Sentence examples for counter to the notion of from inspiring English sources
This, she believed, ran counter to the notion of change within the system.
Mr. Ryan's modest means run counter to the notion of a man who made a career of bilking the system, Mr. Webb said.
In the Book of John, Mr. DeYmaz points out, Jesus is portrayed after the Last Supper as praying for unity among his followers, a message he said runs counter to the notion of an ethnically homogeneous church.
There was something predestined about things for Cameron this time, no tantalising possibility of failure, which runs counter to the notion of the event, which should at least appear to have some element of spontaneity or chaos to it.
"Counter to the notion of modernity as an all-consuming phenomenon," say the curators, the youngest of the bunch aged 30, "a study of our everyday interiors reveals a vernacular architecture in which it seems that modernity itself is being consumed and absorbed".
Now that a presidential nominee is espousing the kinds of policies that seem to run counter to the notions of equality and fairness Benioff spoke so movingly of at that winter dinner, it seems a good time to see how far Benioff could take those skills.
This would run counter to the notion that war -- and the transnational use of force in general -- must be of limited duration and scope, and that there should be a time of healing and recovery following conflict.
Their findings run counter to the notion that women and children get priority when escaping a shipwreck.
Our divergence time estimates place flamingos among the youngest families of birds, counter to the classical notion of flamingos as among the oldest based on biogeography and the fossil record.
This finding runs counter to the prevailing notion of adaptation to disease that is observed among patient-perspective valuations.
While the concept of path dependency runs counter to the implicit notions of the generic management literature, it does not necessarily dismiss the professional perspective.
