The criticisms of prison-diversion programs may have merit, but to the degree that they are based on a claim that every offender should face the full impact of the penal law, they are contrary to history and practice.
After reading a transcript of Kipphardt's play soon after it began to be performed, Oppenheimer threatened to sue the playwright, decrying "improvisations which were contrary to history and to the nature of the people involved".
It was, for instance, distressing to find that, contrary to the history of the 19th century taught in every history, literature, and sociology class, it was not true that under laissez-faire capitalism "the rich got richer and the poor got poorer".
We are now seriously asked to accept that in the last few years, contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence, he decided unilaterally to destroy the weapons.
"Behind the full veil hide scandalous practices that are contrary to our history," he said.
What worldview led this man to take positions contrary to wisdom, history, science, common sense or the people's will?
Contrary to revisionist history, there indeed were short-term benefits for the Wilpons as their new ballpark neared completion and their cable television network made its debut.
The amicus brief that Ms. Kagan signed challenging Solomon advanced an argument so contrary to the history and intent of the statute that the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion went out of its way to refute it.
In this case, however, the buried secret concerns the wartime fate of the local Jews who, contrary to official history, were not deported by the Nazi occupiers but massacred in a single day by their Gentile neighbors.
Figure 3 (d) allows to compare the duration of demographic histories for all species, and one could see that demographic histories of M. herderiana and G. fasciatus are short, contrary to demographic histories of B. turriformis, B. carinata and B. carinatocostata.
So the big story in LA is really that the Clippers -- contrary to their awful history -- have finally acquired productive players.
