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But this government has no appetite for meddling with football and it would run counter to its wider policy on business - namely to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to invest in UK PLC.

Some members worried that preserving it "would run counter to the original conception," Mr. Freeman said.

Indeed it would run counter to the very core of the theory.

It would run counter to the principles of the United Nations Charter.

It would run counter to the whole history of the grand jury institution, in which laymen conduct their inquiries unfettered by technical rules.

Should the plan proceed, it would run counter to the strategy being employed by Mitt Romney's team, which has so far avoided such attacks.

Attempts to cut it outright would run counter to powerful forces, as politicians look to schools to solve myriad social ills from obesity to teenage pregnancy to low turnout in elections and to pick up the slack left by poor parenting.

Granting such a right would also create a perverse incentive; since the aim of salvage is to carry out a salvage operation, leaving property in place so that it could be photographed would run counter to this objective.

It warned it would be "unprecedented" in developed economies, and would run counter to the global trend to make national business registry data more easily available to voters at little or no cost.

It would be needlessly divisive, and would run counter to the long history of cultural freedom that this country holds dear".

So that bothered me, because the relationship was very demoralizing at C.I.A. Almost anything that we would do, you know, would run counter to D.N.I., and it was just creating an additional conflict that frankly was not healthy".