"I don't know," Mr. Bloomberg said, "why keeping the country safe is antithetical to the values of Yale".
"The video is highly offensive and is antithetical to the values of Alpha Tau Omega," the statement continued.
Trying to revive the project at the raceway, Mr. Berman went back to the Cayugas, but once again they rejected a casino as antithetical to Indian values.
At the same time, powerful autocracies like Russia have staked out positions that are antithetical to liberal values — on Syria, for instance.
What he did not anticipate was that the theory could cut in other ways, antithetical to his values and policy preferences.
"Hazing practices are harmful and antithetical to our values as a university and our commitment to student-athletes," Andy Noel, the director of athletics, said in a statement.
Indefinite detention – holding detainees for what is now decades with no trial or even charges of any kind on the horizon – is about as antithetical to American values and the constitution as it gets.
The nominations of Mr. Ashcroft and Ms. Norton are vulnerable, then, not because they are the target of liberals but because the nominees hold positions that are antithetical to the values of this rising center.
That aspect of "24" and similar programs has been criticized by human rights groups as legitimizing interrogation tactics said to be not only antithetical to American values but also ineffective in obtaining reliable information.
And yet when Richard Levin, the President of Yale, sent out an e-mail protesting the surveillance, the Mayor said, "I don't know why keeping the country safe is antithetical to the values of Yale".
I do not believe that he is the president that we need at this time in our country's history and I believe that in many ways he is antithetical to the values of the Republican party".
