Sentence examples for this paradoxical situation from inspiring English sources

The coalition government's response to this paradoxical situation is breezy condescension masked as hard-headed practicality.

This paradoxical situation was resolved - or, perhaps, doubly complicated - when Jean joined him under the Dôme in 1946.

But we then get into this paradoxical situation: many of the groups arguing against repression in those societies are fundamentalists and anti-American.

"You have this paradoxical situation where you've got cannabis clients who are the experts and treatment workers who are the novices," Ian.

This paradoxical situation is fueling divisions in Lisbon before a June 5 general election that was itself called because of a parliamentary standoff over how to clean up the public finances.

Medical professionals have handled this paradoxical situation — finding a dead body with live organs — by fashioning a category of people with beating hearts who are said to be brain-dead, usually after a traumatic head injury, and who are considered just as dead as if they had rigor mortis.

This explains the paradoxical situation where the Treasury seems to have no pay gap among its senior civil servants, but actually has no women at a very senior level.

This could lead to the paradoxical situation of a symptom (minor depression, for example) being classified as being below the threshold for the diagnosis of a disease, but nevertheless still being regarded as a problem leaving the individual so diagnosed in a weird medical limbo.The chairmen of two previous DSM task forces have been particularly critical of the present effort.

Yet against this backdrop of increases in revenue and investment, we also find ourselves in the paradoxical situation of facing increasing vaccine shortages - and often inadequate systems to deliver the ones we have.

His is the paradoxical situation of being a celebrated artist of forgotten people, which is a starting point for much of the carping.

Since the beginning of the Republic, presidents have struggled with the paradoxical situation of being the first among equals, wary of sacrificing their dignity to show humility and of sacrificing the common touch to demonstrate their authority.