Sentence examples for seems contrary from inspiring English sources

Solitary play seems contrary to the spirit of game.

It seems contrary that this play is so half-baked.

It seems contrary to human nature that this good luck and restraint can continue.

This seems contrary to the advice previously offered in the Guardian and elsewhere.

What action does Ms. Simpson perform in the music video that seems contrary to the original "Dukes of Hazzard" show?

It's going to exist, but we're going to hide it?" That, he said, "seems contrary to the vision of journalism".

In approving reliance on a statute's "motivating policies," Moskal v. United States, 498 U. S. ___, ___, seems contrary to Hughey v. United States, 495 U.S. 411, 422.

Newton's 3rd law seems contrary to our intuition because on Earth there are lots of sources of friction - providing much easier methods of propulsion!

Also to be contemplated is that present-day disks had already formed by redshift 3, though that seems contrary to the standard cosmology.

On its face, the program seems contrary to the plain text of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which regulates domestic national security wiretapping.

That, too, seems contrary to the ethos of the Met as a place of refuge, a sanctuary in a city that also pledges to be one.