Sentence examples for incompatible directions from inspiring English sources

"Public opinion in Ireland and Greece on the one hand, and Germany and Netherlands on the other, is going in incompatible directions," Mr. Grant said.

His dual critique of philosophical and religious idealism on the one hand, and popular inanity on the other leads him in quite incompatible directions.

During a debate on company law reform so tedious that I was reduced to comparing socks with my colleague Ed Davey, it suddenly became clear that the Tories for once had avoided agreeing with Labour by the odd device of opposing the government from two incompatible directions.

Assuming the foregoing claims about belief and desire are true, as they surely are, so the argument goes, at least some versions of anti-Humeanism would require what is incoherent, namely, mental states with incompatible directions of fit: mental states that could be at once representational in the way that beliefs are and motivational in the way that desires are.

The central stimuli were flanked by two vertically adjacent arrowheads which pointed in the same (compatible) or opposite (incompatible) direction as the target.

However, it is possible that this remaining difference can be explained as an effect of some trials in which visual attention was covertly shifted into an incompatible direction relative to the manual response.

2 "I am able to enjoy life" was slightly modified for clinicians for testing purposes; item tested was "I am content with the quality of my life right now". 3 Not included due to redundancy with the other appetite item and incompatible direction of question phrasing (positive).

Thus, the experiment included 40 compatible (same direction for prime and target arrows), 40 incompatible (opposite direction), 40 neutral (non-arrow prime stimuli followed by target arrows), 40 primed no-response (arrow prime stimuli but no target arrow) and 40 neutral no-response trials (non-arrow prime stimuli and no target arrow) and also 40 null events (fixation cross).

The ACE task requires patients to respond to a cue by moving in a direction either compatible or incompatible with directional information implied in a sentence (e.g., "John was moving on after the breakup" = forward movement).

Indeed, the trend vectors derived from GSTA show directions incompatible with observations in the region around the spit (Fig. 12).

Again, the trend vectors derived from GSTA are incompatible with the directions of actual sediment transport (Figs. 5 and 12), which suggests the effectiveness of the P-GSTA method.