Sentence examples for and therefore contrary from inspiring English sources

They seemed positive handicaps in the struggle for survival, and therefore contrary to his theory of natural selection.

The existence of an intermediate-mass black hole in the centre of one of the densest clusters with no detectable electromagnetic counterpart suggests that the black hole is not accreting at a sufficient rate to make it electromagnetically bright and therefore, contrary to expectations, is gas-starved.

This is a financing operation that extends the maturities of existing debts and therefore, contrary to what is stated in your article, it neither increases the national debt nor relaxes the commitments to achieve the deficit targets agreed by the regional governments.Elena Salgado Spanish minister for the economy and finance Madrid.

So, the F-15s are either useless (and therefore a waste of money) or unnecessarily provocative (and therefore contrary to genuine U.S. and Saudi security interests).

In conclusion, under the assumptions that k SP = k SM and that replicases do not discriminate between intra-species and inter-species replication, strand preference per se is not under any selective forces in a well-mixed system, and, therefore, contrary to a prior expectation from the optimization of the growth, its evolution is neutral.

As a result, Ms Smith reached a mistaken interpretation of the term 'main home' which, on any objective view, did not fit her personal circumstances and which was therefore contrary to the purpose as well as to the letter of the rule," Lyon said in the report on the case he submitted to the committee.

Therefore, contrary to parsimony and ML, this method has the advantage of finding the best model of trait evolution before estimating ancestral states.

The lower methylation level observed here for DNMT3b TT homozygotes is therefore contrary to expectations and this gene could influence the level of global DNA methylation independently of the hypermethylation of CpG islands in promoter regions.

The introduction of states of affairs eliminates the need for such an analysis and therefore runs contrary to a basic tenet of Brentano's theory.

Therefore, contrary to Pt(110) surface, the Cu(110) and Ag(110) surfaces are unlikely to occur (1 × 2) reconstruction naturally, which are in good agreement with the observation of Zhang et al. [21].

Therefore, contrary to its role in somatic cells (Culver-Cochran and Chadwick, 2013), BAZ1B does not regulate localization of CBX1 or pericentric heterochromatin formation during spermatogenesis.