Sentence examples for contrary to be from inspiring English sources

He seems, on the contrary, to be searching for answers.

This is not to suggest that I'm a hero racecar driver; quite the contrary, to be honest.

I've always thought the contrary to be the case, but that depends, as CEM Joad used to say, on what you mean by happy.

He [Abramovich] would try to convince me, with all my experience to the contrary, to be stronger, tougher and more rigorous with the players.

The Turkish government has long maintained that an Armenian genocide did not occur, and considers suggestions to the contrary to be an affront to Turkish identity.

Saint-Preux's experience of love forbidden by the laws of class reflects Rousseau's own experience; and yet it cannot be said that The New Eloise is an attack on those laws, which seem, on the contrary, to be given the status almost of laws of nature.

Gabrielle, on the contrary, wanted to be one of them.

The former is contrary to what is expected.

This is contrary to what was expected.

This result is contrary to what is traditionally accepted.

A contrary course continued to be urged.