Sentence examples for counter to expected from inspiring English sources

Like a lot boys with interests counter to expected gender roles, they can get targeted for being "girly" or "gay" (whether or not these things are true).

Her succession of male friends, one of whom had fathered her child outside wedlock, suggested promiscuous female sexuality again, strongly counter to expected norms of behaviour.

This was counter to expectations: they had expected levels to rise.

But it is naive, wrong and in the long run counter-productive, to expect the cost of this aid to be met out of drug-company profits.

While it might be counter-intuitive to expect great athletic wear to come from a Japanese retailer that is better known for its casual sportswear and low prices, Uniqlo has unexpectedly muscled in on the turf of Nike and Adidas.

On the other hand, different dispositions with two consecutive porous electrodes and one or two counter-electrodes satisfactorily lead to expected reactions; good yields are reached even with relatively unstable intermediates.

On the one hand, consideration and stimulation exerted a small effect on task interdependence (.10), as expected, but not on goal interdependence, which was counter to what we expected.

Of course, there's a large body of existing research showing that women tend to be more communal and collaborative in the workplace and can be penalized if they aren't, since it runs counter to what's expected of them.

These tabs are reportedly scheduled for a late 2012 release as a counter to Apple's expected 7.85-inch iPad mini.

Counter to what most expected in a globally warming planet, the Southeast of the U.S. has been getting colder during winter and spring months instead of warmer.

Transcription termination in our constructs is generally less effective with the addition of the dsred sequence downstream, counter to what we expected if the Xrn2 'torpedo' model was a major contributor to termination.