Atherogenics ended up announcing two contradictory analyses simultaneously, drawing scorn from many on Wall Street.
In recent years, though, it has failed to result in strong industry-wide returns, for two contradictory reasons.
Before getting into that, I am struggling to hold two contradictory ideas about the economy in my mind.
Broadly, there were two contradictory trends in Anglo-American corporate culture during the 1990s.
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The reason why clouds matter so much to the climate, and their role is so tricky to determine, is because they play two contradictory roles.
In contrast, if Congress allowed the federal government to hit the debt ceiling, it would effectively be telling the government, by law, to do two contradictory things.
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If you're in the people-selection business-in, say, a personnel or college admissions department-your job assignment can trigger a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, that being the mental disarray that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory positions.
For he has, in effect, campaigned with two contradictory messages: a pledge to keep to France's commitment to bring down the budget deficit to 3% next year (and to eliminate it by 2017), and a promise to increase benefits and fight austerity in Europe.
Then she tightens her lips and moistens them, her head sending two contradictory messages: the one advising that she remain wary, the other declining, as per her mother's suggestion, to put all her trust in Zaak, because he has firsthand knowledge of how things are likely to pan out.
So how might these two apparently contradictory elements form some tangible paradox machine?
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This belief rests on two (contradictory) pillars: first, that parasites adapted to pigs would have a hard time adapting to humans, and, second, that because pigs and people have lived together for so long, any parasites likely to switch have already done so.
Now, in the press's mind and in some of the public's mind, these two cases are contradictory.
Research suggests two different and somewhat contradictory answers.
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As if to show that he cares, Malaysia's prime minister, Mahathir Mohamed, now has two finance ministers each backing contradictory policies.
The campaign sends contradictory messages, respectively, to two important audiences.
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Those contradictory fears can only be dealt with if the two communities find a way through together.
Specifically, John and two colleagues from Carnegie Mellon set out to study a common contradictory attitude toward Internet privacy.
Before the disappearance, the family left "rambling and contradictory" messages, saying they were taking their two younger children out of school because they were emigrating to Australia.
There had been criticism that both the health and justice offices had given contradictory evidence on what happened during the trial of two brothers who had returned to the County Fermanagh village after facing allegations of decades of abusing children.
Having said that, and it does sound contradictory, our medal prospects have improved slightly in the last two weeks.
NATO's admission on April 19th, after a bundle of contradictory statements, that its aircraft had fired on convoys of refugees in two separate incidents in western Kosovo five days earlier.
They digitally clone themselves to create a picture where two or more sets of twins dressed in designer clothes, traditional Muslims garb or military uniforms act out contradictory and stereotypical behaviours.
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