"With the worldwide mixing of cultures, it is now possible for contradictory trends to be fashionable," she said.

How can the existence of these two apparently contradictory trends, proletarianisation and peasantisation, be explained?

And buried in the numbers are some contradictory trends.

There are two seemingly contradictory trends making this an ideal time to sell apartment buildings, the company says.

Now, the future of fundamentalism is murky, with several contradictory trends at work simultaneously.

The period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s saw two seemingly contradictory trends in Ybor City history.

There are two seemingly contradictory trends in play.

His authoritarian rule was characterized by contradictory trends.

These are basically contradictory trends within the same theme.

The twentieth century saw an ocean of changes in inland Asia that further exposed contradictory cultural trends in the region.