Sentence examples for forward contrary from inspiring English sources

In an earlier case in the Caribbean, he was called on when the court needed an amicus to put forward contrary argument as to why a compromise agreement should not receive the judges' blessing.

Berkshire Hathaway's fittingly named Richline Group is set to launch a new line of wearable jewelry called Ela (Elegant Lifestyle Accessories) later this year, and the billionaire says he believes that technology is the way forward, contrary to a recent downturn.

The judge ruled that the women were not being controlled for gain in their work, despite police putting forward a contrary argument.

The accused has put this evidence into issue and vigorously put forward a contrary case.

The Nets are not pursuing Milwaukee Bucks forward Ersan Ilyasova, contrary to a recent published report, according to a person briefed on the Nets' thinking.

The key part of the statement is thatamounts have been pulled forward or deferred, contrary to Tesco Group accounting policies; there have been similar practices in prior reporting periods; the current and prior practices appear to be linked as income pulled forward grew period by periodFull details will await the Financial Conduct Authority's investigation.

On the other hand, in works by List (1997, [1841]) and Prebish (1949), arguments are put forward that are contrary to the idea that international trade without barriers is always advantageous for those economies involved.

On the contrary, a forward scattering lobe cannot be always identified, since the power is often uniformly widespread in the forward half-space, especially in cases where inner unhomogeneities are present.

Going back to the nineteen-sixties, Milton Friedman and Columbia's Edmund Phelps had put forward the idea that, contrary to Keynesian ideas of the time, there was no long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment — in the jargon of economics, the "Phillips Curve" was vertical.

Yet his book remains uncompromising in its insistence on the divinity of Jesus Christ, and hence in its rejection of arguments to the contrary put forward by liberal Christians, or indeed by Muslims and Jews.Pope Benedict takes issue with a powerful body of conventional wisdom among revisionist scholars of the New Testament.

Do they represent great leaps forward or, on the contrary, does their existence undercut the claim that science progresses?