Sentence examples for contrary who from inspiring English sources

But in the face of such weighty, if fallacious, testimony to the contrary, who am I to persuade my elderly friend to ignore his gut when it comes to thinking about the national debt?

Collectors came to him from around the city, mostly men, often retired, fussy and strange, a little contrary, who liked the smell of solvents and enjoyed talking shop and seemed to believe an unwritten life was stubbornly buried away in the dusty machines they brought in for restoration.

It is the UN forces on the contrary who destroy the community, which is saved by the cooperation of South and North Korean soldiers.

"Anyone who is really contrary, who says something, that is really truthful and goes against certain things is going to find themselves blacklisted," he added.

I'm looking for "people" - ordinary people who do not know they are ordinary, or at the contrary, who hope that their singularities will get them out of the plebs.

Those, on the contrary, who fear Francis has already gone too far prefer African Cardinal Robert Sarah, a 70-year-old native of Guinea, while others may bet on the Holy See's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

This week he said Guantánamo "is contrary to who we are, it is contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop".

"But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law and contrary to who we are".

It's contrary to who we are".

"On the contrary," Schneidermann (who had voted for Houellebecq) replied.

On the contrary, people who support their parents are also more likely to care for grandchildren.