Sentences with phrase «something of a paradox for»

This presents something of a paradox for publishers in that they have to grow the digital market without cannibalizing print sales.

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Yet the history of this quest for quietness, which I've explored by digging through archives, reveals something of a paradox: The more time and money people spend trying to keep unwanted sound out, the more sensitive to it they become.

That the whole constitution of many persons may be such that this paradox repels them is indeed true, but one ought not for this reason to make faith something different in order to be able to possess it, but ought rather to admit that one does not possess it, whereas those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

There is even something to be said for the so - called «paradox of choice»: that when presented with too many options, we may be overwhelmed with information and have trouble making any decisions at all.

Thus we have a lethal paradox — if you control something large that is famously, magnetically rare and you toss away half of it for a quick profit, the remaining half becomes twice as valuable.

This pressure is set to leave a lot of young people living with family for longer, creating something of a social paradox.

Some scientists refer to this as the «paradox of choice» — a lot of choices feels like something we want, but it ends up being bad for us.1

Whether regarded as a postmodern study of the paradoxes of art and identity, or just viewed as a series of amusing, intricately related episodes, this bold Hollywood satire has something - but perhaps not quite enough - for everybody.

Actually, there is some interesting work being done by Matt Huber of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role of TCs in transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem» of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.