Indeed, its conclusion that executing mentally retarded offenders now is cruel and unusual punishment directly contradicts a decision it issued only 13 years ago.

Your conclusion (editorial, Dec. 29) that the principle of decentralization remains viable contradicts the lesson of history.

This conclusion however contradicts with archival materials from Russia and Mongolia.

(pronounced an-ta-nome) Two ideas about the same topic that can be worked out to a logical conclusion, but the conclusions contradict each other.

That conclusion strongly contradicts past Sandinista assertions that they had "strategically defeated" the contras.

I've seen studies where the conclusions directly contradicted the statistics.

The report's stunning conclusions sharply contradicts those of others who have studied the market plunge.

His conclusions contradict those of the Israel Antiquities Authority:

Bauer's conclusions contradicted nearly 1600 years of writing on church history and thus were met with much skepticism among Christian academics such as Walther Völker (see below).

The conclusions of the study contradict the popular notion that keeping a gun at home increases personal safety, the researchers said today.