Sentences with phrase «somewhat of a paradox»

Swapping Trillion $ of fraud certificates and then playing a game, suggesting that QE is ending is somewhat of a paradox or conundrum, especially in light of the tsunami of Treasury auctions and the flood of new debt, on top of 11 years of accounting fraud.

Niches in gaming are somewhat of a paradox, in the sense that their following is becoming so large that they almost can not be described as a niche anymore, yet it would be wrong to refer to them as an...

In somewhat of a paradox, the more promising the Nintendo mobile apps are, the more damaging they will be for the sales of current — or future — dedicated portable hardware like the 3DS or its eventual successor.

For two of his daughters, Emily and Sarah, born when Kunstler was almost 60, their father was somewhat of a paradox, they now say.

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The paradox of this rule is that it makes a lot of startup financing activity somewhat more private than it had been.

I think I decided to pursue it as a full book because I came to realize that the somewhat specific culture of «hipster Christianity» was actually indicative of much broader tensions and paradoxes in contemporary Christianity dealing with identity, image, and the question of cool.

Although he does not appeal, like Whitehead, in justification of this atomic view of the ultimate elements of the spatio - temporal world, to Zeno's paradoxes, the thought is somewhat similar to the latter's belief that nothing could become unless there is some becoming not composed of more minute becomings.

* shrugs *... I have a suspicion that god / dess / es don't exist, but, I'm kind of fond of the idea of a «one god» in a somewhat weird»em manent / transcendent» way (yah, I know, they don't really go together, but that is kind of what I ses as... miraculous... in my little paradigm) that is not personal, but is intimate (I know, I know, another paradox)... and that most religions are some attempt at people trying to get their head around expressing that «one god»...

Could it be that as a society we have become so far obsessed with equal opportunities within gender towards women, that we have created somewhat of a parallel paradox against the very issues surrounding men and more specifically single fathers?

Given celery juice's natural sodium content it seems somewhat counter-intuitive, but nature is full of paradoxes.

This leaves students in somewhat of a financial paradox:

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.

Fourth, and somewhat egotistically, I'm pleased that when I first encountered the problem, I reasoned on my own to the same solution reached by Hempel and very many others over the course of 60 - 70 years — a history I was unaware of until I looked into the paradox further.

In a (somewhat) recent post commenting on Justice Brown's appointment to the Supreme Court, Paul Daly wrote about «an interesting paradox» in the world of judicial review of decisions by the «political branches» of government: «[t] hose [who] would defer to Parliament would not defer to the executive.»