The phrase "any instruction to the contrary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that something should be done unless there are specific instructions that say otherwise.
Example: "You should proceed with the project as planned, unless you receive any instruction to the contrary."
Alternatives: "any contrary directive" or "any opposing instruction".
Among other things, the court held that there was testimony tending to show negligence, and therefore the binding instruction to the contrary asked by the defendant was rightly refused, and that an instruction as to the operation and effect of the hours of service act was also correct.
The results taken together, and reported in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, suggest that hierarchies are pervasively embedded in social minds, all the instruction to the contrary notwithstanding.
Any statement to the contrary is false.
Any statement to the contrary is inaccurate.
In the absence of specific instructions to the contrary, a cover letter and resume are all you need to send in an initial application packet.
Some players with very definite notions of how they should play were scornful of his right to issue instructions to the contrary, nicknaming him The No10 as a sarcastic snipe at his own insignificant playing career.
Speaking to the Guardian, Waterson said primary ticket companies had little incentive to rein in touts: "In the absence of instructions to the contrary, there are clear financial incentives for a ticket seller to move some tickets into the secondary market in the case of potential sell-out events".
On the first goal, in the seventh minute, Mix Diskerud was beaten to a corner kick by Rafael Morales, who nodded the ball just inside the near post, which had been left unattended — despite instructions to the contrary that Coach Jurgen Klinsmann had written out on the dry erase board in a pregame meeting.
We held, first, that the Sixth Amendment in those circumstances forbade the use against Bruton of Evans' statement; and second, that since there was a 'substantial risk that the jury, despite instructions to the contrary, looked to the incriminating extrajudicial statements in determining (Bruton's) guilt,' the Sixth Amendment required that Bruton's conviction be reversed.
