This is the paradox of the 1930 s.

What is the cause of this seeming paradox? Is there any hope?

The African Paradox

The Asian Paradox

The Green Paradox

The Islamic Democratic Paradox

Herein lies the great paradox.

This is the paradox of Israel s existence a sense of power combined with an ever present apocalyptic fear of annihilation, reflected in its hostile reaction to any initiative that touches its physical security.

Paradoxically as it seems, it is the symbiosis of their works that make up a complete operating system known as GNU Linux, or just Linux.

Therein lies the paradox the criteria are unworkable.

As an anonymous American woman, justifying her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery, put it, All we have in life is ourselves, and what we can put out there every day for the world to see Me is all I got.

There is no shortage of examples.

Now, in this paradox between love and desire, what seems to be so puzzling is that the very ingredients that nurture love mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

But the irony is, of course, that Angela can do this because she's the one person who you know would never, ever, ever break any rules of Wikipedia.

The paradox of the Irish position is that opinion polls continue to demonstrate strong popular attachment to the EU.

So you've got this massive mismatch everyone knows that if they share they're going to get HIV, but they're all sharing anyway.

Nevertheless, there is something paradoxical about this.

But the paradox is more apparent than real.

The result of credit compulsion was rather paradoxical.

The irony, however, is that withdrawal might lead the West into a new, far more dangerous regional war as Iran proceeds toward its goal of developing nuclear weapons.

Why this paradox? A vote that meant saying no to the Constitutional Treaty in 2005 now means saying no to the leaders of the French left and right.

Yet a long succession of presidents failed to solve the paradox.

Most ironic is the self fulfilling critique that many activists now use.

But the paradox is that today s reserves are not real wealth that can be pumped back into the domestic economy. Instead, China s reserves mostly underwrite America s debt.

However, the great paradox of today's world is that, while it has brought people closer and created vast networks of connectivity and interdependence, it has also spawned divisions and frictions among and within societies.

And yet, the painful paradox we face is that it seems obvious that, over the years, there has been a continuous erosion of the authority and prestige of the United Nations and a sustained drift towards its marginalization in terms of playing its rightful role, as so clearly defined in the United Nations Charter.

In the end, growth would indeed suffer, ironically proving Reinhart and Rogoff right.

The paradox is that this has been good for holding the line on protectionism.

The fact that Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has emerged as Assange s foremost ally is profoundly ironic.

But it is from the fight against terrorism that a country with very few natural resources draws its lifeblood.

This is paradoxical, because the ECB s policy framework provides clear guidance.

What's more, it is paradoxical that it is precisely the charitable sector which is not meeting standards with respect to its own workers.

These observations solved the mass paradox and set the stage for the new caloric theory of combustion.

For many Filipinos, there is more than enough poetry in this fact, and certainly more irony than Estrada s action comedy movies of the 1960 s ever mustered.

As I strolled through Tiananmen Square, the paradox that struck me was that the very system of democratic capitalism that the West has so ardently believed in and advocated now seems to be failing us.

Ten years later, we may be witnessing yet another ironic outcome in the region At least for the time being, Israel seems to be the only clear winner of the Arab Spring revolutions.

Voters there may also extend a disturbing paradox that has emerged in the region the more vigorous Asian democracy becomes, the more dysfunctional it is.

The greatest irony in global health is that the poorest countries carry the largest disease burden.

There is probably some slight truth and also a certain degree of irony to this argument.

The irony is not lost among netizens, who raised the alarm after her arrest on social media platforms.

Paradoxically, then, what the British, with their opposition to deepening European integration, are really offering the Turks is precisely the sort of privileged partnership that Austria, together with Angela Merkel, has been backing.

It also leads, paradoxically, to a greater number of civilian deaths.

PARIS The central paradox of French politics was confirmed once again on March 27.

The paradox was to figure out how dolphins can obtain such high speeds and accelerations with what appears to be a small muscle mass.

The paradox of water is that it sustains life but can also cause death when it becomes a carrier of deadly microbes or takes the form of a tsunami, flash flood, storm, or hurricane.