Sentence examples for has acted contrary from inspiring English sources

Furthermore I believe a strong case can be made that he has acted contrary to the tenets of Islam and can be ostracized from the community of believing Muslims.

Of course, the Bush torture program is not the first time in American history that our government deliberately has acted contrary to our values in time of war.

The government has power to dissolve regional councils that have acted contrary to the constitution or have violated the law.

"They've acted contrary to the Olympic charter, and they don't seem to care," Levinstein said.

Mr. Klindworth's suit says that by putting his assets into the risky securities, his broker had acted contrary to his instructions.

The party's south east chairman Roger Bird said the councillor had acted "contrary to party requests and continued to court the media".

Friends of the Earth (FoE) has defended its record on lobbying against shale gas fracking, after accusations from one of the companies involved in drilling that it had acted contrary to its charitable status.

In his homily last November, Archbishop Weakland said that "we Catholics" had acted "contrary to God's law" in dealings with Jews in the past, that the Jewish community was harmed as a result, and that by preaching "that the Jewish people were unfaithful, hypocritical and God-killers," Catholics had reduced Jews' human dignity.

They stand until we rewrite them," Weintraub said.Kollar-Kotelly's ruling struck down 15 regulations that the six-member FEC had crafted to implement BCRA after its passage in 2002, concluding that the FEC had acted contrary to Congress' intent and "severely undermined" the nation's campaign finance law.Reps.

Although the pope assented to the condemnation, the West believed that the Emperor had acted contrary to the decrees of Chalcedon.

Certainly, by 1527 he had convinced himself that in marrying Catherine, his brother's wife, he had acted contrary to Leviticus 20 21, an impediment the Pope had never had (he now believed) the authority to dispense with.