Sentence examples similar to adopt a contrary position from inspiring English sources

Rather, she adopted a contrary attitude towards critics eager to pigeonhole – or at least understand – her exclusively with those terms.

To combat the effect of confirmation bias, investors can try to adopt a contrary viewpoint "for the sake of argument".

No person "claiming to have a high humanity," he argued, could take a contrary position.

A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.

"I am programmed by the practice of a lifetime to take," he wrote, "a contrary position".

Other Justice Department officials, however, have taken a contrary position.

She said I had argued a contrary position in an earlier case.

Most of the other district judges in the S.D.N.Y. had taken a contrary position.

The Munich-based automaker BMW, on the other hand, has found itself in a contrary position.

But the US Congress has taken a contrary position – in its enthusiasm to be as pro-Israel as possible.

A contrary position would not only be inconsistent with Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 98 S.Ct.