Sentence examples for counter to common from inspiring English sources

The move ran counter to common wisdom.

Our research turned up some surprising facts, counter to common knowledge.

Particularly unpopular were the social ukases issued from Brussels, which according to British "skeptics" ran counter to common sense.

It may turn out to be bad to the American people if it tells them to do something that is counter to common sense".

Counter to common black tropes typically recycled in Hollywood (as identified in Donald Bogle's excellent book Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks), Oyelowo's King is a black man in full.

The problem with Frank Sulloway's birth order theory and Dean Hamer's "God gene" theory is not that they run counter to common sense but that the scientific support for them is weak or at best mixed.

Look for checks and counters to common Pokémon.

Only 5% of participants reported that they used ASMR media for sexual stimulation, which is counter to a common perception of the videos found online.

This runs counter to the common trend in other Westchester communities, where students and parents attended the elementary, and even middle schools, but chose private or parochial high schools.

Without mentioning the United States, he implied that the moral contagion that has afflicted market economies ran counter to a common European belief that "liberty, economic progress and social justice advance together, or not at all".

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site that the Arab League's decision in filling the seat was "unlawful and invalid" and "completely counter to the common understanding of the need for a peaceful political settlement in Syria and ways to achieve it".