Sentence examples for contrary to facts from inspiring English sources

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On Monday, the Ministry of Science and Technology MOSTT) issued a sharp rebuttal that claims the editorial's assertions "are contrary to facts" and highlights a slew of recent Chinese-born S&T advances.

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Might is iffy, hypothetical, perhaps contrary to fact; may introduces a real possibility.

The only possible meaningful implication -- that Communist regimes were proponents of atonality -- is simply contrary to fact.

The National Collegiate Track Coaches Association in the United States passed a resolution asserting that its members knew the doping charge was "contrary to fact".

He cursed in the fricative,The way she could not act,Or live in the indicative,Only contrary to fact.

However, the website refers to climate change as a "historical phenomenon", and states – contrary to fact – that its causes are a matter of continued debate.

This may be a result of a rare slip: Tracy believes, contrary to fact, that there was almost no anticlericalism in Castile.

I asked Hohensinn what he would do if, contrary to fact, it were conclusively proved that prisons like his encouraged crime rather than diminished it.

It is a mistake, after all, to lean too much on the world of polls whose basic question begins with a condition contrary to fact: "If the election were held today".

Without specifically addressing Mr. Limbaugh (whom he said he enjoys), Mr. Smith said: "An unreasonable comment to me is beginning with a statement that is contrary to fact and moving on from that premise: 'Barack Obama is not a citizen; he is a Muslim looking to take down the nation.' When you begin with that premise, you are out of bounds".

(Some of my readers took umbrage at this, too: "Get this," Sam Pakenhamemberh, member of the Nitpickers League, said in an e-mail message, "we no longer use the subjective tense! Has all our education been for naught?" Because Ferraro's statement posed a condition contrary to fact, her "if Obama was a white man" should have been were. Neither campaign demanded a correction).

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