"On the contrary: understanding these mutually beneficial secret deals, understanding exactly how Sir Philip Green managed to make BHS so lucrative for his family in the early years, is crucial to understanding the mess we are in now, with 11,000 jobs and 22,000 people's full pension entitlement on the line".
Further reading: For a contrary understanding of Descartes' conception of scientia, see Jolley (2013).
On the contrary, understanding how they came about makes them even richer objects of our admiration.
A contrary understanding has become so familiar in our politics that it is hard to recall when anyone last worried about excessive partiality for one nation.
Nor did Syrian troops leave Lebanon, contrary to understandings apparently reached in 1989.
On July 1, Abe announced that his government would "reinterpret" Article Nine to allow the "the threat or use of force" that the Constitution renounced "forever," repudiating two generations of contrary legal understanding.
On the contrary, an understanding spouse was a good support for several of the physicians interviewed, who reported that their wife had helped them to analyze the situation and their own feelings.
"If people are returning to Gaza without going through the required security procedures," an Israeli government official said, "then that would be contrary to the understandings reached".
"Contrary to previous understandings, posts with negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state, its leaders, and its policies are not more likely to be censored," their study says.
These findings are contrary to conventional understandings of the population history of rhesus macaques and to previous genetic studies [ 40].
