Sentence examples for counter to experience from inspiring English sources

There are going to be a million deaths.' But with poverty and instability as natural to the nation as voodoo - now recognised as a state religion - efforts to reverse the damage run counter to experience and expectation.

The characteristics that set gold apart from other metals, and even from its neighbour in the Periodic Table, platinum, are the high electronegativity, with the resulting highly covalent character of the Au H and Au C bonds, and the order of bond strengths: Au H > Au C ≥ Au O, which runs counter to experience with other transition metals.

Mr. Kim plans to franchise his counters out to experienced sushi chefs who will be responsible for conforming to his strict standards.

The belief that palliative care hastens death is counter to the experience of physicians with the most experience in this area".

On climate change, his insistence on a voluntary approach alone runs counter to the experience of the past decade, when greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to rise despite a string of voluntary initiatives to reduce them.The best way forward, on fuel cells as on climate, would be through the use of taxes.

The idea that Prozac and its later-arriving relatives are dangerous drugs runs counter to the experience of most psychiatrists and researchers.

In my book, which is a polemical memoir and not an academic research paper, I attempt to trace how I adopted attitudes and assumptions that often ran counter to my experience.

At the same time, he said, since the idea of a husband and wife having different primary residences runs counter to everyday experience, it is likely that a court confronted with the issue will closely examine the arrangement.

The third option that the cognition is eternal runs counter to our experience which tells us that cognitions are momentary.

Natural selection, like most complex scientific theories, runs counter to common experience and therefore competes usually unsuccessfully with intuitive ideas about inheritance, variation, function, intentionality, and probability.

This idea, which runs counter to real world experience, seems to have mesmerized Wall Street at its highest levels.