Sentence examples for are not contrary to 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.

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.

The party of the millennium is not, contrary to popular thinking, happening on New Year's Eve.

The constituent parts of TFA's model were not, contrary to some popular belief, new.