Sentence examples for counter to us from inspiring English sources

JACK: It's not counter to us.

Ambassador Hugh Barclay argued strongly that what McDonald's was doing "ran directly counter to US interests in seeing CAFTA-DR implemented as soon as possible".

In the process, Brasilia has often gone counter to US interests on issues such as the war in Syria and the containment of Iran's nuclear programme.

Three hours later, a B.A. rep called us back to the counter to tell us that we had exceeded our original flight's 24-hour check-in window.

"For an NGO to function in those circumstances, it needs to engage in very active forms of humanitarian diplomacy with very localised commanders, and many [NGOs] are concerned that that form of engagement will run counter to, particularly, US counterterrorism laws.

Then she stepped around the counter to show us the place, the dens where fires blazed, the dining room where we were to look for the table that bore our name because that is where we would take all our meals.

We are also grateful to the Dept. of Clinical Immunoloy, Uppsala University, for generously making their cell counter available to us.

These new (and in some cases theoretical) plans run counter to narratives about US departure from the region.

My baby was still showing signs of dehydration when I made it over to the Frontier customer service desk in the Denver airport and pleaded softly with the woman behind the counter to help get us on an earlier flight on another airline so we could get home and, if necessary, to a doctor or hospital.

It seems very counter-intuitive to us, but ancient Greeks, Romans, Jews and later Christians thought about death -- a lot.

Clifford gives some telling examples of how we can induce in ourselves beliefs which run counter to the evidence before us.