These contradictory roles create a fiscal and legitimacy crisis for the state, which will ultimately he overthrown by the working class.

During this time Louis played a difficult and contradictory role.

This somewhat contradictory role is what enables us to specify the concept of a local state, as well as a national one.

In the 12 years since the Palestinian Authority was formed, the security forces have taken on a range of often contradictory roles.

These contradictory roles were embedded in the traditional accounts that Apollonius inherited.

The study also provides more evidence about the contradictory roles of free radicals, also known as oxidants.

"But he had a very contradictory role inside the party, because he kicked out a lot of his enemies."

Cosmetics in the 1970s reflected the contradictory roles ascribed for the modern woman.

He noted that he played the contradictory role of agent and publisher in their haggling ritual.

Perhaps he's fortunate; it's a notoriously contradictory and unrewarding role.