Grimaud grew up in Aix-en-Provence and was, by her own admission, "a fairly contrary child".
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.
"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.
This view is widely described as 'fideist', but ought more fairly to be called arational fideism, or, where commitment contrary to the evidence is positively favoured, irrational or counter-rational fideism.
Contrary to common belief, European slave traders were fairly well informed about various African ethnicities, leading to slavers' targeting certain ethnic groups which plantation owners preferred.
Such an assertion runs contrary to the significant but (for many common adult cancers) fairly modest improvements in survival following the use of adjuvant radiation and chemotherapy designed to eliminate disseminated cells after surgical removal of the primary tumour.
Contrary to stereotype, they were hardly feral: well turned-out, and fairly polite, they even issued the odd sentence that revealed traces of social conservatism.
These findings suggest that contrary to what may be believed in many quarters, men in traditional settings are fairly susceptible to the influence of their significant others – males and females.
Contrary to the myth, Temple was not all washed up at 12, and made a fairly easy transition on screen from cute child to pretty teenager.
Contrary to Grassley's claim that "the destinations were almost exclusively international," there is a fairly even mix of domestic and foreign (including Canadian) cities.
The list is fairly predictable: it includes many of the same countries that have raised firewalls against Internet content that they deem contrary to national interests.
