Anchor: All too frequently a cycle of drought, famine, and plague would decimate the population.
Entailed: The population would be often decimated by plague, drought, and famine.
Contradiction: The population grew unhindered by famine and plague.
Contradiction: Recent Greek drama. 
Contradiction: Even just the first appeal delays things by a few years.
Contradiction: In 1635 was created the Academie Germaine.
Contradiction: A dog outdoors.