SOME people think football is a matter of life and death; on the contrary, Bill Shankly, a legendary coach, once observed, it's more important than that.
On the contrary, the bill turned the modest-sized troubles of savings-and-loan institutions into an utter catastrophe.
To the contrary, the bills are specifically designed to focus on the worst of the worst sites whose model is predicated on theft.
Despite repeated Republican claims to the contrary, the stimulus bill created at least hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to nearly all nonpartisan analysts, including the Congressional Budget Office.
To the contrary, the new bill would allow smoking in lounges and private offices that use the same air-handling system as nonsmoking areas, and in smoking sections of outdoor restaurants.
They used the slave count, on the contrary, against slaves in bill after bill.
Ms. Noone also acknowledged that there was little evidence that Firefighter Prior paid her phone bills, contrary to her claims.
There's no such ease of presence among the pretty but dour ensemble of Gaspar Noé's Love (Curzon, 18), which, contrary to its billing as a boundary-busting sextravaganza, emerges as a lugubrious critique of modern-day erotic mores.
Contrary to its billing in the media, MySpace is not a "kids site," not unless you call 18- to 30-year-old kids.
On the contrary, financial reform bills being circulated contain provisions that would give whistle-blowers as much as a 30% bounty on FCPA fines.
Mr. Wauquiez said that the bill ran contrary to European treaties, and that France would contest it before the European Court of Justice.
