Sentence examples for is entirely contrary from inspiring English sources

Yet even the least devoted of Austen readers can surely see that a vivacious Fanny is entirely contrary to the source material.

Sir John Sinclair, the head of MI6, hit back at MI5. "It is entirely contrary to the English tradition for a man to have to prove his innocence even when the prosecution is in possession of hard facts," he wrote.

What Bridgman says here is entirely contrary to the common image of his doctrines.

The temperature dependence of the defect-free MoS2 sheet obtained from our simulations with REBO potential is entirely contrary to the work of Zhao etal.

Prediction of a unipolar "Chinese century" is entirely contrary to the post Cold War forecast of multi-polarization.

"These proposals are entirely contrary to the core beliefs of the Liberal Democrats and the position we adopted in opposition.

"Assassination," its former head Sir Richard Dearlove has said, "is no part of the policy of Her Majesty's government" and would be entirely contrary to the agency's ethos.

Its executive editor, Max Frankel, wrote a severe memo to the staff in which he pointed out that conduct such as Scardino's was entirely contrary to the paper's ethics code and that if Scardino were not leaving anyhow "such a clear violation of our policy would have provoked disciplinary action.

Richard Murphy, a tax expert and chartered accountant, said moving the ownership of the estate to Jersey was not unusual for foreign investors but that the opacity of the arrangement was "entirely contrary to the spirit of corporate transparency relating to the beneficial ownership of companies demanded by David Cameron at the G8 in 2013 and reinforced by the G20 in November 2014".

It would also be entirely contrary to the true principles of liberty the liberty of the individual thinking being to form his own ideas which the ancients never understood … The aim of public instruction was to be limited to teaching men and women how to think, not telling them what to think.

While attending Yale, he came to believe that "the Christian Gospel is to be taken seriously, and that needless poverty and suffering on the one hand and special privilege and inordinate power on the other are entirely contrary to its precepts".