Sentence examples for the contrary principle from inspiring English sources

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The contrary principle does not hold true: elaborate marriage ceremonial is quite compatible with high divorce rates.

Basil Kennett, writing in 1820, describes the "Avete vos" response as a cruel jest: "[W]hen they would gladly have interpreted it as an act of favour, and a grant of their lives, he soon gave them to understand that it proceeded from the contrary principle of barbarous cruelty, and insensibility".

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Design that will resist pressure from the "powers" (wherever located) who would like to "subject" order to their own interests or points of view, to assert, on the contrary, principles of freedom, coexistence, solidarity and equality, though still leaving space for change (Nel.lo 2012).

Mani, also called Manes, or Manichaeus, (born April 14, 216, southern Babylonia died 274?, Gundeshapur), Iranian founder of the Manichaean religion, a church advocating a dualistic doctrine that viewed the world as a fusion of spirit and matter, the original contrary principles of good and evil, respectively.

April 14, 216 Babylonia 274? Khūzestān, Iran Mani, also called Manes, or Manichaeus (born April 14, 216, southern Babylonia died 274?, Gundeshapur) Iranian founder of the Manichaean religion, a church advocating a dualistic doctrine that viewed the world as a fusion of spirit and matter, the original contrary principles of good and evil, respectively.

On the contrary, those principles call for a different rule, one which does not yield such aberrant results in asbestos exposure cases.

Despite some language to the contrary, the principles had given many people the strong impression that race-consciousness was tantamount to unconstitutionality.

On the contrary, its principles were clearly at work in the development of the computer industry after World War II, and they drive competition in the industry today.

On the contrary, the principles of that case have been recognized and enforced in a very large number of cases, notably in those we have referred to as belonging to the second class of cases above mentioned.

On the contrary, the reflection principle and the GSDE approach underestimate average velocity, but reproduce macrodispersion better for high contrasts.

On the contrary, the operational principle of the criminal justice system now seems to be that the excessive conviction of the innocent is a necessary and palatable fact.

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