Norman St John Polevaulter (Contradicting People) (0:28)

LEAD: Contradicting Western and Syrian assessments, Lebanese newspapers reported over the weekend that the release of some Western hostages may be imminent.

I TRY TO AVOID CONTRADICTING Emerson's dogmatic pronouncements in public.

Orchestre National de France Charles Dutoit, conductor Avery Fisher Hall Contradicting France's usual reputation for discretion and tact is a very different national love of shiny surfaces, spectacle and the uninhibited joyful noise.

And certainly not the right to contradict his father in public.

I need to know what people are thinking, not just contradict them.

I never got a lot in school to contradict that.

Over the years, the results of these studies have contradicted one another.

There was nothing he could say to contradict the other man.

But that is no reason for trying to make them contradict each other.

He said they had not found any evidence that would contradict the woman's story.

With language you cannot say two or three things which contradict each other at the same time.

Her book may come out and contradict everything in this film.

Even if those reasons contradict something else you believe in.

"Did you have to contradict me in front of her?"

There was no need to contradict her; he knew they'd talk again.

Certainly that was not the only reason no one contradicted him.

None of the others said a word to contradict him.

I must contradict you, for again that's just the point.

She always contradicted him when he said anything of this kind.

The Governor did not see his way to contradict him.

The only problem was, the stories contradicted each other on almost every point.

This is a time of year when the sun and the season start to contradict each other.

He knew there was no use in contradicting the woman.

Contradicting information is also available however, as would be expected.

If so, that contradicts his response to your one Question.

But sometimes the evidence would seem to contradict those statements.

The secretary of state saying one thing and being contradicted by the president.

But we have no records to support or to contradict what you say.

To be sincere contradicting oneself every minute...

Politics involves repeating oneself and contradicting oneself.

Some proponents of hard determinism have granted the unpleasantness of the scenario, but have denied that it illustrates a true paradox, since one does not contradict oneself in suggesting that a man might die between two equally plausible routes of action.