"Quite to the contrary, by their very nature, these security threats require primarily international cooperation".
Claims to the contrary by news outlets, social media, NGOs and some politicians are baseless.
(This despite a laughable effort to suggest the contrary, by Fox News contributor Steve Emerson).
Any claims to the contrary by the manufacturers, he said, are "pure pretense".
They repudiated Paul's statements to the contrary by denying the legitimacy of his apostolic calling.
Quite the contrary: by misidentifying the causes of the current problems, it can actually make things worse.
Senior officials fear that any change would unleash a population boom, despite predictions to the contrary by most experts.
But that's a universe ruled by the under-40 crowd (and haunted, despite laws to the contrary, by quite a few under-20s).
Earlier in the week, David Cameron denied that the NHS was in crisis, despite claims to the contrary by Labour, the Royal College of Nursing and senior doctors.
He insisted that his forces had not interfered with the crash investigation, despite reports to the contrary by international monitors and journalists at the crash site.
On the contrary, by sentencing felons to life without parole rather than the death penalty, we respect the capacity of human beings to change.
