Sentence examples for when contradictory from inspiring English sources

I find it energizing when contradictory worlds come into close proximity, because it forces us to consider the choices we've made — or haven't made but defaulted to — and the contingency of our lives.

At some point, when contradictory information is relayed, one would expect the commander to stop and ask for more details before granting the authority to demolish a building in a crowded area.

And when contradictory verdicts are handed down, lawyers and legal scholars say, the discrepancy points to an uncomfortable reality: jurors sometimes follow their hearts as much as the law.

In several of the cases that were based on Deputy Pikett's dogs, however, the scent lineups appear to have provided the primary evidence, even when contradictory evidence was readily available.

In Hegel's dialectic, when contradictory positions are reconciled in a higher unity (synthesis) they are both annulled and preserved (aufgehoben).

The frustration generated when contradictory worldviews collide is plain to see in their accounts.

Stoic (or at least Chrysippean) conditionals are true when the contradictory of the consequent is incompatible with its antecedent (D. L. 7.73).

However, when facing contradictory evidence on the relationship between unemployment and health behaviours, it would be precipitous to conclude that differences are due simply to a better or worse adjustment for the effects of selection.

More seriously, anti-Americanism can be contradictory: when the US failed to intervene in Bosnia, that was considered wrong, but when it did subsequently intervene in Kosovo, that was wrong, too.

It seemed contradictory when they both acknowledged they were afraid of the show.

It is literally impossible for a system to satisfy all of these needs simultaneously when they are contradictory.