The autocratic nature of Guzmán's regimes was in sharp contradiction with the economic and legal reforms as well as with the achievements brought about.

The population pressure and the sharp contradiction of the land redistribution drove a few residents to leave.

Even without such sharp contradictions, economic fireworks have a way of flaming out sooner than expected.

In the sharpest contradiction in the accounts, Mr. Speaker said yesterday on "Good Morning America" that county health officials who met with him all but wished him bon voyage.

This is perhaps in sharp contradiction to the common stereotype of older people passively accepting the onset of the tide of ill health associated with later life.

And the sharpest contradiction was delivered by Ari Fleischer, the president's former press secretary.

In sharp contradiction to the Administration's position, the assembly declared: "There is a scientific consensus that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases will cause global climate change.

Still, Nabil Osman, a government spokesman, said homosexuality was in "sharp contradiction with our religious values."

More frightening still is the rapporteur's enduring belief in the myth of 'democratic change through trade', the sharpest contradiction of which is the current situation in China.

Perhaps it's this despairing frame of mind that leads Freud into sharp contradictions and intellectual lapses in "Civilization and Its Discontents."