Sentence examples for contrary to the normal from inspiring English sources

For a short distance, the three northbound lanes are on the left and the three southbound lanes are on the right, contrary to the normal traffic arrangement in the US.

Lloyd George's People's Budget had been rejected the previous year by the Conservative and Unionist-dominated House of Lords, contrary to the normal convention that the Lords did not veto money bills.

Contrary to the normal repeat length in humans, all the non-human primates revealed a smaller number of repeat motifs (11 or fewer), indicating that the increase in repeat size occurred after the Homo-Pan split about 6.3 million years ago [13].

Contrary to the normal mucosa, the adenomas were uniformly stained.

This framing is contrary to the normal convention that often groups all of these factors under the rubric of "natural selection".

One limitation of these studies is that, contrary to the normal hearing control group, tinnitus patients typically have an audiometrically measurable hearing loss [Weisz et al., 2005].

Contrary to the use normal light incidence previously reported with other optical discs, we observed an enhancement in sensitivity and a narrowing of the resonant linewidths as the light incidence angle was increased, which could be related to the generation of Fano resonant modes.

Note that the Cauchy is a heavy-tailed distribution, that is, it places considerable probability mass on its tail (contrary to the skew normal, which is light tailed).

Contrary to the linear cumulative normal science idea, which suggests that science develops by the addition of new truths or the correction of past errors, Kuhn asserted that scientific development is not always straightforward (Bird 2000:2000

Much of Foliot's objections to Becket's excommunication stemmed from the lack of warning that Foliot and the others had received, contrary to the customary and normal procedures.

Contrary to the response in normal heifers, frequent manipulation of the genital tract during AI in RBH, which are supposed to have a slower tubal contractility due to suprabasal P4 during oestrus, would possibly improve sperm and/or oocyte transport, thus explaining the improvement hereby seen in pregnancy rates.