This self-contradictory policy was sapping morale. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
He is an obscure writer, and often self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Their rationale was self-contradictory and unpersuasive. From Wordnik.com. [FDA's Risk Aversion Is Endangering Children] Reference
More self-contradictory flailing from the McCain campaign. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Ad Hits Obama For Not Picking Hillary As Veep] Reference
An American - an oxymoron is a self-contradictory statement. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The supposition is clearly self-contradictory and impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
But sustainable development does not become self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference
Your position, unsurprisingly, is self-contradictory and absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Responds To FISA Group On His Web Site] Reference
"Nothing," said Ranji in a slow, deliberately self-contradictory manner. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
When pressed further on what exactly a self-contradictory sentence means. From Wordnik.com. [Here's A Transcript Of Hillary's Full No-Nukes Exchange] Reference
It is most absurd and self-contradictory in professed testimony bearers for. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
The self-contradictory tendency in man, may have an evolutionary explanation. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In other words, it must be internally self-contradictory in order to be true. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Lurie: The Promise of Uncertainty] Reference
The other part of their reason is no less ridiculous and self-contradictory, viz. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
It is, if you've tried to trace its ideas, a hopelessly self-contradictory program. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Dick Armey Has a New Book. It's More Like His Legal Defense.] Reference
Their message on Ayers is muddled, confused, and self-contradictory -- all over the map. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign's Muddled, Self-Contradictory Message On Ayers] Reference
And of course, he strikes at the self-contradictory contortions of the Hillary campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Clinton's Attacks: "Shame On Her"] Reference
Or to put it another way, being Human does not in itself entail being self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Portraying John Kerry as a bumbling, pompous, self-contradictory fool was a GOOD critique. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Ad: "Maybe The Applause Has Gone To His Head"] Reference
Then there is no room left for the uncalled for and self-contradictory remark of Sir W. Muir, that at. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Madge's mother, about whose unknown personality there began to cluster some self-contradictory ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
This is because a conceptualization of something that cannot be put into concepts is self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations] Reference
The version he gives of this line is most ridiculous, containing as it does a self-contradictory assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
"Scientific creationism" is a self-contradictory, nonsense phrase precisely because it cannot be falsified. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Furthermore, what had already become static would later have become nonstatic, (which is self-contradictory). From Wordnik.com. [Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 9 - 12] Reference
In your mind, something seemingly self-contradictory is the same as "someting that by its nature cannot exist". From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
This is what Marx means when he says that every such measure is "self-contradictory and must be such of necessity.". From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
I am surprised that a former secretary of the Treasury isn't too embarrassed to make such a self-contradictory statement. From Wordnik.com. [How Does Confiscation Encourage Wealth Creation?] Reference
I don't think the data support it, but the idea of a self-correcting, ever-stable climate system is not self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Apple Fools' Day Again] Reference
Let them be assured of this, that whether the doctrine be true or false, it is not necessarily a doctrine self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Therefore growth will become unsustainable eventually and the term “sustainable growth” would then be self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference
This happens when a man obstinately refuses to acknowledge plain truths, and persists in maintaining what is self-contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
“If some of his answers seem imprecise and apparently self-contradictory, I believe it is because he has nothing to hide …”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
Rather, they should listen to what the majority has to say about it, as muddled and self-contradictory as its opinions often seem. From Wordnik.com. [Dem Victory Vindication For Those Who Pushed For Fearless National Security Counterattacks] Reference
One can usually make an intelligent person see sense in the end, or at least persuade him to retract self-contradictory statements. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
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