Sentence examples for Contrary believed from inspiring English sources

While it is possible to apply Locke's general principles of education to all children, and contemporaries such as Coste certainly did so, Locke himself, despite statements that may imply the contrary, believed that Some Thoughts applied only to the wealthy and the middle-class (or as they would have been referred to at the time, the "middling sorts").

Anarcho-capitalists, on the contrary, believe that, without government, people will behave more or less the same: we will be just as creative or greedy or competent as we are now, only freer.

On the contrary, most believed that SHS has no adverse impact at all.

On the contrary, he believed it was possible to create conditions in which they were unnecessary.

Despite any cold evidence to the contrary, she believed all this.

Despite scientific consensus to the contrary, Bradstreet believed vaccines could cause autism.

Rauschenberg was not anti-art; on the contrary, he believed in the transformative power of the aesthetic experience.

On the contrary, Lippmann believed that only a technocratic, elite class could do that, and his books explain a reality in accordance with that solution.

To the contrary, voters believed that it would be easier to locate the border once it had a twenty-foot wall.

On the contrary, "she believed that something could stand for something else, a rose for love, an ocean for life, a cross for death".

To the contrary, he believed in free will and the power of human agency to make choices that can radically change situations.