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For three months we daily battled paperwork, unreasonable demands for documents already sent, conflicting or duplicate requests from different departments, and self-contradicting, inconsistent and ever-changing criteria for certification.
Jeff Schweitzer: Why the Tea Party Is Wrong Jeff Schweitzer 2011
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop's an enjoyable if routine comedy with more wit and intelligence about its characters and their situation and more compassion for them than the usual movie farce these days has, not ruined by its weirdly self-contradicting happy ending that ---
What work is. A review of Paul Blart: Mall Cop by way of a gigantic spoiler 2009
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But, given their tastes, such an offer is self-contradicting.
Will Wilkinson on Happiness Research, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The real pernicious trick of religion is to redirect that yearning either outwards to the ineffable or into highly intricate (and self-contradicting) systems of scripture and ritual.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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I must have spent an hour trying to parse the meaning of the paragraph in question, because it seemed nonsensical and self-contradicting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fixing Errors in Westlaw and Lexis Versions of Documents 2010
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Read Catherine Kellogg's explanation, which includes helpful icons to let you know if the author is a character and if the plot is self-contradicting.
Linkspam for 17-7-2009 nwhyte 2009
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But, given their tastes, such an offer is self-contradicting.
Will Wilkinson on Happiness Research, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I must have spent an hour trying to parse the meaning of the paragraph in question, because it seemed nonsensical and self-contradicting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fixing Errors in Westlaw and Lexis Versions of Documents 2010
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As part of their attempt to defend the safety of GMOs, they assail Dr. Pusztai's work by reiterating the same faulty, self-contradicting arguments that were made during the smear campaign.
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It's that it's a "pretty please" program that only requires lenders to consider lowering the principal on home loans (or, in the Orwellian language of the program's Fact Sheet, "servicers will be required to consider an alternative Modification approach" - "required to consider" being one of those self-contradicting phrases George Carlin used to rattle off, like "jumbo shrimp.")
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Resident Evil: Are Struggling Homeowners as Immoral as the Big Banks? 2010
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