Sentence examples for Contrary from high-quality English sources.

• But what are contrary awareness-episodes?

• “To the contrary, a simple Google search would have revealed a great deal,” he said, including a 2004 op-ed he wrote in which he criticised the Kremlin.

• And whatsoever Lawes bind In Foro Interno, may be broken, not onely by a fact contrary to the Law but also by a fact according to it, in case a man think it contrary.

• “With approximately 700,000 DACA recipients working for all sorts of businesses across the country, terminating their employment eligibility runs contrary to the president’s goal of growing the U.S. economy.”

• On the contrary, the discussion of false belief is the most obvious way forward.

• The contrary movements of the concupiscible power are of the second type, towards contrary ends (sense-good and sense-evil).

• According to Malebranche, this is due to the fact that God could always will some event contrary to what the creature allegedly brings about.

• He regarded emotions as the acts of two moving powers, the concupiscible and irascible, both with several types of reaction divided into contrary pairs.

Use Contrary in a sentence.

• Motion does not take place in substantial change, that is, coming-to-be or passing-away because there is nothing contrary to substance (Phys. 225b10–11).

• This is why: “Nothing takes on its contrary but rather cedes when the contrary comes; but passivity increases with the increase of activity” (PT: 284).

• Wigner to the contrary notwithstanding, Bell did not establish the impossibility of a deterministic reformulation of quantum theory, nor did he ever claim to have done so.

• He insists that although it is far from surprising to be told that sensible things have contrary properties, he would be astonished to learn that forms have contrary properties.

• Bolzano replies that, contrary to the opinion of important logicians (and contrary to Husserl's criticism (1939, p. 326) directed against Bolzano's alleged “empiricism”), the validity of these two rules does not depend on experience, but that they are

• “On the contrary, sir,—on the contrary,” said Louis XVIII., “this affair seems to me to have a decided connection with that which occupies our attention, and the death of General Quesnel will, perhaps, put us on the direct track of a great internal conspiracy.”

• If I say God is not unjust, the word is when joined to the particle not signifies the action contrary to affirming, namely denying, in which I view these ideas as repugnant to one another, because the idea unjust contains something contrary to what is contained in the idea God.

• In his dictum, “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory”, Bosanquet (1888) encapsulates the widespread tendency for formal contradictory (wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to a contrary.

Contrary sentence examples

• Since a belief entails the denial of every contrary hypothesis, this closure principle in effect says that I cannot be justified in believing p unless I am justified in denying every hypothesis contrary to p — that is, unless I can rule out all contrary hypotheses.

• He sang it until the other children heard and laughed, too; and the crosser Mary got, the more they sang “Mistress Mary, quite contrary”; and after that as long as she stayed with them they called her “Mistress Mary Quite Contrary” when they spoke of her to each other, and often when they spoke to her.

• The man has been arrested on suspicion of encouragement of terrorism contrary to section one of the Terrorism Act 2006; dissemination of terrorist publications contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006; and collection of information contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

• “On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently prearranged sentence.