Sentence examples for running contrary from inspiring English sources

His advocacy of African tradition extended to religion, running contrary to his father's Christianity, though it's tempting to see Fela's "Shrine" as a version of his father's pulpit.

Running contrary to the notion of full-blown maturity, however, is the fact that her father, Stefano, has come with her every step of the way.

Pope Benedict XVI has sparked fury among secular and gay rights campaigners after he attacked equality legislation in Britain for running contrary to "natural law" and restricting the freedom of religious communities.

The sheep mentality that applies to much of the rest of the country, where anyone with a strongly held opinion running contrary to the party line is told to shut up and get in line, has no place here.

Presented with weaker arguments running contrary to their own, Americans were likely to solidify their opinions, Dr. Nisbett said, "clobbering the weaker arguments," and resolving the threatened contradiction in their own minds.

Hume goes on to say that whatever we feel in us running contrary to an impulse to act that we mistake for reason must be something else, such as a calm passion (e.g., a general appetite for the good, benevolence, or aversion to evil) (T 417 18).

This would run contrary to regulators' wishes.

This absolutely runs contrary to that purpose".

This runs contrary to basic notions of democracy.

The message runs contrary to everything romcoms tell us.

The device runs contrary to experience, wouldn't you say?