Sentence examples for precisely contrary from inspiring English sources
The point is, if this is permitted, then there is no limit to the ability to extend terms, and that is precisely contrary to what the framers had in mind when they worried about this problem originally.
This is precisely contrary to Weber's expectation that explaining a phenomenon renders it insignificant, inert for the purposes of evaluating one's place in the universe or contributing to one's sense of oneself.
From these assumptions, it was a short step to the inference, precisely contrary to what Darwin had posited of animals, that human beings were driven exclusively by ruthless self-interest, moderated in the case of females by maternal dispositions and perhaps by paternal concern in the case of males.
And we chiefly feel scorn toward "anti-aging medicine" that is based on presumptions precisely contrary to evolutionary biology, just as we feel toward creationism.
This is genome-wide data and unambiguous; 148 genes support my thesis on trees, precisely contrary to Koonin and Martin's assertion [ 170] – none, of course, support inorganic compartments as ancestors.
Considered in their entirety, the ballet scenes suggest precisely the contrary.
As Mr Prodi complained that too many national vetoes have been preserved - and urged the IGC to whittle them down this winter - Mr Blair struck precisely the contrary note.
Beard and others, they wrote, "assure us that we have never had it so good — that colonial Americans were primitives and ignoramuses in matters gastronomic… The truth is almost precisely the contrary.
On the contrary, precisely if you are the first in your family to stay on past school leaving age, precisely if your family doesn't have social capital, precisely if you don't ahve parents to put in a word for you in a difficult job market, you need the assurance of rigorous qualification and, if at all possible, core academic qualifications.
On the contrary, precisely because the left's so weak, attempts to reconstruct a progressive alternative should begin with those who reject bigotry, not those who embrace it.
On the contrary, precisely as an American, what I see is a bureaucratic and legalistic euphemizing and cleansing of a technique historically employed by some of the world's most abusive regimes.
