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Imposing a code on people – effectively asking them to wear a uniform – runs entirely counter to that.

· Any notion that this President can be "turned" on DACA runs in the face of his persistent attacks on immigrants from the Middle East and on undocumented workers from Mexico, and runs entirely counter to his long-standing antipathy to anything initiated by Barack Obama.

To me, this seemed entirely counter to the entire concept of reading a book, if not patronizing to the romance crowd: basically, blasphemy.

And all the while policies from the Abbott years remain on the books – including things like deep cuts to higher education that run entirely counter to the new economic thinking.

It was a momentous revelation, running entirely counter to law enforcement cultural attitudes that reached back to the days of Eliot Ness's war against bootleggers in the 1920s and that would become the basis for Washington's twenty-first-century counterinsurgency wars.

The response from the authorities has been entirely counter-productive, and has led to punches, batons and pepper spray.

And because the truth is increasingly likely to come to light, it is also entirely counter-productive," says deputy general secretary Kate Pool.

The traits are often entirely counter-intuitive, and attempts to look at it through the lens of common sense can actually drive you further from the truth.

But the reverse happened of what we had expected: AAA tranches went down in price and non-investment-grade tranches went up, resulting in losses as we marked the positions to market.This was entirely counter-intuitive.

They can't have failed to notice from their experience in Wales and in London that partisanship can be entirely counter- productive when it comes from within the party machine.

While President Obama has reversed the entirely counter-productive approach of his immediate predecessor, any serious attempt at UN reform needs to address the issue of financing in a more systematic way.