Sentence examples for contrary to the judgment from inspiring English sources

It is this conviction which the Court now reverses, contrary to the judgment of the Court of Appeals.

Contrary to the judgment of the Supreme Court (front page, June 24), the only standard for university admission that is appropriate is intellectual merit.

And so it was with the Romans; the counsels and actions of Fabius, which, before the battle, they had branded as cowardice and fear, now, in the other extreme, they accounted to have been more than human wisdom; as though nothing but a divine power of intellect could have seen so far, and foretold contrary to the judgment of all others, a result which, even now it had arrived, was hardly credible.

"Contrary to the judgment already made by some media, I was not in a state of deep intoxication and my blood alcohol level was only slightly above the legal limit," he explained in a statement reported by EuroSport on Yahoo!

When these decisions are contrary to the judgment of the clinician it raises the issue of where does legal liability fall.

"They believe that portions of the Justice Department opinion are contrary to the medical judgment on the transmissibility of AIDS," he said.

However, rather than discussing with a patient who wants to be on sick leave contrary to the professional judgment of the physician, the doctor allows the patient's opinion regarding work ability to steer the decision about certification.

This the Court does contrary to the informed judgment of the Secretary who, faithful to the Act, has declared for years that distant farmers are not eligible for such a bonus.

This appears to run contrary to the Burnip judgment, however, which the court of appeal held that DHPs cannot be seen as a complete or satisfactory answer to the problems created by shortfalls in housing benefits, because they are discretionary, temporary and therefore inherently insecure.

Some commentators took Andrews as excluding strict liability and negligence cases out of constructive manslaughter, although contrary to the exact wording in the judgment there; however, a separate case also called R v Andrews convicted the defendant of constructive manslaughter based on a strict liability offence and this alternative proposition cannot be supported.

We initially described weak-willed action as free, intentional action contrary to the agent's better judgment; it may be useful to see how Davidson's more precise definition matches up with that initial characterization.