Sentence examples for expectations to the contrary from inspiring English sources

"That's why I applauded the Obama administration when, despite expectations to the contrary, they decided to retain military commissions.

One change not being made, despite expectations to the contrary, is the dismissal of Sean F. Orr, the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Interpublic.

Despite expectations to the contrary, prosperity did not dampen nationalist fervour, and it only took an accident involving a military vehicle to start the uprising.

Mrs. Clinton's political advisers like to argue that many voters who meet her walk away remarking that she is, expectations to the contrary, a warm and genial person.

A year ago, NASA boosted two 1.0 models and a 2.0 version, which de-orbited after a week; PhoneSat 2.4 went up last November and remains circling despite expectations to the contrary (though its comms systems went erratic in January).

And Mr. Clinton's support for him reinforces a reality of this post-impeachment White House: the president, despite expectations to the contrary, is not holding grudges as he rushes in the final months of his presidency to leave a legacy that has nothing to do with Monica S. Lewinsky.

On the contrary to expectations, very low bubble-point pressure values of investigated membrane contactors were obtained, which is attributed to the presence of irregularities in the membrane wall.

In Basra and Sadr City last week, the Iraqi security forces performed below our expectations, and contrary to the predictions of many, including many of your commanders.

Contrary to expectations, the pH of the growth solution did not affect the performance of the bilayer actuators, but the pH of the cycling solution was important.

Contrary to expectations, the results followed the pattern in December, when the PP won 123 seats, with 29% of the vote, the PSOE 90 seats with 22%, Podemos 69 seats and 21%, while Ciudadanos took 40 seats with 14%.

But, contrary to expectations, the actual day to day realities will probably seem pretty tame to most people.