Sentence examples for directions counter from inspiring English sources
"Paul wasn't afraid to go in directions counter to what everyone else thought was the right or only thing to do," said Vinton Cerf, a vice president at Google who was a colleague and longtime friend of Mr. Baran's.
Deoxygenated blood from the heart flows in the lamellae in a direction counter to that of the water flow across the exchange surfaces.
East of South Island, New Zealand, the Southland Current is an observed western boundary current that flows in a direction counter to the demands of Sverdrup flow and counter to the direction simulated in nonlinear global flat bottom and reduced gravity models.
It is the first planet discovered to have a retrograde orbit, meaning it orbits in a direction counter to the rotation of its host star.
In the simulations, the same sort of equatorial migration also worked for the single-impact tilt scenario, but that scenario came with one important and disqualifying caveat: the moons orbited in the wrong direction, counter to Uranus's rotation.
This argues strongly for the arrow of causation to be in the direction counter to what the authors propose.
The soldiers meanwhile, head in the opposite direction, to counter the threat while the majority of termites affect their escape.
If the State Department and White House are guilty of anything, it is trying to spin the story in the other direction to counter that criticism -- perhaps to the point of misleading the country.
One of major reasons these Democrats support such right-wing legislation is not because AIPAC is all-powerful, but because there is so little pressure in the other direction to counter it.
The ipsilateral IO can cause an ipsilateral rotational moment about the spine and the ipsilateral EO can create a moment in the opposite direction to counter the spine moment.
Its sternly prescriptive directions were countered in our time by the more descriptive "Webster's Dictionary of English Usage," by E. Ward Gilman, teased in this space for decades as "Dr. Roundheels".
