The phrase "contrary to ordinary" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to something that is different from what is expected or normal. For example: "The atmosphere in the room was contrary to ordinary, almost as if something momentous was about to happen."
And, as Kimmel noted, what's more frustrating is that the country's current situation is so needless and contrary to ordinary intuition.
In general, mereology is a theory of sets in the collective (mereological) sense, contrary to ordinary set theory, which describes sets in the distributive sense.
High temperature exposure is observed to result in stable phases, which results in the material retaining structural integrity even when exposed to 800 °C, contrary to ordinary Portland cement (OPC) pastes that degrade completely at such temperatures.
3. Contrary to its ordinary meaning, a "catastrophe" in the mathematical sense is value-neutral.
Spatial frequency is defined as (cycles/meter), contrary to the ordinary unit Hertz (cycles/second).
As evidence for this view, Damian enumerates a large number of miracles and miraculous phenomena that are contrary to the ordinary laws of nature (612D-614B; cf. 610D-611D).
It follows that it is not even possible for there to be contingent beings, contrary to very strong, ordinary modal intuitions.
The PA as well as Hamas' leadership know only too well the public sentiment in this regard, but for too long held onto extreme positions which run contrary to the wishes of ordinary Palestinians.
The lung on the left-side was divided into three lobes, exactly contrary to what is found in ordinary cases.
Contrary to his genius, he became ordinary, trivial, vulgar … his antisemitism, his racism, all those reactionary and extreme thoughts invaded him".
Moreover, contrary to the case of an ordinary metric d, a partial metric p need not be continuous, in the sense that x n → x and y n → y as n → ∞ does not imply that p ( x n, y n ) → p ( x, y ) as n → ∞.
