The contrasting realities of our world are quite real and apparent.

The third idea I want to share with you is that music, paradoxically,

When I returned to the somewhat contrasting atmosphere of Clapham,

The United Russia leaders are maneuvering between the president's contradictory remarks.

Going back to Zeno's journey, we can now see how how the paradox is resolved.

The problem with Obama s America is rooted in the contradictory nature of his leadership.

Why is it that in a way this is culture, represents in a unique fashion the law of diminishing returns?

And we focus on all this contradictory stuff 'cause for any particular piece of advice,

Decision makers are bombarded by contradictory information provided for purely commercial reasons.

Over the past year they have demonstrated a remarkable capacity to take on additional responsibilities despite dwindling resources.

With all these contradictory forces at work we can expect wild currency fluctuations.

A monetary policy at war with itself cannot long endure.

So we have this paradox, which is that the number of annual executions has remained high but the number of new death sentences has gone down.

To resolve the paradox, it helps to turn the story into a math problem.

Uzbekistan, especially, has presented an extremely cautious, even ambivalent, face in public.

But change will require that China s leaders find a way out of their psychological ambivalence.

Among those issues was the potentially difficult situation of the conflicting claims in the South China Sea.

The claims are the result of unreal and distorted news, mixed and related in a spiteful way, manifesting contradiction in their nature.

Each of them has the right to exist, to be a part of that tormented, splendid, contradictory mosaic of humanity.

Late Sebastianism in Brazil With the proclamation of Brazil as a Republic in 1889 the Brazilian state became a secular state, in contrast to the former Brazilian Empire, where Catholicism had been the official religion.

In attempting to fulfill these inconsistent pledges, government spending this year will reach an all time high of 92.3 trillion.

And in fact, as man began to understand more his complex and ambivalent nature, harmony grew more complex to reflect it.

This perception reflects not only the contradictory pronouncements and behavior of policymakers, but also the extent to which economic outcomes have consistently fallen short of their expectations.

It is concerned that some individuals have been on death row for many years, and is disturbed by contradictory reports regarding their conditions of detention (articles 6, 7 and 10 of the Covenant).

I actively followed the news but the mass of conflicting information in the traditional media gradually put me off, and in order to be less on the edge, I selected a single source of information, a forum.

Essentially, we can see these difficulties arising from the contradictory pulls and pressures exerted by the forces of positive integration and harmony on the one hand and fragmentation and discord on the other.

One motivation behind this is to give continuity to the technical cooperation activities taking place in the country in question and avoid disjointed, overlapping or even contradictory short term projects.

This has given rise to the fear of paradoxical consequences fraught with serious implications for all of humankind, which only the building of a genuine solidarity among nations and within nations could effectively ward off.

Whether it was because of the brutality of the attack, or because it was morally and psychologically unprepared, or perhaps because of its entanglement in its conflicting interests, the world seemed confused and hesitant.

Although contradictory views about how to treat HIV persisted, at least antiretroviral therapy has been available in some public facilities over the past decade.

These contradictory trends of globalization on the one hand and fragmentation on the other, call into question the governance within States and within the international system, and ultimately call into question international collective security itself.

As we seek to seize opportunities and confront challenges at every level individual, national or global we are deeply aware of the contradictory forces at work, forces that emanate from both within and without our nations.

This is the paradoxical result of the policy response to the financial crisis.

In a country full of contradictory attitudes toward women ranging from the worship of the powerful goddess Durga to the killing of innocent young brides such gestures can be very powerful.

Neo conservatism thus cannot be reduced to advocacy of the free market or right wing populism, since its ideological specificity consists in the fusion of these contradictory outlooks.

What they shared is a paradoxical ethic common to all intellectuals the end cause of truth justifies whatever means happens to be at your disposal.

And everyone seems to have contradicting advice on the best ways to be healthy, get in shape, have a living room that could be featured on Martha Stewart instead of on hoarders, (Laughter)

TEL AVIV The voters , said Binyamin Netanyahu in his strange victory speech, during Israel s bizarre post election night, have spoken. And so they have, in a multiplicity of self contradictory voices.

The gap between the rich north and the crisis ridden south will widen, highlighting their contradictory interests and thus exacerbating Europe s tendency toward separation, primarily between the north and the south, but also between the eurozone and the rest of the EU.

6. ACC members mentioned some contradictory provisions and conclusions made by the Inspectors concerning the idea of considering a category of quot small Member States quot and the necessity for the United Nations system to rethink the allocation of assistance to those countries.

The EU did not just implement a single carbon market in order to meet its target for CO2 emissions. Instead, the EU made a bad deal a lot costlier through a host of partly contradictory policies.

The third idea I want to share with you is that music, paradoxically, I think even more than words, is one of the very best ways we have of showing who we really are. I love giving talks, although strangely I feel more nervous giving talks than playing music.

Its repercussions could be enormous, because the contradictory and erratic response of the United States to the coup could be interpreted as tacit encouragement for other would be coup leaders elsewhere in the region, at least in Central America.

Here again, the contrasting styles of Obama and McCain offer a clear choice between a calm and confident man and a highly emotional one, between a major change in the nation s direction and a minor one, between a conciliatory style and a more combative one.

Palestinian sides and despite the differing affiliations and contradictory objectives of such factions, there is the common interest they share in opposing that accord. That alliance between those factions will create numerous difficulties, examples of which we now witness in the occupied territories. Therefore, it is the