| Islam's fundamentals are based on some eternal truths that can easily cope with peripheral polarities. |
| Self and not-self, subject and object, are not contradictories, but dialectical polarities. |
| We tell the solstice story in our own lives as we identify the polarities, the conflicting needs and desires, that give rise to our own distress and dis-ease. |
| Zen monks are sophisticated enough in their understanding of their tradition to mediate in their daily lives these polarities of structure and transformation, discipline and iconoclasm, learning and bibliophobia, morality and antinomianism. |
| The determination of geomagnetic polarities in volcanic sequences was carried out in the field using portable fluxgate magnetometers. |
| Breeders, competitors and tolerators are useful as categories, but are more informative as quantified axes, or polarities. |
