6 sentences with 'contrary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word contrary and other words derived from it.
• « On the contrary," the doctor assured her. It was very professional. Worry when you lose those good feelings. »
• « This was totally contrary to their usual tactics, and the dictator Fabius Maximus who insisted on it in 217 BC was derisively nicknamed "the Delayer" by his detractors in the Roman government despite his obvious success. »
• « However, when James II (r. 1685 - 1688) came to the throne, even his former supporters the Tories were alarmed when he began to appoint Catholics to positions of power, contrary to existing laws which required all legislators and officials to be Anglican. »
• « Another view is that communism is somehow contrary to human nature and therefore doomed to failure, regardless of circumstances or context. »
• « A university degree does not guarantee that its holder is already an educated man. On the contrary: it means that for the graduate the door has been opened to a state of perpetual ignorance and thus to a lifelong hunger: hunger for more ideas, for more knowledge, for more good thoughts, for more challenges, for more of all this. »
• « It is also denied that pottery was invented to replace stone vessels for food supplies. The Mureybet vessels are so small that they would not have served these purposes; on the contrary, it is logical to think that they were used to contain perfumes or cosmetics. »