Sentence examples for contrary to a vast from inspiring English sources

In a statement, the channel Press TV, which acts as a mouthpiece for the Tehran regime, said that "contrary to a vast publicity campaign by Western media that confessed murderer Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been released", she was still in custody.

At face value, this result appears to run contrary to a vast literature showing that people portray themselves more positively than other people.

This process could arise in our studied species because, contrary to a vast majority of songbirds living in more continuous habitats, skylark populations have a particularly fragmented distribution, mainly due to human activities, leading to distinct small patches of acoustic variability [10].

Contrary to a common belief, labyrinths are not mazes.

But not exclusively, contrary to a common assumption.

Chaffetz's strategy is contrary to a rational democracy.

This is contrary to a guarantee of independence.

Alistair Thompson, a spokesman for the campaign group Care Not Killing, said: "These are a number of doctors who are contrary to the vast majority of the medical professionals who do not support assisted suicide and euthanasia.

South Carolina is one of the nation's most conservative and Republican states, and Mr. Sanders acknowledged in his next campaign appearance that his view of capital punishment was "contrary to what the vast majority of South Carolina believes".

At one end are the mad rantings of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who, contrary to vast troves of historical evidence, denies that the Holocaust occurred at all.

Although several men I spoke to wished to believe the contrary, a vast number of Colombian breasts seem to be, well, a bit "magically real".