Sentence examples for the contrary position from inspiring English sources

Sean Cusack, 29, a chemist by day, was building an audio rack and teaching an electroluminescent wiring class, and took the contrary position.

At my daughter's middle school, some teachers take the contrary position, reasoning that their error raised a student's hopes; the extra points compensate him for his disappointment and reward him for his honesty.

McGwire, who never received any official sanction for steroid use, is an in-between case: I would not have punished him for "outing" himself, when so many other players of his generation used steroids and got away with it, but I can understand the contrary position.

(Agnosticism here favours the contrary position).

In urging the contrary position, that God is incorporeal.

But there have been noteworthy thinkers who argued the contrary position, along with others who clearly felt the pull of the contrary position even while resisting it.

The contrary positions mean the shareholder has no real economic stake in the company anymore, but can still vote the shares it holds.

Why the Green Economy Coalition does not believe Rio +20 is an abject failure Thursday June 21 11.45 Oliver Greenfield, the convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, offers a contrary position to the view of the majority of NGOs that Rio +20 has been an abject failure.

The act of taking an outrageously contrary position for the simple purpose of courting attention is frequently cited as the lowest form of online endeavour.

Rather than engaging in one-to-one personal combat, instead take the more diplomatic tack of just assuming a contrary position, for the sake of discussion: Say, "Yeah, there are a lot of people who feel like you do - but the people on the other side would say that a vote for this man is a vote for smaller government, a better school system, etc., etc".

But the US Congress has taken a contrary position – in its enthusiasm to be as pro-Israel as possible.