When in power, the BJP proposed similar retail reforms, so its contrariness now is breathtakingly cynical and could be self-defeating if, as it seems to believe, the party returns to office at the next general election, due in 2014.Mr Singh's chief opponents, however, sit in his own coalition (see article).
A rejection of politics, a contrariness, and a great deal of anti-Sarkozy feeling".
or both?), but more than anything else he was just himself, contradictory, brazen, hedonistic, in love with language, in love with contrariness, in love with friendship.
The fickleness, contrariness, and outright perfidy of Supreme Court Justices have exasperated the politicians who appointed them almost since the first days of the Republic.
In light of her health crisis, her adherents found Lemken's contrariness offensively callous.
That act, like those moments from Garbo, Gish, and Brooks, suggests a vein of contrariness and complication, the astonishments of art.
Indeed, a little contrariness by someone — where is the Democratic counterpart to McCain on this issue?
To sharpen his journalistic eye, he read H. L. Mencken, who became an early mentor and whose cigar-waving directness and contrariness appealed to him.
In the spirit of modern political fact-checking contrariness — and owing a bit to the creeping sadness that there is no more baseball until spring — we turn a skeptical eye to some of the insta-myths from this Series that we Red Sox fans will be telling our descendants for years to come.
The "Against [X]" formula tends to aspire to global contrariness; after one has vanquished the unlucky target of one's invective, the rest of the world had better watch out.
Here lies a problem with "Against [X]." Its contrariness can seem contrived or ginned up for effect, aiming, with an excess of self-congratulation, for a outraged or scandalized response: Yes, folks, I'm dismissing happiness itself in a two-word title.
