This runs contrary to basic notions of democracy.
Contrary to misguided notions of gender equality, women do not and will not seize power and create self-love and self-esteem through violent acts.
Excluding the public and press, a procedure expanded under the government's new Justice and Security Act, was "contrary to the notions of justice".
In the motion to dismiss the indictment, Mr. Schultz and his supporters argued that foreign cultural property laws are sweeping, ambiguous and contrary to American notions of private property and should not be the basis for criminal prosecution in the United States.
Contrary to received notions that women were excluded from the public life of ancient Athens, the exhibition's imagery will reveal that they played active roles in religious rituals, festivals, weddings, funerals and other ceremonial observances.
In Mutual Aid (1897) he drew on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to argue that, contrary to popular notions of social Darwinism, the groups that prospered in evolutionary terms were those that practiced cooperation.
And the defense memorandum is quick to quote the judge's words in another case when he criticized the gain analysis for playing such a significant role that appears contrary to "elementary notions of justice or even common sense".
It did so, not by following the rules of conventional TB care, but by challenging established ideas on why poor people develop this particularly vicious form of the disease and why they should be given more expensive drugs contrary to popular notions of cost-effectiveness.
Contrary to common notions the placebo response is not a superficial, only subjective phenomenon.
