Examples of conundrum

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A more sympathetic view might hold that, paradoxically, some mysteries might be clearly expressed: the insoluble conundrum well put.
A similar conundrum is raised by absolute time : why create the universe then and not earlier, or later ?
The conundrum, then, is what should the researcher and clinician do with the results of either or both techniques?
Her riddle is no longer a simple conundrum about the progress of man from youth to old age.
The formal conundrum of this piece is not simply one of layout however: the rhythmic implications of the two versions of the tenor are also different.
However, this provides a conundrum, since the smaller seeds in the population might be assumed to be the least developed, and hence the most desiccation sensitive.
Legal scholars and criminologists note the value of historical enquiry in their work, but their interest is in capital punishment as a contemporary problem rather than historical conundrum.
The conundrum is that the most powerful forms of health promotion action are those that are long term, and the least easily controlled or measured by conventional means.
Likewise, he referred to the conundrum of how conscious qualities could be said to be, or to be caused by, physical events, only to hand the topic to philosophers.
Sadly, however, although these conundrums provide underlying and recurrent themes, they are rarely made explicit.
Three recent books might be expected to shed light on these conundrums.
The list of philosophical, physical, and mathematical conundrums is endless.
What remains, however, is an expansive and engaging application of a powerful model of responsibility to a wide range of cases and conundrums.
Many conundrums were thought through in the course of this investigation.
In such circumstances, of course, judging the music itself is fraught with inter-subjective conundrums.
The tension between order and justice represented in his work marks a sophisticated interpretation of one of the perennial conundrums that belies international politics.
Unravelling musical conundrums has been the impetus for her profoundly imaginative, if occasionally uneven, study.
My objection here - and repeatedly as the book goes on - is directed rather against conundrums of our own making.
The detailed bibliography and the referencing footnotes help readers satisfy their curiosity and further explore the conundrums of this fascinating and polemical mission.
The target article's distinction between replication and environmental interaction adds yet another twist to these conundrums.
However, a clear basis in equal and substantial respect leaves many ethical conundrums about justice in allocations of scarce healthcare resources.
Sub-telomeric repeats are not quite so interesting, although they raise some intriguing conundrums.
As a result, bioethics has emerged as a practice that aims for the resolution of conflicts or conundrums.
Any such ranking algorithm will be vulnerable to philosophic conundrums and counterexamples.
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