Sentence examples for counter to the initial from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, counter to the initial hypothesis, river cities tend to change less than non-river cities after targeted disturbance of the systems.

The judgment of the Court, issued on 12th July 2012, ran counter to the initial conclusions set out by Attorney Kokott, by taking a rather positivist approach to the principle of proportionality within the European acquis communautaire.

As commented by Geels, and underlined in the current article, 'this asymmetry runs counter to the initial MLP-formulations and the emphasis on multi-level alignments' ([16], p. 23).

NEW YORK -- On Tuesday night, State Department officials said they never concluded there were protests leading up to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, comments that ran counter to the Obama administration's initial explanation that a demonstration provoked by an anti-Islam video preceded and contributed to the violence that night.

Recent reports say that since Sonae's rebuff one of the country's leading banks, the sacrosant Banco Espirito Santo, is preparing a counter bid to the initial $12.6 billion offer.

The key, Mr. Shanker said, is to get salespeople comfortable with silence after their initial approach, which runs counter to the traditional model of following a customer around and offering information about a product the minute the customer looks at or touches it.

Wearable tech has seemed on a fairly straightforward path throughout the course of its initial development – from the step counter, to the fitness band, to the smartwatch.

Regardless of their initial intent, they have become de-facto agents of the marketing behemoth whose philosophy runs exactly counter to the hippie ideal that they espouse.

Interestingly, and counter to our initial predictions, the direction of change in tuning width was not dependent upon the different acoustic environments of CROSS canaries and zebra finches.

This finding runs counter to our initial assumption that parental use of the Internet to seek health information would be related to primary care utilisation, either in a positive or in a negative way.

Counter to our initial predictions, both brain regions were differentially active during both steps.