Sentence examples for instruction to the contrary from inspiring English sources

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These gifts were subtracted from an heir's portion of the estate, unless there was a specific instruction to the contrary.

The results taken together, and reported in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, suggest that hierarchies are pervasively embedded in social minds, all the instruction to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Despite instructions to the contrary, it had been made with peanuts in the crust.

Some players with very definite notions of how they should play were scornful of his right to issue instructions to the contrary, nicknaming him The No10 as a sarcastic snipe at his own insignificant playing career.

Speaking to the Guardian, Waterson said primary ticket companies had little incentive to rein in touts: "In the absence of instructions to the contrary, there are clear financial incentives for a ticket seller to move some tickets into the secondary market in the case of potential sell-out events".

The attention control group received the most training, while the at-home Road Tour training group received the least (despite instructions to the contrary, 37 of them used one or more of the four other programmes in the Insight suite during training, but only 12 did so for >14 min).

For ethical and logistical reasons, cases could not be interviewed immediately after the index self-harm episode and it is possible that a subsequent change in social relationships followed on from the self-harm which was being rated when the CPQ was carried out (despite instructions to the contrary).

Any statement to the contrary is false.

"Do you know about the many instructions that went out to the contrary, the orders to apprehend the perpetrators of crimes?" He said Mr. Markovic could never have spoken freely about such a meeting because it was "absolutely untrue".

Not withstanding any other law to the contrary, no instruction, material, or extracurricular activity sponsored by a public school that discusses sexual orientation other than in scientific instruction concerning human reproduction shall be provided in any public school.

Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the district court to the contrary and remand with instructions to enjoin the challenged provisions of the law.

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