Your argument that cutbacks arising from bankruptcy would have been inevitable contradicts your assertion that the stores are well run and profitable.

This is done to ensure that one's argument does not contradict or alter the narrative itself.

The argument contradicts Russia's own interests, never mind that it has little link to reality.

The arguments not only make no sense ab initio, but openly contradict one another.

The above argument by Aspinall contradicted the views of earlier scholars.

This argument contradicts the widespread belief that biological weapons are rare and aberrant tools of warfare and it is supported by the following observations:

The network interviewer--often the same one--talking to these various analysts never says: "Your argument directly contradicts the one we heard just 15 minutes ago.

Not a single argument and you didn't contradict me once.

For some feminists, anthropologist Michelle Rosaldo wrote, this argument contradicted a core principle of their understanding of relations between men and women.

After all, the argument that Silicon Valley's job hopping fosters innovation contradicts economists' common assumptions.