Sentence examples for contrary claim from inspiring English sources

Nussbaum's contrary claim is that we are all subject to forces beyond our control; feeling compassion for those who suffer disproportionately and experiencing sorrow because our own interests have been threatened are reasonable and humane responses.

While some have sought to justify current capitalist distributions via desert-based distributive principles, John Stuart Mill and many since have forcefully argued the contrary claim — that the implementation of a productivity principle would involve dramatic changes in modern market economies and would greatly reduce the inequalities characteristic of them.

Jesse Prinz (2007, 42) has called psychopathy a "test case", which helps us to discriminate between the claim that moral judgments are intrinsically motivating and the contrary claim that you could form a moral judgment without being motivated to act on it.

Quite the contrary, claims Ian Cranna, Starbucks' vice president for marketing in the UK.

Conflict over territory in the South China Sea is not new, with China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Brunei all staking contrary claims.

Sweden, which took over the EU presidency on July 1st, is said to take a similarly robust view.Amid the murk of contrary claims, some clear points stand out.

Similarly, she barely touches on the contrary claims of some historians that it was not the West's appeasement but rather hostility against the Soviet Union that provoked Stalin's aggressive responses.

Pierre H. Bergeron, representing the Parma City School District, said that to the contrary, claims asserted by parents in these lawsuits were simply "derivative," based on the rights that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act gives to children themselves.

This civil war, with its contrary claims to patronage and governance, quickly became enmeshed in global politics as the rival superpowers and their proxies rushed to sponsor their chosen factions.

Eisenhardt, on the contrary, claims that multiple cases allow replication between cases and is, therefore, seen as a means of corroboration of propositions (Eisenhardt 1991).

Papers classified as standpoint 2 (S2), on the contrary, claimed that some issues cannot be inferred from the risk assessment of parental GM (single) and require the generation of new evidence.