Sentence examples for paradoxical position on from inspiring English sources

The suspect is in a most paradoxical position: "On the one hand, the court's insistence that the subject's will remain free, uncoerced; on the other hand, all the efforts of police interrogators to break the will".

The drug agency has taken a seemingly paradoxical position, on the one hand saying there is no evidence of harm in humans, and on the other supporting industry actions to get BPA out of baby bottles and feeding cups, and to find alternative liners for food and formula cans.

The deal-making puts President Obama in the paradoxical position of investing vast sums in nuclear weapons even as he promises to put the world on a path to eliminating them.

The crowd at Disney found itself in the paradoxical position of shedding tears for a detached, contained, low-key guy.

But nearly a year after Mr. Mubarak's ouster, Ms. Ibrahim's story in many ways illustrates the paradoxical position of women in the new Egypt.

States have long been in the paradoxical position of being closer to the lives of voters than the federal government, while receiving far less scrutiny and attention.

This puts the Granta list in the paradoxical position of mattering more to writers when writers matter less to the culture.

Medicare is in the paradoxical position of having unsustainable growth and too-low fees to attract providers.

We are in the paradoxical position of having more overdose deaths come from prescription drugs than from street drugs.

President Bush's state visit to Britain this week highlights the paradoxical position Prime Minister Tony Blair has found himself in ever since the Iraq issue emerged on the international radar screen.

Historians consequently find themselves in a paradoxical position.