Sentence examples for and contrary to conventional from inspiring English sources

And contrary to conventional wisdom, the benefits of this growth have reached beyond the rich.

And, contrary to conventional wisdom, small farms are often more productive than large ones.

And contrary to conventional wisdom, single parenthood does not automatically lead to unhappiness.

The Democrats' position on Iraq is so "utterly untenable," Charles Krauthammer concurred, "that John McCain must seize the opportunity and, contrary to conventional wisdom, make the Iraq war the central winning plank of his campaign".

And contrary to conventional wisdom, the performance of the euro area has broadly matched America's, with similar rates of growth in GDP per person and even more net job creation (albeit with far slower productivity growth).

He has been quite as skilful as Harold Wilson was in 1975 and, contrary to conventional wisdom, started with easy, vague demands and moved onto to harder, specific ones quite late on.

What most distinguishes the candidates, however, is character — and here, contrary to conventional wisdom, Obama is clearly the stronger of the two.

Hanauer writes that Card and Krueger show that, "contrary to conventional economic orthodoxy, increases in the minimum wage increase employment". And it's true that in two papers from the 1990s, one on the fast food industry and the other by Card on the state-by-state effect of federal increases in the minimum wage, the team found modest increases in employment follow an hike.

Many of the methods that do not work are also some of the best known: rubbing alcohol, ammonia, meat tenderizer and even urine — which, contrary to conventional wisdom, is not usually very acidic.

In a 1998 article in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, sociologists Mark Regnerus, Christian Smith and David Sikkink found that data from the 1996 Religious Identity and Influence Survey suggested that, contrary to "conventional wisdom," conservative Protestants were among the most generous Christians in giving to the poor.

This departs from classical models of natural dispersal where genetic bottlenecks arise because of founder events during the colonization process (Born et al. 2008), and supports the fact that, contrary to conventional expectations, significantly reduced genetic diversity is relatively unusual in plant invasions (reviewed in Dlugosch and Parker 2008; Wilson et al. 2009).