Sentence examples for fundamentally contrary to from inspiring English sources
Torture is wrong and fundamentally contrary to American values.
"Doping is fundamentally contrary to the spirit of the sport," reads the World Minigolf Sport Federation's rule book.
"Suspicionless mass retention of communications data is fundamentally contrary to the rule of law … and ineffective," the Latvian official argues in a 120-page report, The Rule of Law on the Internet in the Wider Digital World.
As has recently been reported, the competition didn't screen participants for performance enhancing drugs – a standard expectation for sports covered by the Australian Sports Commission, which considers doping "fundamentally contrary to the spirit of sport".
Believers in a strong unitary executive branch think the president has the power to remove even independent commissioners – at least when they act in a way that is fundamentally contrary to the will of the executive (and, in this case, contrary to the submitted comments of nearly 4m Americans).
The workshop is a process, an unscripted performance space, a regime for forcing people to do two things that are fundamentally contrary to human nature: actually write stuff (as opposed to planning to write stuff very, very soon), and then sit there while strangers tear it apart.
Solitary confinement is fundamentally inhumane, extremely costly, contrary to the public good, and often unnecessary.
But more fundamentally, the researchers have shown that, contrary to prior belief, a class of materials called indirect-band-gap semiconductors can yield practical lasers.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is fundamentally a political conflict, and thus, contrary to what Ms. Robinson said, has no place on the agenda of the United Nations conference on racism.
"Using executive action to fundamentally alter our immigration laws is patently contrary to the system of checks and balances detailed in the Constitution.
While a serious challenge for the left and for progressive politics, it would be a mistake to see authoritarian populism as something fundamentally new and aberrant revolutionary force that is contrary to democracy.
