Examples of contrary

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Two contrary approaches have been taken to this evidence.
On the contrary, it is intended to uphold authority.
As a result, such approaches seem inevitably linked to colonialism and racism, despite their practitioners' claims to the contrary.
I am assuming, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the three-voice version precedes the four-voice version.
The known items, to the contrary, do show a developmental change with age.
On the contrary, interphrasal violations were number verbal agreement between the noun and the verb.
On the contrary, the factory often provided steady work, a stable wage and a world in which with a little luck one could ascend.
Nevertheless, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, this principle seems a logical one.
Refusing to tolerate them is contrary, not complementary, to education.
Perhaps the function of counting is exactly to combine the contrary meanings of individuation and counting.
Contrary to predictions, the writers did not perform better.
The headlines ignored contrary evidence, and presented 'facts' boldly, singularly and uniformly.
Indeed, everything pointed to the contrary: that the association would not be able to secure their acquiescence, let alone their active co-operation.
The procedures described in the target article prove the contrary.
Thus, contrary to initial appearances, the facts about the types and distribution of color among non-human organisms fit nicely into the framework of reflectance physicalism.
On the contrary, speech is the normal means of linguistic communication across the entire human species, with gesturing always being ancillary.
Another is that it would require that novices begin with sensitivity to nonspecific structures, which is contrary to and unnecessary in ecological theory.
On the contrary, these sensory interactions are their core business, both on the perceptual and on the neurophysiological level.
There is no such thing as "too many methods" - on the contrary, just good and bad.
The largescale fraud, corruption and practices of intimidation which accompany this manoeuvring are contrary to the legal code of public conduct.
In these and other examples of evidence-based testing of physical theories, contrary evidence is not ignored.
Contrary to their view, experience is a matter of what mediates between input and output, not input-output relations all by themselves.
However, contrary to popular belief, these two theory types do not exhaust available options.
We don't see sound arguments to the contrary!
Children from 'non-singing group', on the contrary, stated that they found singing activities anxietyprovoking and daunting.
Thus, contrary to our predictions, significant interference from the semantically-based mediator was observed in single-word context.
On the contrary, the fact that we can measure the things which we encounter depends upon a much more basic spatial understanding.
The obtained effect of pseudoword context ran contrary to this expectation.
Evidence to the contrary can be found in the ongoing debate on organ markets.
On the contrary, there is every reason to expect that it can be transferred.
On the contrary, one or both individuals would be created solely to serve the ends of adult human beings: commissioning parents and clinicians.
However, there is evidence in favor of the contrary.
Elderly women, on the contrary, increasingly dedicated themselves to domestic labour.
On the contrary, consumption is and was based around the home and family life.
On the contrary, one should experience life, right?
To the contrary, we want to generate some passion for virtue.
Contrary to the opinion of many healthcare professionals, healthcare is not the most important social good.
On the contrary, it was a vehicle which facilitated its acceptance.
Contrary to expectations, the most successful resolution occurred in the pronominal rather than the repetition category.
On the contrary, both corpora include considerable variety.
On the contrary, it means making progress in physical improvements to the neighbourhood so that it better serves the new needs of a new society.
On the contrary, they were an important part of the economic system as a whole.
Contrary to expectations, women and men living alone did not have a larger friendship network than married or partnered couples living together.
On the contrary, the structural transition identified here shows that lower emissions levels can be induced at different levels of income.
On the contrary, if the resource base were irreversibly degraded, economic growth itself could be at risk.
On the contrary, the former assumes that the project has already met some feasibility criteria leading to a lender's willingness to invest in it.
Despite theories to the contrary, ecosystems achieve patterns that emerge from selection at lower levels of organization, not that optimize aspects of ecosystem function.
Observe that in (5d), contrary to what happens in the other examples in (5), an adjective (thin) is also possible (independently of considerations of register).
Contrary to what is often thought, though, not everything in them was contrafacture.
One as contrary means 'opposite', while the other as contrary means 'obstinate'.
To the contrary, maladjustment not only persisted but, on average, worsened after grade retention.
Contrary to our expectations, there were no gender differences in initial levels of depression.
The results so far have been contrary to predictions.
Contrary to expectations, few direct effects of attachment cognitions were found, once initial symptomatology was controlled for.
Thus, he looks for a theory of trust which can make it rational to repay trust, even when this is contrary to self-interest.
On the contrary, it is simply another reason the memory is less-well connected with other memories, less retrievable.
I also argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom, detrimental externality has no special association with nonconvexity.
On the contrary, it gives the impression of resignation to the inevitable.
I would say on the contrary, but much of this work has to be directed towards environmental problems.
On the contrary, its patterning is highly systematic.
On the contrary, they actually support my claim that the prefix over- may allow for both scale-based and container-based understandings.
On the contrary, it is highly signi®cant.
On the contrary, it opened the door, potentially at least, to the modern language of religious toleration.
Contrary to single route theories, there is no activation in posterior temporal areas associated with phonological processes.
On the contrary, the data reported in section 6 are convincing.
To the contrary, even stronger claims should often be made.
To the contrary, the dynamic systems approach they advocate raises more questions than it answers.
Contrary to intuition, these results show that the system is more stable when the lower wall is heated.
On the contrary, it describes the diversity and appropriacy of use in specific local and lingua franca contexts of use.
The representation of the vortex sheet deteriorates when more points are used, contrary to the expectation expressed in the results of the error analysis.
To the contrary, relative data is about as old as statistics itself.
The general tendency is contrary to the expectation that annual effective size would increase with increasing life span or with increasing culling stage.
Contrary to the constant case, we cannot avoid the occurrence where 0 is preperiodic in this fibered framework.
Contrary to this situation we have the following theorem.
Disruptions in memory may also involve continuing to "lie" even when evidence to the contrary is obvious.
To the contrary, inflation of effects can also occur.
On the contrary, there has been great reluctance to view policies of official bilingualism or multilingualism as rights rather than pragmatic accommodations.
In contrary to the existing approaches, this new framework consists of two key techniques.
Neither did political philosophy or political party, which is contrary to the first survey.
Contrary to being a point in favour of denying services, emotional immaturity seems to be an indication for providing organized family planning services.
On the contrary, our findings show that the talk-eliciting utterances and behavioural directives were positively, though not statistically significantly, related (r=0.18).
On the contrary, our quantitative measurements revealed significant similarities between infant data in the two age ranges studied.
He is the artist's friend, and a friend of the mimic and poseur, in a world of masks, multiplicities, contraries and successive interpretations.
When conceptualizing the manner in which distant influences are involved in the construction of local literacy events, "autonomous" and "ideological" may not be suitable contraries.
A more careful examination of the data suggests that the exact contraries of both propositions are correct.
The second preserves consistency by holding that pairs of such propositions are contraries, not contradictories.
Their contraries are always possible.
On the contrary, he recognizes that specific forms of reading are produced in specific social contexts.
On the contrary, they stress that literature should deal with important issues.
On the contrary, it was the duty of writers to oppose and criticize their societies, and to identify their faults.
On the contrary, he sees it as 'one of the best ways of life yet devised for a mass society'.
On the contrary: the claim that the aesthetic is a conventionalism is entirely compatible with the claim that it cannot be reduced to politics.
On the contrary, we have to love them all differently and to learn how to order our loves in the right way.
Quite the contrary, they did interact a substantial amount.
The nation would not again revert to economic nationalism but would on the contrary take the lead in the spirit of economic internationalism.
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