Sentence examples for contrary vision from inspiring English sources

His method of reconciling Muslim belief with twentieth-century values was, in its way, every bit as revolutionary as the contrary vision of Qutb.

It's why John Wesley was able to garner great crowds in his open-air meetings in late 18th-century England: vast, ecstatic audiences which even frightened him with their swooning, groaning, swaying paroxysm, a "contrary vision" and a counter-revolution, as EP Thompson wrote, against the shackles of industrialisation and enclosed lands.

Donald Trump and promoters of unelected school boards would have us acquiesce to a contrary subservient vision.

Contrary to vision and audition, olfaction has to deal with cues that are not arranged along a linear scale.

This is contrary to the vision of a democratic and open city".

It's going to exist, but we're going to hide it?" That, he said, "seems contrary to the vision of journalism".

The Crusader is a 70-ton, classic war-of-attrition artillery system that most reformers scorn as contrary to their vision of a more nimble army.

I think his policies did a great deal of damage to this country, but that being said I think the protesters at Princeton who are embracing this radical political correctness where they are claiming a right to be offended at anything they deem contrary to their vision of the world – that is completely antithetical to the mission of a university".

Though net neutrality is designed to protect nascent businesses' internet speeds from being throttled, The Pauls argue that such government regulation is contrary to the vision of the Founding Fathers.

The series casts young people who, all evidence to the contrary, have clear visions of themselves and their place in the world, and then forces them to interact with other, equally polarizing identities.

Contrary to fanciful visions and popular myth, Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback, was not nearly the dominant player in high school that he was at Virginia Tech or is now in the N.F.L., where he is pushing the bounds of what is possible for a professional quarterback.