Sentence examples for rather contrary to from inspiring English sources

The main point is that a minority Tory government is actually a big worry for the City, rather contrary to Ken Clarke's dire warnings before the election.

But Go Ape certainly isn't cheap – an hour of defying death costs more than £100 for a family of four – and that expense does run rather contrary to the all-inclusive spirit in which parks were originally founded.

It seems rather contrary to an idea of a Constitution with three branches that the executive would be free to do whatever they want, whatever they want without a check.

This is rather contrary to self-directed learning where PBL stands for.

Rather, and contrary to my quickie boast, California beat us.

This is rather unlikely (contrary to Beisbart, 2012) because thought experiments and computer simulations seem to involve different kinds of simulation and have different aims.

During her absence from the public view, her popularity grew rather than faded, contrary to the junta's hopes.

When faced with losses, individuals may seek to take more risk rather than less, contrary to what traditional economic thought might suggest.

In addition, the results show that another property of neutrinos related to how they interact with matter, known as the "mixing angle," must be large rather than small, contrary to what physicists believed until quite recently.

The astronomer Johannes de Sacrobosco wrote, in his The Sphere of the World, "the eclipse was not natural, but, rather, miraculous and contrary to nature".

Higher species richness in temperate climates is rather atypical and contrary to the usual pattern observed in plants where tropical groups generally tend to have more species than temperate relatives [ 6, 23].