Sentence examples for certainly contrary from inspiring English sources

"Putting more than 300 employees out of work with no warning at the height of the tourism season is certainly contrary to the public interest".

In a House of Lords debate on Monday on the bill, Black said the clauses on exemplary damages were almost certainly contrary to European law and criticised "an unrepresentative lobby group of celebrities", a reference to the pressure group Hacked Off, which was involved in the late-night talks between the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems that led to the Leveson press deal last Monday morning.

Having the government hard-code a lower mortgage rate is heavy-handed and is certainly contrary to my personal political persuasion.

Black said the exemplary damages clauses would almost certainly be contrary to European law and criticised "an unrepresentative lobby group of celebrities", a reference to the pressure group Hacked Off, which was involved in the talks between the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems that led to the controversial press deal last Monday morning.

How to Eat hates to disagree with such a learned kitchen colossus as Harold McGee, but his assertion, in On Food & Cooking, that omelettes are "a good fate for fragile, runny lower-quality eggs", certainly runs contrary to this column's experience.

In "On Nature" Mill argues that the maxim "Follow Nature" proposed equally by the ancient Stoics and the modern Romantics is a poor guide to action, certainly one contrary to the principle of utility.

It certainly goes contrary to the interest of the majority of the American people, on at least three fronts: the economy, national security, and global warming.

Such wise statements from such senior Shiite figures are certainly helpful, as contrary to what Maliki is trying to portray, many people in Iraq realize that HE is the problem and the current crisis is not a sudden burst of extremism or a conspiracy that was being brewed abroad, but a result of years of systematic, unfair and deliberate targeting of the country's Sunni population.

Wishful thinking, perhaps, and possibly contrary, but certainly not fussy.

You may call such choices contrary, and certainly Mr. Taylor has a contrary mind.

This certainly provides a sadly contrary subtext for Gluck's charming dance music.