Sentence examples for which would be counter from inspiring English sources

You do not have to be a card-carrying member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which would be counter to the American dream that promises the poor immigrant the chance to become anything she desires, up to president of the United States -- sorry, Arnold.

The programming component will be retained, rather than moving toward a more black box approach to computing, which would be counter to the recommendations of BIO2010.

The median infant age for attending such a group in this trial was 5 weeks, which would be counter to the fact that receiving this information was associated with breastfeeding at 10 days in our study.

Retail analyst Nick Bubb said: "Maybe Mike realised that he would end up getting too much and would thus squeeze out the staff, which would be counter-productive.

The influx of H+ into the parasite via the Na+-ATPase would constitute a significant acid load, which would be countered by the H+-extruding V-type H+-ATPase.

Among females, the regression models revealed that a willingness to date without parental approval (which would be directly counter to traditional cultural expectations) was shown to be associated with a greater willingness to both kiss and have sex on a first date.

If so, then the restriction of reporter activity to GSCs in response to IR is ATR dependent, which would be somewhat counter intuitive since ATR normally activates p53.

And using white wine -- instead of red, which would be expected -- counters the sauce's heaviness, and so does Ms. Lynch's choice of chicken stock rather than beef stock as a braising agent.

She was the first American model to become famous for her – then illegal – fetish and S&M photographs, many of which would be sold under the counter to customers who could not, in puritanical America, legally buy erotic photography in stores.

So it seems reasonable to infer that whoever it is, they can deploy counter-measures which would be technically simpler than making an ICBM in the first place.

If such a clause had been included, which would have created a vague principle that could be invoked against any specific right, it would have been creating a Counter-Constitution, which would be used by men in power to bypass the Constitution itself.