Sentence examples for guilty of inconsistency from inspiring English sources

Due to happenstance, Pierre ends up asserting both 'Londres est jolie' and 'London is not pretty'; the question is then whether the speaker is guilty of inconsistency.

Here we find a very different account of the basis of obligation: we are obliged to perform or avoid certain actions which are incompatible with our consciences, because we will be guilty of inconsistency if we don't.

However, his failures to do so are frequently more apparent than real: First, in many cases where he may seem to be guilty of inconsistency he really is not.

Ms. D'Amour, whose background is mostly in experimental theater, is occasionally guilty of overstatement or inconsistency.

He said MacAskill was guilty of a "glaring logical inconsistency" and "a cruel inconsistency" for refusing to allow Megrahi to go back to Libya under the prisoner transfer agreement and then freeing him on compassionate grounds.

Given the common person's inconsistencies, why does it seem that politicians are especially guilty of a particularly distasteful sort of inconsistency, hypocrisy, when they commit the very sins they loudly condemn?

So in his current stance he is guilty of hypocrisy, or at least inconsistency.The government's argument is, in essence, that the demands of justice should not make peace impossible.

Yet something seems amiss, for the person is guilty of ignorance, not of gross inconsistency.

In uttering them one would be guilty of semantic or pragmatic contradiction, inconsistency, or other error.

We did not think that winning elections gave Bush the right to repress all opposition, and anyone who thinks that Ahmadinejad's dubious triumph gives him a license for brutality is guilty of, to put it mildly, moral inconsistency.

Entrees met a similar fate of inconsistency.