This runs contrary to the image of financial conservatism that the N.B.A. projected during its lockout stand last year, but apparently this particular class of players is well-positioned to take advantage of a bit of a spending vacuum.
This is all well and good and shows that contrary to the image projected in most Warner Brothers movies, Germans today are not just screaming Nazis.
Contrary to the image assiduously and malignly created for her, she was kind, decent, hard-working and, above all, brilliant at what she did".
Mr. Valentine, whose family has owned the drive-in since 1964, said that contrary to the image of the theaters as places to see a "naughty nurse movie," most of them play family-oriented films.
Several local workshops soon began churning out the mantels, Mr. Baker said, in an operation that — contrary to the image cultivated by the Heat Surge ads, which show a horse-drawn buggy hauling space heaters — is modern.
And contrary to the image of the fundamentalist Muslim, Mohammed Atta, who was aboard the same plane, was seen drinking and playing video games at a Florida sports bar last week.
Yes, we are affected by the economic downturn, like other businesses in the financial sector, but we are working hard and doing very well, contrary to the image Ms. Widdicombe portrayed.
Contrary to the image sometimes conjured up, death duties, the precursor to inheritance tax, were once paid by a much larger slice of the population than is now liable for inheritance tax.
Contrary to the image it has cultivated in the popular press, Apple has admitted in internal documents that its strength is not in developing new technologies first, but in successfully commercializing them.
Contrary to the image of liquid mobility, we are not all refugees or floating populations.
