They are in some ways contradictory values.

Improvised yet rigorously ordered-looking, they are dances of serenely contradictory values: bold yet delicate, serious but playful, filled with hard-edged, discrete phrases that flow into a whole.

Therefore, he does not permit himself to hold contradictory values, to pursue contradictory goals, or to imagine that the pursuit of a contradiction can ever be to his interest.

It also means you can't hold contradictory values or goals.

"That optimism is related to two oddly contradictory but, in America, somehow complementary values of liberty and equality," Mr. Schulman said.

Nithard reveals the contradictory values and expectations which otherwise have to be surmised.

American Government rests on two competing and, in some sense, contradictory values.

So whenever they harp on about this Green issues, its plainly nonesense - notice how Cameron never discusses sustainability, because ideologically, it is contradictory to his Party's values.

It was a very long and difficult debate because we were confronted with two contradictory values: establishing conditions for animal welfare and ensuring the sector's competitiveness.

The contributors to the Methods of the Sima stress that appropriate civil and military roles must be distinguished because of their contradictory values.