Sentence examples for fairly contrary from inspiring English sources

Grimaud grew up in Aix-en-Provence and was, by her own admission, "a fairly contrary child".

Monthly trends, on the contrary, are fairly substantial.

To Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com, it proves Goodell spreads his wrath evenly and fairly, despite suspicions to the contrary.

Contrary to some fairly widespread opinion, the media is not out to "get" Wenger but you cannot turn muck into honey and a simple analysis of Arsenal's current place makes grim reading.

On the contrary, it may fairly be said to have borne away the palm".

Dirty Sixth The contrary evidence, however, is fairly deafening, with music at just about every spot in town.

Plant species, on the contrary, can thrive in fairly homogeneous grasslands as long as their specific habitat requirements are met.

On the contrary, it should be fairly simple and straightforward.

"The trust says in his [Ling's] letter that it is committed to 'challenge discrimination and treat everyone fairly and impartially' – all evidence to the contrary.

"It's a fairly significant problem and [the findings are] contrary to the ideological assumption that work is a universal, automatic path out of poverty," he says.

The method was fairly straightforward: Unless there was evidence to the contrary, mixtures of chemicals that act on the same organ were to be treated in an additive manner using what they called the "additive mixture" formula (ACGIH 1963).