An egregious example of this contradiction occurred recently when someone associated with the Pentagon leaked a briefing paper branding Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States.
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. and its member unions have served up an excellent example of this contradiction over the last few weeks.
One example of the contradiction may be the candidates' relative silence on the good news from Libya and their attacks Friday on Mr. Obama's plan to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
Prospectuses tend to solve the conundrum by avoiding mention of the party's role.A more stomach-churning example of this contradiction was the discovery in 2008 by Sanlu, a dairy firm, that some of its products had been contaminated and were harming and killing children.
The starkest example of that contradiction occurred on the very day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before the US Congress, implying the need for military action against Iran.
Boise, Idaho's capital, is a particularly poignant example of the contradictions.
He might have also adduced his own American Museum, with its crude, fraudulent mermaids and stainless Jenny Linds, its midgets and its giantesses, as another example of the contradictions and extremes of the island.
"In a recent essay about moral relativism in The Times's philosophy series The Stone, Paul Boghossian cites a 2001 op-ed of mine as an example of the contradictions relativists fall into.
But the hospital, which officials said was one of only three in a state of 352,000 people, is also an example of the contradictions of Mr. Chávez's revolution: it took more than a decade to get it fully back in operation.
If the city's relentless burgeoning is currently the solidest possible example of the contradictions implicit in late capitalism, then it may well also be the case that – as Marx foresaw in The Communist Manifesto – "All that is solid melts into air".
