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The notion that more firearms reduces the risks posed by more firearms is paradoxical to some and reassuring to others.

We should be focusing on the quality of our food rather than the calorie content on restaurant menus, and it is paradoxical to ban whole milk but allow sugar-sweetened fat-free milk, he writes.

It is paradoxical to say that a whacky creation of celluloid and the animator's craft can produce something quintessentially human but such is the case, down to Homer's dependence on Marge and their daughter Lisa for finding a realistic way out of the catastrophes threatened by his and his loyal son Bart's unquenchable ambitions.

However it is paradoxical to note that even though more people want to receive corrective feedback, more people also tend to avoid giving it.

Ecocritique does not think that it is paradoxical to say, in the name of ecology itself: 'down with nature!' " (ibid., 13).

It is paradoxical to observe a country blocking FARC access to the political arena now that they have taken the decision to abide by the rule of law and respect the current institutional setting".

Valentine's aim was paradoxical: to publish books that would be bought by people who "aren't book-buyers".

It may be paradoxical to note that "The Toe Tactic" and "Jellyfish" share a commitment to idiosyncrasy.

But if Bush's body language was weird, than his answers at times were paradoxical to a point they could have been crafted by Lewis Carroll.

"It would be paradoxical to go to a vote with an election system that all political forces regard as inadequate to guarantee government stability," he said.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, came to the opposite conclusion in 1997, upholding the state's ban on racial preferences in higher education and saying it "would be paradoxical" to rule otherwise.