Curtis Milliron, a senior biologist at the fish and game department, pointed out that historically the agency has played a dual, sometimes paradoxical role.

Caveolins have a paradoxical role in the development of this disease.

The contrasting receptions reflect America's paradoxical role in the world today.

He appears to aspire to a rather paradoxical role in Jewish life: a guru of the Talmud.

Its contribution to peace is the paradoxical role it plays in restraining the use of nuclear weapons.

Or, as Dr. Sacks has written, sometimes neurological disorders "can play a paradoxical role by bringing out latent powers."

This paradoxical role is represented in Between and Amalgamemnon by the symbol of Jonas inside the whale, waiting to be 'reborn'.

The paradoxical role of education and training in relation to these inequalities is that they very often contribute to their perpetuation.

Mr. Julien acknowledges the paradoxical role of desire within interracial relations.