Sentence examples for decided contrary from inspiring English sources

The latter case decided (contrary to the previous decisions) that a state tax on gross receipts received for actual interstate transportation is prohibited by the Commerce Clause.

"We decided, contrary to our original thinking, that even stuff about Jeb Bush attacking Trump, that's going to go in 'Entertainment,'" Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim told the Erik Wemple Blog after the change.

This war began forty years ago when President Richard Nixon decided, contrary to any sense of democracy and forgetting what happened with Prohibition in the early twentieth century, that drugs were not a matter of choice or freedom, of the market or regulation by the state, but a matter of national security that is must be fought with violence.

We must conclude that positive psychology researchers are either unaware of the rich and broad psychological science that is at odds with their measurement tools or that they have decided, contrary to their public assertions, to ignore the science.

In such cases, inferior courts may decide contrary to justice and law, and appeals may be had to the Supreme Court.

For example, Elena might be responsible for the present chance that she will decide contrary to her ranking of her reasons, because she is responsible for past actions that led to her now having features character traits, desires, and so forth that ground that chance.

For if such judgments are tightly connected to decisions as they must be if it is impossible to intentionally decide contrary to them they are ill-positioned to deliver an understanding of control over decisions.

An employee had complained about the company's policy of sharing the tip jar with shift managers, which, a judge decided, was contrary to state law.

But some of the skeptics have changed their minds and decided that, contrary as it seems to everything they had thought, cancers can disappear on their own.

In this case, the Court decided that, contrary to the opinion of the Bush EPA, carbon dioxide and other GHGs qualified as "pollutants" subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act.

In November it even picked a fight with the Vatican, by ordaining a bishop not endorsed by the pope and forcing some of his bishops to attend.Maybe China has decided that, contrary to its own protestations, it does not really need smooth foreign relations.