For the last 10 days, Mr. McCain's always improvisational campaign has lurched in contradictory fashion from tactic to tactic, trying to find a way to victory.
They had different and contradictory motives and tactics, but their repudiation of war challenged the idea that man's imperfections, and reason's limits, made war acceptable.
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New Labour loved this tactic of saying contradictory things to different audiences ("tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" was the classic example).
It's a highly effective suppression tactic but is certainly contradictory to the Academy Honor Code, "We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does".
The typical signposts – the tactics employed and the targets attacked – offer contradictory evidence and point to the increasing complexity of the threat from jihadist violence.
Whether their self-branded "sextremist" tactics are progressive and radical or self-exploitative and contradictory is one debate.
As a result of these contradictory mandates from Washington, the rules of engagement at Abu Ghraib became muddy, and the tactics grew increasingly ad hoc.
Russian reports were contradictory.
"There is contradictory information.
