Sentence examples for contrary disposition from inspiring English sources

John is given a feisty attitude by a balding, nattily dressed Lee Sellars, who smolders with his character's contrary disposition.

The presence of the potentiality can, nevertheless, be in accordance with the nature of the object in which case the change is natural (phusei) or according to nature (kata phusin), or can happen in the face of a contrary disposition on the part of the nature of the entity in which case the change is forced (biâi) or contrary to nature (para phusin).

A + T-rich NPMs generally showed a contrary disposition and AT = GC NPMs generally showed an intermediate disposition, although they had a weaker association to SINEs and recombination rate than A + T-rich NPMs.

Chromosomes 1, 11, 15, 16, 17, and 22 also showed high representation in distant species and high proportion of NP3M, whereas chromosomes 4 and 13 showed the contrary dispositions.

Quebec's Governor Frederick Haldimand was so upset at Butler's inability to control his forces that he refused to see him, writing "such indiscriminate vengeance taken even upon the treacherous and cruel enemy they are engaged against is useless and disreputable to themselves, as it is contrary to the dispositions and maxims of the King whose cause they are fighting".

She appears to cope outwardly, but inwardly she starts worrying about things she feels like saying that are on the hurtful side, quite contrary to her previous disposition.

We found that, contrary to the general disposition, the first few metabolites which were deleted from the network during our stepwise reduction approach, are not those with the shortest convergence times.

Contrary to the quiet disposition of scientists like the American bacteriologist Oswald Avery, Dart is portrayed as someone who "might have put colleagues off and militated against the ready acceptance of his writings and pronouncements" (p. 96).

Searle (1990) offers a contrary view according to which only conscious states and dispositions to have conscious states can be genuinely intentional, but most theorists regard intentionality as extending widely into the unconscious domain.

On the contrary, both self-possession and self-governance imply a special disposition to make "a gift of oneself".

The resulting system has the same behavioral dispositions as Gulliver but (allegedly) lacks sensations and other experiences, contrary to the 'Entailment Thesis', according to which the physical facts entail the psychological facts (Kirk 1974b).