Sentence examples for contrary to the first from inspiring English sources

That would, it held, "excessively entangle the court in religious affairs, contrary to the First Amendment".

Such a position is contrary to the First Amendment — and risks undermining public health.

Contrary to the first impression of urban primitivism a more considered view finds that Basquiat was nothing if not sophisticated.

On May 10, Nicopure became the first ENDS manufacturer to challenge FDA's Deeming Regulation, arguing that the rule exceeds FDA's authority and is contrary to the First Amendment.

Contrary to the first lesson of GWB, this has been an election campaign, on both sides, acutely aware of the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Appellant contended that to construe the state statute as applicable to her activities would abridge her right to freedom of press and religion contrary to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

This very prohibition was attacked in the Mitchell case by a labor union and various federal employees as being violative of the First, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments and as contrary to the Fifth Amendment by being vague and indefinite, arbitrarily discriminatory, and a deprivation of liberty.

Contrary to the second or third most enduring rumour in showbiz, he is straight.

Nor have the Islands invaded the sphere of activities reserved to the States, contrary to the Tenth Amendment.

The plaintiffs contending that the statute as construed and applied is contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment appealed to this Court.

Contrary to the Eleventh Circuit's suggestion, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct.