Sentence examples for contrary going from inspiring English sources

Reacting against the violent suppression of the Ben Ali years, Islamists in Tunisia oscillated between two strategies: refusing the use of violence in spite of the circumstances in the hope that international recognition would follow, and on the contrary going underground to pursue armed struggle.

C.I.A. and N.S.A. analysts immediately understood that Israel, public denials to the contrary, was going after a nuclear-weapons arsenal.

"I worry that the stereotype to the contrary is going to damage our ability to work with them in the coming years.

"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".

"Any employer that has a rule to the contrary is going to find itself in very hot water," said Jillian T. Weiss, a professor of law and society at Ramapo College who has worked on a number of cases involving transgender workplace issues.

Canada's apparent assumptions to the contrary are going to lead us, at best, nowhere and at worst, into a Faustian bargain with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

On the contrary, they go out of their way to be warm and welcoming.

We didn't reform the financial industry — on the contrary, deregulation went full speed ahead.

It is not true that "British diplomats obstructed a bid to arrange a truce"; on the contrary we went to extraordinary lengths to facilitate one.

On the contrary, Hammond went out of his way in New York earlier this month to say he wanted the governor to stay on until 2021.

On the contrary, he went to great lengths to praise repeatedly the United Nations delegates from Britain, Australia, Mexico and several other countries who sat in the audience yesterday.