Sentence examples for contrary to longstanding from inspiring English sources

Under the circumstances of this case, it was "unreasonable, unnecessary" and contrary to "longstanding law," the court concluded.

The footnote declares that, contrary to longstanding and bipartisan interpretation of the Second Amendment, the Constitution "broadly protects the rights of individuals" to own firearms.

Similarly, neuroimaging research by CLBB faculty (Somerville, 2010) clarifies that it is teenagers' heightened vulnerability to reward that drives risky behavior, contrary to longstanding beliefs that teenagers are unable to gauge risks.

Dr. Schmidt and his colleagues had previously shown that contrary to longstanding beliefs, mood changes and other symptoms that occur premenstrually might not result from hormones released near the end of each menstrual cycle.

The first of these data sets revolves around the surprising finding that the oocyte-containing follicle pool set forth at birth is, contrary to longstanding belief [ 9], replenished during adulthood by an as-yet unidentified population of presumptive female germline stem cells [ 10- 13].

"I suggest to the court that that's certainly not what the Legislature intended and in fact it is contrary to the longstanding and clear established law of the State of Florida, which Mr. Boies has meticulously avoided discussing".

A May 31 , 2010 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency expressing continuing strong concerns about Iran's lack of cooperation with the Agency's verification efforts and Iran's ongoing enrichment activities, which are contrary to the longstanding demands of the Agency and the United Nations Security Council.

"We acknowledge that this conclusion is contrary to the longstanding practice of the Patent and Trademark Office, as well as the practice of the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies that have in the past sought and obtained patents for isolated genomic DNA," the brief said.

This article analyzes why — contrary to a longstanding historical trend — personal liability may be on the decline, and whether agencies and prosecutors should be doing more.

Biochemist Ronald Breaker at Yale University suspected thiamin itself might do the deed--a hypothesis that runs contrary to the longstanding notion that only proteins can bind mRNA and turn off protein production.

Contrary to the longstanding view that newts (Notophthalamus viridescens), but not axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum), can regenerate a lens, a recent report in BMC Biology by Panagiotis Tsonis and colleagues shows axolotls indeed possess this ability during early larval stages.