The health discussions of the 1960s were marked by contradictory tendencies: in one sense, by the very antithesis of permissiveness; in the other, by a new style of "coercive permissiveness" in health.
That has made Mr. Obama's record on climate curiously contradictory, marked by historic achievements abroad and frustrating setbacks at home.
On the contrary, his notoriously paradoxical nature defined this year's fair, which was marked by the contradictory pursuits of social consciousness and unrestrained luxury.
The crisis, which has grown since the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 crippled the plant, has been marked by often contradictory news reports and updates from social media sites about the actual levels of danger and the amount of radiation that has leaked from the site in northeastern Japan.
Over all, the Times poll offers a portrait of a long-term relationship between mayor and city that remains deeply conflicted and contradictory, marked by almost loveless admiration and an unmistakable yearning for change as Mr. Bloomberg's third and final term winds to a close.
They suggested that the trial, expected to last two months, will be marked by a stream of contradictory evidence on many issues, from Mr. Williams's attitude toward Mr. Christofi the night of the shooting to details about how Mr. Williams, a former star for the New Jersey Nets, handled the gun before it discharged.
However, in conversations with people who contacted us because they couldn't get FiOS in areas that have been marked 'completed', we now believe that the contradictory data reveals massive holes in deployment and holes in Verizon's story.
We included all projections whose direction classification had been marked as unreliable, due to insufficient or contradictory data (Hilgetag et al. 2000b, their Fig. 4), into the laminar categories that were indicated for them.
Another set of contradictory chromatin marks includes the bivalent promoters that have both H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 [31].
What marked her out as an actor was, like everything about Gillian, contradictory: she was, on the one hand, a powerful dramatic actor; on the other, she had a natural facility for high comedy.
