Sentence examples for had a contrary from inspiring English sources

She noted that the project had been approved by all state and federal agencies but that the planning board had "a contrary view".

Yet the gathering had a contrary air about it, as if Alice had stepped through the looking-glass and found herself here.

Finally the third legislative reform seemed to have had a contrary effect upon economic efficiency.

In urban dwellers, formal employment of the household cook reduced the consumption intensity of leafy AIVs while increased distance to retail outlets had a contrary effect.

The paternal haplotypes within sire showed, although not significant, that haplotypes of the two sires had a contrary effect on daughter yield deviation for percentage of protein as well.

A modeling sensitivity analysis confirmed that the observed changes to channel geometry and orientation likely promoted flows of water and sediment through the diversion while increases in basin-bed elevation would have had a contrary effect.

You may call such choices contrary, and certainly Mr. Taylor has a contrary mind.

"We had a unanimous decision that we would have a contrary policy," Mr. Cowing said.

Well, that's his opinion, and I don't have a contrary one.

I don't expect that we will have a contrary result.

In Fumaroli's account, the countess emerges as a lovable sourpuss ("I have a contrary spirit, which makes me a disagreeable conversationalist..