Sentence examples for contrary to contemporary from inspiring English sources

He had just finished his first book, "American Skyline," written with Christopher Tunnard, a history of city planning that, contrary to contemporary thinking that emphasized traffic flow and functional design, praised urban architecture that drew on the decorative styles of previous eras.

On the basis of texts he himself edited, Schneider maintained that, contrary to contemporary Aristotelian theory, Marchia argues that the heavens are not made up of matter so completely different from terrestrial matter that it radically differentiates the supralunar realm from the sublunar one.

As the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun once declared, "Nothing could be more contrary to contemporary standards of decency or shocking to the conscience than to execute a person who is actually innocent".

Patton's post-battle claim that the Americans could have prevented the German escape, had Bradley not ordered him to stop at Argentan, was "absurd over-simplification". Wilmot wrote that "contrary to contemporary reports, the Americans did not capture Argentan until 20 August, the day after the link up at Chambois".

Indeed, contrary to most contemporary homes, the land will come first.

Contrary to much contemporary writing, the paper argues that space and location are of crucial importance to our understanding of network forms of organising.

(Contrary to some contemporary theologians, though, Aquinas claims that a Christian theist should believe that the universe is finitely old. For Aquinas, the finite age of the universe is a revealed doctrine, like the divinity of Christ).

Running contrary to much contemporary art, Benglis's body of work does not require outside references or prior knowledge to understand.

Contrary to the contemporary local work ethic, French cows traditionally worked more than 35 hours a week which is why the more muscular species proved popular.

Contrary to the contemporary view of politics as a rat's nest of paltry swindling, Niccolò Machiavelli, the fifteenth-century courtier and political theorist, rates it as the most worthy of human endeavors when supported by a citizenry possessed of the will to act rather than the wish to be cared for.

The moniker hints at the author's contrary relationship to contemporary Chinese literary culture, which, she has said, provides "no support for originality, which is sometimes even suppressed".