inconsistent

Preposition: with

• constitution: No rule may be made which is inconsistent with this constitution.
• notion: It is inconsistent with the notion of pre-emption to argue that the threat is imminent.
• provision: These rules shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter.
• principle: I think your approach has been inconsistent with the stated principle that Ofcom is an evidence based regulator.
• obligation: They clearly established that a limited power to appoint substitutes is not inconsistent with an obligation of personal service.
• objective: Anything that puts the lives and welfare of the Irish hare at risk is inconsistent with the policy objectives of the species action plan.

Modifying Another Word

• frustratingly: Trailing in fourth comes Ronaldo, who despite some frustratingly inconsistent performances still produced moments of magic during the season.
• logically: Mathematical non-existence means that things are logically inconsistent, and that would be certainly enough to guarantee physical non-existence.
• mutually: This paper shows that these two aims are mutually inconsistent.
• internally: On this view, the atheist is not just mistaken: his position is internally inconsistent.
• hopelessly: Each rationalization is consistent with itself, but they are hopelessly inconsistent with each other.
• wildly: UNIT has been a wildly inconsistent series in terms of both style and the quality of the stories.

Modifies a noun

• terminology: This was largely due to the same metadata being used repeatedly for different learning packages and inconsistent terminology being used by cataloguers.
• spelling: Obvious indicators also include persistent reversal of letters or incapacity to recognize pictures, inability to match and bizarre and inconsistent spelling.
• finding: Given the inconsistent findings between studies it would be useful to perform a meta-analysis to provide a summary of results.
• result: However, from the patient's perspective the review process took too long and came up with inconsistent results.
• approach: Without such communication it is possible that judges will take inconsistent approaches on the same case.
• manner: Where indicators were specified, they were used in an inconsistent manner.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: That seems inconsistent with any form of security that merely provides a level of comfort rather than an outright guarantee.
• appear: The disclosure requirement, therefore, appears inconsistent with the ASB's decision not to include the recycling provisions of IAS 21.