That's exactly it. Contrarian.

That practice would appear to be contradictory.

This argument of course, shoots itself in the foot.

One of the best known of Zeno's problems is called the dichotomy paradox, which means, the paradox of cutting in two in ancient Greek.

The policy seems to have mixed results.

But sometimes it's very paradoxical.

Here comes that bad luck lady again.

We see contradictory developments some positive and others negative.

And then we have your own two different stories from your own lips.

The contradictory college The conflicting origins, impacts, and futures of the community college.

Germany s actions throughout the crisis have been plainly contradictory.

He sends different diplomats into negotiations with contradictory instructions.

quot Economic freedom is guaranteed as long as it is not opposed to social interests.

It's so queer that physicists resort to one or another paradoxical interpretation of it.

The West s response has been far more supportive of Arabs aspirations, but it has also been contradictory and erratic.

The rest are Shia. Each of these groups is making different, if not contradictory, demands.

There seems to be conflicting reports now that Mubarak has in fact resigned from his post as president of the NDP.

A look at today's world often shows us a very contradictory picture.

The period of global transition now before us is marked by particularly contradictory signs.

Frankly, sticking to the public record, the two resignations seem like night and day.

30. The scheme of limits was another source of conflicting opinions in the Committee on Contributions.

In the present restructuring of the world economy the interdependence that is preached has contradictory effects.

A formula should be devised to limit the institutional spread of destination for action centres, to avoid contradictory outcomes.

quot Today, the African scene especially as projected by the audio visual mass media, confronts us with highly contradictory images.

Moreover, the Sunni Shia divide frequently leads to contradictory policies.

In our continent, Africa, the contradictory positive and negative trends have also manifested themselves, both in the political arena and the economic sphere.

Narratives increasingly conflict and in an astonishingly open and unsettling way.

The vague wording of the exceptions leaves plenty of room for contradictory interpretations regarding the patentability of the human gene.

And to this day, I am ambivalent, but when you have instead games like Flow, there's no doubt.

Crisis management is no way to sustain relationships that are economically close but riddled by rival claims and bitterly contested historical narratives.

But Mao kept sending them contradictory orders the result was that they could neither fight nor retreat.

The military authorities, the doctor who signed the death certificate and the prisoners who were present when the events occurred gave contradictory accounts of the circumstances and causes of death.

Latin countries present contrasting scores for example Venezuela has a 73 point score whereas Chile's is only 28.

In 1999, IFACAT provided information that contradicted aspects of the periodic reports submitted by Luxemburg and Mexico to the Committee against Torture.

The international realities that form the background of the current session are a direct reflection of the development of extremely contradictory tendencies within the world community.

Second, Americans don t demand that immigrants regard their cultural or ethnic background as being in contrast to or in opposition to their American ness.

Secondly, the basic positions of the parties remain diametrically opposed with no or at least very little  common ground.

By making myself invisible, I try to explore and question the contradictory and often inter canceling relationship between our civilization and its development.

I thought if I skipped it might help my nerves, but I'm actually having a paradoxical reaction to that, so that was a bad idea.

(h) During pretrial investigation, the applicant did not cooperate with the authorities, made contradictory statements and tried to hide the details of the crime and of others of which she was aware

The existing legal treaties do not adequately ensure the transfer of science and technology for peaceful purposes. Even their modest provisions are subject to contradictory interpretations.

3.1 The author claims that he was denied a fair trial, that the charges against him were fabricated and that the evidence against him was contradictory and uncorroborated.

The outcome was paradoxical, and not to the liking of those who initiated it but the right of the communities to determine their future was accepted.

People do a great deal of thinking, but sometimes they think so much that they come up with contradictory responses.

For three decades, under both the right and the left, the country has pursued the same incompatible, if not contradictory, goals.