Mr. Sales said in court that he had acted alone and in self-defense, contradicting previous testimony in which he said he had used Mr. Moura's gun, said Gloria Lima, a court spokeswoman.
Whether postulating on television, books, movies or political matters, she self-questions, self-contradicts and breaks her own rules directly after setting them.
The same people were saying not-nice things about this writer long before her death in 2004 at 71, about how she was a prima donna and a holier-than-thou moral scold, a limousine liberal turned cultural conservative; a snob; an opportunist; a serial self-contradicter.
Their dedication to education and self-improvement contradicted claims that they lowered moral standards.
Comte also was responsible for the battle cry "all is relative", but immediately and no doubt self-consciously contradicted himself by adding "and that's the only absolute".
Naturally, being rational requires not contradicting oneself, but there is no self-contradiction in the maxim "I will make lying promises when it achieves something I want".
The negative correlation between Action and self-efficacy, while the Maintenance trait was positively associated with self-efficacy could contradict this conclusion.
Tsakalotos charged that the IMF was advocating policies that were bound to increase inequality and social exclusion – contradicting its own self-avowed goal of inclusive growth.
And matters are not helped by Told By an Idiot's style of physical grotesquerie which compounds the play's self-conscious surreality instead of contradicting it.
