Sentence examples for contrary to the accepted from inspiring English sources

Contrary to the accepted superstition, Count Dracula casts a very long shadow.

Moral turpitude has been defined by the courts as behavior that is "inherently base, vile, or depraved, and contrary to the accepted rules of morality".

Revenge puts the hero into a story for selfish reasons, ones which often run contrary to the accepted definition of heroism.

By inserting microelectrodes into the giant nerve fibres of the squid Loligo forbesi, they were able to show that the electrical potential of a fibre during conduction of an impulse exceeds the potential of the fibre at rest, contrary to the accepted theory, which postulated a breakdown of the nerve membrane during impulse conduction.

This interpretation in terms of anagenesis, or transformation, is contrary to the accepted explanation of speciation within evolutionary biology, which is cladogenesis, or branching (e.g., Futuyma [2013]).

Contrary to the accepted model, the results indicate that Celtic jumped from the continent over the English Channel just once, then split into the languages now spoken in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

Contrary to the previously accepted view, we have shown using cryo-immunogold EM that the mycobacteria can translocate from the confines of the phagosomal membranes into the cytosol, where they replicate more rapidly and cause cell death (van der Wel et al. 2007).

And, contrary to the widely accepted role of such decisions, this one had no precedential value.

This runs contrary to the widely accepted belief that South America was a very dry place back then.

This is contrary to the commonly accepted hypothesis describing gradual epimerite constriction and subsequent separation facilitated by contractility of the membrane fusion site (osmiophilic ring).

The fact that a small number of scientists present ideas contrary to the widely accepted scientific consensus does not automatically give their ideas equal weight and credibility.