Sentence examples for for a contrary from inspiring English sources

Merely to raise questions, without evidence for a contrary "theory," falls far short of science.

But for a contrary view, here's my comrade Tim Jonze's hilarious piece on why he hates Get Lucky.

Benton's paintings are still in demand and for a contrary, "cranky, embittered" man he is still remembered by a world of people who loved him, respected him and were fascinated by him as a great artist.

The Supreme Court issued a sweeping declaration of constitutional liberty for gay men and lesbians today, overruling a Texas sodomy law in the broadest possible terms and effectively apologizing for a contrary 1986 decision that the majority said "demeans the lives of homosexual persons".

On the Sublime, by the Roman-Greek known as "Longinus," was to become influential in the 18th century but for a contrary reason: when decorum began to lose its sway encouragement could be found in Longinus for arousing elevated and ecstatic feeling in the reader.

See Hindess (2001) for a contrary view.

For too long, a contrary opinion was seen as a wrong opinion.

If you promote yourself as a good person, but then get called out for behaving in a contrary way, you're not as advertised -- people lose faith.

For several reasons, a contrary school of thought began to develop in opposition to the use of blue light-filtering IOLs [ 2– 8].

As shown in Fig. 10, the angle α for e = 0.5 is a slightly smaller than that for e = 0.3 but a contrary trend exists for β.

Nevertheless, in plants, there may be a contrary striving: for integration, or 'oneness', to compensate for this branching of organs and the tendency to fragment.