"These are not contradictory goals: America can be a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time," he said.

Diplomats say these contradictory goals account for the mixed signals China has been sending.

President Bush's programs for energy and environment-related matters reflect somewhat contradictory goals.

The conservation and commodification of bison are fundamentally contradictory goals.

Struggling to balance two contradictory goals, Republicans are in a bind.

For the moment, the United States has contradictory goals.

It is the leaders' own contradictory goals that are really to blame.

Nominal and real convergence are not two mutually contradictory goals here.

And on economic policy, it contained contradictory goals.

Afterwards, the two national movements developed with contradictory goals, leading towards the later clash.