Sentence examples for contradictory principles from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teachers must be able to effectively handle many complex classroom situations that might not be comparable to previous cases and may require choosing among different, even contradictory, teaching principles (Fenstermacher 1994).

Self-organizing has been appreciated by architects and urban planners for its richness in the emerging global behaviors; however, design and self-organizing are contradictory in principle.

Selling concert tickets "is highly contradictory to the principles of Pussy Riot", said the letter signed with six nicknames: Cat, Garadzha, Fara, Shayba, Serafima and Shumakher.