In the wake of Marx, "Marxist" economists developed many different, sometimes contradictory tendencies.

Baseball has been a complex repository of many, often contradictory, American tendencies since its establishment in the middle of the 19th century.

These contradictory tendencies remained with him throughout his life, as demonstrated by the dualism in his domestic and foreign policy.

"I just see Americans with very contradictory tendencies," he added.

Is American society just too big and too riddled with contradictory tendencies to be squeezed into any set of numbers?

Differential association is a good illustration of these two contradictory tendencies.

Mendelssohn's 42 numbers, lasting two and a half hours, form a hybrid in which contradictory historical tendencies work admirably together.

Explanations for these apparently contradictory tendencies will not be found by taking an instrumental approach to family law.

But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies.

Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.