Sentence examples for a contrary direction from inspiring English sources

And when it is, art is often ahead of the political news curve, and heading in a contrary direction.

To eschew something is a very active repudiation, like stalking away from it in a contrary direction.

There is nothing in the sparse legislative history or the statutory text that could fairly be described as a "contrary direction," ibid., from Congress to narrow the offense's scope.

The silence of the body that is empowered to give us a "contrary direction" if it does not want the common-law rule to survive is consistent with an application of the normal presumption identified in Taylor and Morissette, supra.

In Jay's own state, despite the campaign launched on 30 October by a group of "Federal Republicans" headed by Customs Collector John Lamb and including Melancton Smith, sentiment was already moving in a contrary direction.

The solution would appear (sometimes the novel felt like a vast crossword puzzle) through a combination of experiment, meditation and lateral thought: I had to step firmly away from the French and face a contrary direction – another track entirely.

But he also throws in the caveat "and there's not an appeal or some other contrary direction from a federal court" which makes me wonder.

Although there was a significant correlation between performance on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) and telomere length in the expected direction, a significant association was also observed in the contrary direction for telomere length and simple reaction time.

And there is no need to be disturbed by the fact that on this showing there may be more than one contrary to the same thing, that a particular motion will be contrary both to rest and to motion in the contrary direction.

Then, the motor can realize three-step speed regulation by switching the operation mode, and drive two rotors rotating or two sliders moving with same or contrary direction.

In such case, absence of contrary direction may be taken as satisfaction with widely accepted definitions, not as a departure from them.” Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 263 (1952).