Sentence examples for contrary to certain from inspiring English sources

Contrary to certain claims, the cellphone ban will not create a better learning environment in schools.

And it turns out that contrary to certain individuals' worst fears, accent or nationality did not affect patient outcomes.

Contrary to certain scare tales, the fish does not swim up the urine stream of someone standing on the bank urinating into the river.

"Contrary to certain press reports, it was not 'rejected' at the time: her putative editor – having read Go Set a Watchman – persuaded her to write Scout's story through the eyes of a child, and the plan was to write a short novel to act as a bridge to Go Set A Watchman.

Asghar Farhadi, a deserving winner for "A Separation," took a moment to reassure us that his fellow Iranians "despise hostility and resentment," the implication being that they do not, contrary to certain claims made on the U.S. campaign trail, spend their weekends cooking up helpful specks of uranium-235.

"Contrary to certain members of Congress, the governors' fiduciary duty to the public does not permit them to violate the 6-day proviso in order to maintain fiscal solvency, and proceeding with such a plan would entail substantial risks," they said in the memo.

Now, I adore Michelle Obama and I am utterly besotted with her style, which is, contrary to what certain downmarket tabloids in this country have claimed, just a million times more fun than anything Kate née Middleton has ever worn in her life.

Contrary to that, certain external information induces emotions, which we termed as instinctive information.

Contrary to advertising, to certain enraged critics and to all of those "opinion shapers," Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is not just about the basterds.

This leads to a consideration contrary to structural functionalism: certain norms in a society may be established not because of any general consensus about their moral value but because they are forced upon the population by those who have both the interest in doing so and the power to carry it out.

In giving these dates for Plato's life, contrary to those offered in certain other SEP articles, I follow Nails (2002).