Sentence examples for contrary force from inspiring English sources

In the medieval classroom, for all its emphasis on tradition-bound hierarchy and order, a contrary force came into play, one that unleashed the charisma of talented individuals: the disputation, in which a respondent affirmed the thesis under discussion and an opponent attempted to refute it.

Gassendi saw that the motion of the dropped stone at a sustained speed in the absence of any contrary force or obstacle is an instance of inertial motion, albeit one where the motion is compositional (describing the parabola).

In handwriting or drawing, on the contrary, force and position control are both relevant but are independent, thus leaving room to an infinite variety of writing styles.

And yet even then there were powerful contrary forces plainly visible.

He held that fire first originated from water and that these two, operating as contrary forces, produced the physical cosmos.

But they may owe their popularity to contrary forces -- to our contempt for the private and the personal, both of which we seem bent on defiling.

We feel this strain of contrary forces over and over in the 16 stories in Boyle's new collection -- his sixth, counting the hefty compilation "T.

(In fact there is an incentive to take the loss and set it off against other taxable gains).But there are contrary forces at work.

In Mr Klein's telling, advanced liberal democracies, being what they are, tend always toward more thoroughly nationalised health-care systems, their natural state, unless prevented by contigent, contrary forces.

"I think my constant desire to understand mechanisms and solve puzzles in some ways goes back to Tintin, his sense of curiosity and opposition to contrary forces, going up against these very mysterious things that are gradually revealed to be far less complicated".

But think of them in terms of Yin and Yang: seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent.