Sentence examples for in the contrary from inspiring English sources

"To straighten a bent stick," Michel de Montaigne wrote, "we bend it in the contrary way".

What was more, he had begun to dislike Netanyahu's style as Prime Minister: he found him arrogant, condescending, uninterested in the contrary advice of his elected ministers.

But imagine attempting such a thought experiment in the contrary fashion, and rolling it back several thousand years to reveal a world with no churches, mosques, or temples.

Our index traces where some cities could be if authorities took the right decisions or if, in the contrary, they rested on their laurels.

But unlike Duchamp, he is actively interested in his art partner -- the spectator -- and in the contrary social currents in which the spectator swims and drowns.

Their 96-88 victory at the TD Waterhouse Center kept both teams going in the contrary directions they were in when they entered the game.

In fact, the contrary seems to be true.

They cannot simply be ignored.Sanctions have helped bring about no democratic transition in Asia on the contrary.

(In fact, on the contrary, domestic drug abuse is on the rise in Mexico).

They thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was to prove the contrary in 1943".

"In fact, to the contrary".