All 9 Uses
inconsistent
in
Profiles in Courage
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- Fortunately or unfortunately, few follow that urge—but the provocation is there—not only from unreasonable letters and impossible requests, but also from hopelessly inconsistent demands and endlessly unsatisfied grievances.†
Chpt 0.1
- All of us in the Senate meet endless examples of such conflicting pressures, which only reflect the inconsistencies inevitable in our complex economy.†
Chpt 0.1 *
- That very week he had written a friend: "From my earliest youth, I have regarded slavery as a great moral and political evil......You need not fear that I shall vote for any compromise or do anything inconsistent with the past."†
Chpt 2.3
- He would act according to the creed with which he had challenged the Senate several years earlier: Inconsistencies of opinion arising from changes of circumstances are often justifiable.†
Chpt 2.3
- But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man's conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct.†
Chpt 2.3
- But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man's conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct.†
Chpt 2.3
- No man shall ever charge me with an inconsistency of that kind.†
Chpt 2.3
- Taft did not believe that this was inconsistent with the conservative doctrine; conservatism in his opinion was not irresponsibility.†
Chpt 4.9
- In each of them complexities, inconsistencies and doubts arise to plague us.†
Chpt 4.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(inconsistent) not the same in different parts or at different times
or:
not in agreement [with something else] - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)