Sentence examples for directions contrary from inspiring English sources

However, in recent years, television's relationship with the ancient entertainments examined in The Beauty of Anatomy and Executed has developed in directions contrary to those predicted by most commentators.

Using organizations like ALEC and Americans for Prosperity, the Koch Brothers are working systematically to take this country in directions contrary to our basic democratic values and (for example in the case of climate change) contrary to the most vital long-term interests of the American people.

Such systems are designed to detect when the front or rear of a vehicle is sliding in a direction contrary to what the angle of the steering wheel indicates.

Such systems are designed to detect when the front or rear of a vehicle is moving in a direction contrary to what the angle of the steering wheel indicates.

"I told Mr. Meyer and Ms. Bachmann some of my concerns and indicated that I was not going to be able to support something that seemed to be headed in a direction contrary to the state law," David Wettergren, Stillwater's superintendent of schools at the time, told me.

"The intellectual winds of the last three centuries have blown in a direction contrary to belief in miracles," Larson concluded.

How many times in a lifetime do we streak off in a direction contrary to the call we hear in our heart, only to find ourselves tempest-tossed, downcast, and at the point of despair, looking prayerfully upward from an abject situation, resolving to do better if only given another shot, and in the end wind up giving thanks for the tremendous miracle of a second chance!

Interestingly, one out of the 41 L1-associated inversions was caused by two L1 elements, but they were oriented in the same direction, contrary to the expected pattern for RRMI.

The weak statistical interactions observed with GSTT1 present (vs. GSTT1 null) and with GSTZ1 CT/TT (vs. CC) were in a direction contrary to expectation, given what we observed for interactions with THMs [see Supplemental Material, Table 2A,B (doi:10.1289/ehp.1002206)].

The B theme in the key of B-flat major is closely related to the main theme presenting its counterpoint with the bass and the treble melody lines moving in opposite directions (in contrary motion), to each other and then exchanging their melodies (bars 29-30 and 31-32).

We report that nucleolar dominance is a process where NORs of both parental species are modified in the wheat-rye combination (although in opposite functional directions), in contrary to the differential amphiplasty concept as described by Navashin in 1930s [19] affecting only under-dominant NORs.