paradoxical effect

collocation in English

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paradoxical
adjective
uk
/ˌpær.əˈdɒk.sɪ.kəl/us
/ˌper.əˈdɑːk.sɪ.kəl/
seeming impossible or difficult to understand because of containing two opposite facts ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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Why should exempting the hands from their former communicational responsibilities have had theparadoxicaleffectof extending left-hemispheric control to these now-excluded hands?
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Several studies on the effectiveness of cholesterol testing have shown aparadoxicaleffect: a reduction in deaths from heart disease but a small increase in total mortality.
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Furthermore, the policy construction of the client's right to ' choice ' and its implementation in service provision has aparadoxicaleffecton the agency accorded to older people.
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Secondly, the employment protection legislation made it more difficult for smaller employers to employ people, and had theparadoxicaleffectof damaging employment.
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If one comes then to this specific proposal, it has one ratherparadoxicaleffect.
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It also said that the scheme would have theparadoxicaleffectof driving many rail passengers back into their cars.
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In countries where there has been a total ban on cigarette advertising, there has been aparadoxicaleffect—an increase, not a decrease, in smoking.
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Lower prices could have theparadoxicaleffectof stimulating output, particularly by those larger farmers who are in a position to stimulate output.
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A line fixed at, or around, the benefit level has theparadoxicaleffectof increasing the number of poor people whenever the benefits are increased.
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Theparadoxicaleffectof the changes would be to reduce the available information about directors' remuneration in unlisted companies.
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Theparadoxicaleffectis that, the harder policing agencies work to produce security, the greater are feelings of insecurity.
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Antipsychotics typically have aparadoxicaleffectand worsen symptoms of depersonalisation.
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Prisoners exhibit theparadoxicaleffectof social withdrawal after long periods of solitary confinement.
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Interestingly, as the essays in this collection chronicle, the backpacker's putative desire to distance oneself from the nation-state has had, perhaps, paradoxical effects.
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This issue has been studied by means of the picture-word interference paradigm in which two paradoxical effects have been observed.
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Now, these may give birth to paradoxical effects in which a small force overcomes a large resistance.
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We also briefly discuss their paradoxical effects as cell cycle and tumour promoters.
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The increased contacts therefore had theparadoxicaleffectof making monasteries more aware that there was an alternative tradition of exegesis and scholarship, and stimulating them to counter this.
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Elevated levels of inhibitory neurosteroids, namely allopregnanolone, can produce paradoxical effects, such as negative mood, anxiety, irritability, and aggression.
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