Sentence examples for quite contrary from inspiring English sources

Shortages forced farmers off the land, quite contrary to de Valera's philosophy.

But a fatwa on never entering government again would be quite contrary to what liberals believe.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary — we get bored so we get married... On this broken merry-go-round".

His dreamy work pursues goals quite contrary to the constant concern for reality that characterised both Monet and Degas.

It is evidently agitation of terrorism quite contrary to the purpose and nature of the Berlin International Film Festival".

"There is quite a lot of payment by local authorities for payment by the minute, which is quite contrary to the wellbeing principle of the Care Act.

There'd be all those alternative pathways to the official ones and to those that made Londoners proud: there'd be quite contrary tendencies….

One of Crescas's main works, Or Adonai ("The Light of the Lord"), was quite contrary to Gersonides in its attempt to expose the weaknesses of Aristotelian philosophy.

Even as late as 1980 Jamaican dancehall pioneers Michigan & Smiley adapted one of their biggest hits, "Rub a Dub Style," from the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary".

But why does Clinton still have a grip - albeit for quite contrary reasons - over the country he governed for eight rollercoaster years?

High-energy, queer and unapologetically punk, Pansy Division have just released their ninth album, Quite Contrary, their first since 2009's That's So Gay.