The phrase "is at variance with" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that something is different or conflicting with something else. Example: Her opinion on the issue is at variance with her colleague's.
The actual biography of Uncle Ben is at variance with his fanciful new identity.
Forensic evidence is at variance with parts of the officer's account, the inquiry has heard.
Again, this is at variance with the evidence.
It is at variance with the principle that only a pressing social need can defeat freedom of expression'.
"It certainly is at variance with the way it was first reported," said Mr. Carr.
The widespread perception that women over 60 are too frail or fatigued to take much of an interest in fashion is at variance with the facts.
That imposed pattern is at variance with the most urgent human needs; indeed it is responsible for the oppressive conditions from which those unfulfilled needs arise.
Your rosy illusion that Europe is a continent efficiently run by nice social democrats where nasty nationalism and racism is becoming a thing of the past is at variance with political reality.
We believe the verdict given is in contradiction to medical teaching; is at variance with documented cases of wrist-slash suicides; and does not align itself with the evidence presented at the inquiry.
Nonetheless the optimism of the ITEM forecast is at variance with some of the Bank of England's own soundings, which show that small firms are still faced with a tough lending environment.
The forty-four-person Senate Democratic minority, therefore, represents a two-million-plus popular majority — a circumstance that, unless acres trump people, is at variance with common-sense notions of democracy.
