IT is a curious paradox that the world's airlines, which are a primary enabler of the global economy, cannot become global companies themselves.

The pervasive practice of holding back low-performing students to repeat a grade presents a curious paradox.

Moviegoers in New York these days are caught in a curious paradox.

There is a curious paradox in these patterns of women's paid employment.

It is a curious paradox, at the height of being in love, that this is a most fertile period for women.

It is a curious paradox, that we should half mistrust the police in this way.

Thus, in this curious paradox, revision became urtext, first thoughts appearing second.

There is a curious paradox in its being so.

Capitalist modes of production, he says, are marked by a curious paradox.

This raises the curious paradox about the Map Room speech.