Sentence examples for a contrary message from inspiring English sources

We need to make sure it is not sending a contrary message with the criminal code".

Too many parents, he said, ask the question mechanically and pay little attention to the child's response, sending a contrary message.

Business owners in places like Kansas and Texas, the attorney general in Indiana, Catholic and Protestant bishops in Mississippi — these and hundreds of other community leaders have been sending a contrary message.

That in particular seemed a contrary message to be sending while intense negotiations were under way to persuade the United States to keep troops and military trainers for 10 years beyond the Obama administration's 2014 withdrawal deadline, and while also asking for help in paying for the Afghan security forces.

But Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C., wants to stress a contrary message he and colleague Jacqueline Shire deliver in an 11 February analysis.

At minimum, the IRS's proposal injects a contrary message that will confuse the public.

Co-opting a business leader that the British public loves to hate – Ryanair's chief executive, Michael O'Leary – was perhaps a risky move by the remain campaign, particularly when he appeared to have given a very contrary message a few months back.

If New Guineans end up feeling unconflicted about killing the enemy, it's because they have had no contrary message to unlearn.

If Labour's fiscal rectitude is of small comfort to some of these Stockton women, they might be glad to hear the oddly contrary message from the great election adjudicator, Paul Johnson of the IFS, who confirmed yesterday: "There's a very big difference between Conservative and Labour plans".

So the intended suggestion of intimacy or proximity invariably ends up sending out the contrary message of distance – unless you are able to perform the contradictory feat of uttering the names in such a way as to strip them of exactly the suggestion of celebrity or power of which they are the titular embodiment.

It falls to Gen. Petraeus and to President Obama to redouble the contrary message both to regional leaders and to the world in general: that the U.S. has a clear goal not to abandon the region to malign forces.