradictory principle has long been invoked by teachers who raise their voices to silence classrooms of noisy youngsters.

Like the Beats, the Tea Partiers are driven by that maddeningly contradictory principle, subject to countless interpretations, at the heart of all American protest movements: individual freedom.

What Einstein did was to accept both apparently contradictory principles.

How could one political creed legitimately embrace both contradictory principles?

Shrouds of secrecy remove the opportunity of effectively testing contradictory principles and claims.

Ayatollah Khomeini built on two different and often contradictory principles, one of public accountability and one of religious authority.

But they take for granted the appeal of ever upward mobility, ever more wealth, and the contradictory principles guiding their choices are largely unexamined.

If all of that sounds a little abstract and theoretical, then a quick glance at government policy is enough to show that these contradictory principles underpin many of the most significant developments of recent years.

An expert in corporate law says that unless the parties settle their dispute, the Delaware Chancery Court may be forced to confront the inherently contradictory principles of the state's incorporation laws.

For example, Llewellyn demonstrated that U.S. courts had endorsed both of two contradictory principles of statutory construction, namely: "A statute cannot go beyond its text" and "To effect its purpose, a statute may be implemented beyond its text".

Readers are getting sick of it, but it's hard to tell whether our shared outrage is channelling into useful new standards for writers and publishers, or rather if the world of publishing isn't simply working itself up into such a dizzy froth of contradictory principles that nobody knows who or what to believe anymore.