Sentence examples for contrary to convention from inspiring English sources

The forest floor pH, contrary to convention for temperate climates, was observed to increase under some pine plantations, as compared with native tropical forest.

Many women, contrary to convention, don't care so much about their sexual virtue and find themselves behaving as men are supposed to (in our post-Minoan world).

Contrary to convention, morals and money go hand-in-hand.

Contrary to geomorphological convention many landscape elements evidently predate the Neogene.

The reason: Silver Lake structured its options program for Skype so that, contrary to Silicon Valley convention, former Skype employees would not share in the windfall.

This work demonstrates that contrary to popular convention, functional gene regulatory divergence can stem from changes in non-duplicated DNA-binding proteins; such changes were previously believed to be largely detrimental.

But for America to give itself the right to block them, contrary to the convention it has already ratified, sets a bad precedent that others might seek to exploit for sinister purposes.Another big problem is the number of hold-outs.

But this requirement, according to the court, was contrary to the convention, on the grounds that a defendant cannot be compelled to incriminate himself.A ruling by Birmingham Crown Court, involving two drivers charged with dangerous driving, is under appeal.

Throughout Brexit, Bercow has clearly sought to empower the MPs at large while remaining sensitive to government prerogative — even when his clerks advise that his decisions run contrary to parliamentary convention.

To see off the rebels, the prime minister was forced to instruct his retinue to suspend their normal practice of voting in accordance with government policy; he was forced to instruct ministers to abstain, rather than vote against: a measure that the government itself knew was contrary to EU convention, thus technically illegal.

This is contrary to the convention of retiring flight numbers that have crashed.