And when such evident contradictions are pointed out to him, he happily refers to the practice of politics, the discipline where he feels most competent: "Let's talk again in six months or a year.

Vinci is rumoured to have been poisoned in the wake of an ill-advised affair, a story which is given by several reliable authorities without evident contradictions.

"The legislation is a clear and evident contradiction."

First, a pattern emerged that had no evident contradictions or inconsistencies.

Despite the apparent contradictions evident in the adversity of centuries of poverty, plague, prejudice, and war, these Utopians insisted that every day in every way, things were getting better.

In fact the dominant theme of this documentary, produced by Carl Lindahl and narrated by Michael J. Fox, is the pattern of contradictions evident in Cagney's life.

The unease was caused by the evident contradictions in the two accounts.

If any branch of a tableau leads to an evident contradiction, the branch closes.

Nowhere is this contradiction more evident than in California.

Politicians and diplomats found evident contradictions between the claim and the photos and the videotape footage that documented the time before and after the shooting.