Sentence examples for to contrary from inspiring English sources
adjective
Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
"But he's become more willing to listen to contrary opinions".
Although Steinbrenner has the last word, he listens to contrary views.
And perhaps he really wanted to — contrary to his image, he may endorse Mughniyeh's bloodthirsty ways.
The artistic extravagance and lavish festivities promoted by Florence's leading citizens gave rise to contrary reactions.
Governments, however, do not need to give equal time to contrary ideas when they are speaking for themselves.
But they may owe their popularity to contrary forces -- to our contempt for the private and the personal, both of which we seem bent on defiling.
For years, insisting that the second-ranked quarterback on the draft board is far superior to the top-ranked quarterback has been the go-to contrary opinion for the draftnik in a hurry.
See Bartha 1999 for an approach to contrary-to-duty conditionals and to defeasible conditionals layered over a branching time framework with an agency operator.
Moreover, only antecedent counterfactual target clauses confirmed the processing ordering, but not consequent counterfactual target clauses, suggesting the counterfactual conjunction yàobúshì in the beginning position of a sentence led to contrary-to-fact thinking.
