Sentence examples for are not contrary from inspiring English sources

We are not, contrary to what readers of this blog might think, mordant people.

When Hume claims... that such preferences are not contrary to reason, he is forgetting, or mis-stating, his normative beliefs.

But they are not, contrary to first impressions, a straightforward result of the current economic and financial crisis.

But it says her scheme and others like it are not contrary to the Human Rights Act, and the department is "strongly resisting" the case.

Now there are two ways of moving along a circle, from A to B or from A to C, and we have already explained that these movements are not contrary to one another.

When Islamic parties won recent elections in Egypt and Tunisia, they promised to write new constitutions that respect international human rights — as long as those rights are not contrary to Islamic law.

That CP does not entail EADP should be clear because there are grounds for doubting h that are not contraries of h.

Disclosure and hiddenness are not contraries in Gadamer's aesthetics, but mutually dependent: the disclosed reveals the presence of the undisclosed in the disclosed.

The course of history is not, contrary to Marx, determinate.

It is not, contrary to expectations, a modest achievement.

This language is not contrary to the Court of Appeals' position here for two reasons.