Sentence examples for as being contrary from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "as being contrary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that opposes or contradicts another idea or statement.
Example: "The committee's decision was criticized as being contrary to the established guidelines."
Alternatives: "as opposed to" or "in conflict with".

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Great lords hostile to Montezuma denounce the friendship as being contrary to the best interests of the Mexican people.

Across the region, most people and governments see American policies as being contrary or even hostile to their wellbeing.

Other committees appeared that claimed the legality of their activity and protested reprisals as being contrary to the 1975 Helsinki Accords.

But the club is now challenging this in the French courts as being contrary to the tax convention between France and Monaco made in 1963.

Worse, Al Qaeda's cause was repudiated throughout the world, even in Muslim countries, where the indiscriminate murder of civilians and the use of suicide operatives were denounced as being contrary to Islam.

Despite different ways of dealing with disability at different times, one fundamental assumption is clear: 'Disability' was regarded as being contrary to the rules and therefore disabled people have been constantly under threat of elimination.

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She acknowledged that she's as strong-willed as her protagonist and just as capable of being contrary, but in a charmingly low-key way.

At the D'Antoni kitchen table, being contrary was as natural as asking for second helpings.

Ms. Bravo describes the Jack Wills strategy as "beguiling and being contrary to all retail and branding principles we have gotten accustomed to".

The New York Times has described their response to the issue as "publicly muted" despite being contrary to "their own corporate policies against discrimination".

Children with non-bloody diarrhoea who received any antibiotic but neither had pneumonia, malnutrition, meningitis, neonatal sepsis nor any other bacterial infection, were coded as having received antibiotics inappropriately as this is contrary to advice in national guidelines.

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