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Example sentences for: contrary

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The paper points out that contrary to the current tax cut/surplus debate, this strategy does not require congressional approval.
Twenty years before Masters and Johnson, for example, he discovered that, contrary to the then-dominant view, the great majority of women experienced not vaginal but clitoral orgasm.
Tha Doggfather offers 250 pages of evidence to the contrary" (Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Washington Post Book World ). (This site includes news, audio clips, and a discography for Snoop Dogg.)
Section 808(2) states that, notwithstanding section 801, "any rule which an agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rule issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest" shall take effect at such time as the federal agency promulgating the rule determines.
Despite instructions to the contrary, Hamlan insisted on calling his family before leaving Saudi Arabia because he had begun to have second thoughts after acquiring the visa.