Example sentences of "contrary to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the High Court yesterday , Mr Justice Simon Brown rejected claims by the group , Save Britain 's Heritage , that the decision in June of the then Environment Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , to grant planning permission was contrary to stated government policy , and should be quashed . |
| 2 | In a letter to the Irish premier in 1947 , while an extensive health bill was going through parliament , the bishops ‘ pointed out that to claim such powers for the public authority , without qualification , is entirely and directly contrary to Catholic teaching on the rights of the family , the Church in education , the rights of the medical profession and voluntary institutions ’ ( Irish Independent , 12 Apr. 1951 , quoted Whyte 1980 : 143 ) . |
| 3 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 4 | These data , as presented , are difficult to interpret because ( i ) fewer crypt intraepithelial lymphocytes than surface intraepithelial lymphocytes ( per 100 enterocyte nuclei ) were found ; ( ii ) no detectable response to gluten/gliadin challenge , contrary to other findings , was observed ; and ( iii ) data were analysed and presented in terms of total specimens counted rather than numbers of patients from whom all such specimens derived . |
| 5 | In a six-point statement , Mr Yeltsin 's spokesman , Vyacheslav Kostikov , said Mr Zorkin 's position was ‘ hasty and unilateral ’ and was ‘ contrary to legal ethics . ’ |
| 6 | It may well be contrary to modern judicial philosophy that a defendant should be liable in the absence of fault but this involves as its consequence that an innocent plaintiff should bear the loss . |
| 7 | Improving welfare benefits to the workless — however contrary to current government policy — would undoubtedly be an important step . |
| 8 | Contrary to current guidelines for asthma management , ‘ step up ’ in maintenance therapy after an attack was often not practised . |
| 9 | By the spring of 1527 , Henry had convinced himself that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was contrary to divine law and canonically invalid , and had resolved to put Catherine aside and to marry Anne Boleyn . |
| 10 | Subjects therefore had to obey the laws of their earthly governors , in whatever they commanded that was not contrary to divine law . |
| 11 | Dunleavy also wishes to distinguish between different levels of the bureaucracy in explaining why , contrary to budget-maximization accounts , privatization has met with so little resistance from senior officials . |
| 12 | Contrary to prior expectations the current Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , carrying with it the prospect of increased prices for Venezuelan oil , had reportedly had little influence on the negotiations . |
| 13 | As a starting point , crime is defined as actions which are contrary to criminal law . |
| 14 | Contrary to Unix-on-the-desktop sceptics , the fastest growing sector will be the Unix PC marketplace with a revenue CAGR of 28% over the period . |
| 15 | Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists . |
| 16 | Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) . |
| 17 | Here a spacing of 4m to 6m is advisable and , contrary to normal practice , each member should carry a couple of loose coils in the hand which can be cast away in the event of seeing a slip . |
| 18 | They held , contrary to Roman doctrine , that prayer for those already dead was ineffective ; repentance before death was all-important , as was also forgiveness of those against whom resentment had been harboured . |
| 19 | There appeared to have been a possibility that , contrary to correct practice , financial information had passed between the two men . |
| 20 | Contrary to distant impressions , keeping ferocious dogs is not exactly novel in South Africa . |
| 21 | In cases of this sort , inferences arise to preserve the assumption of cooperation ; it is only by making the assumption contrary to superficial indications that the inferences arise in the first place . |
| 22 | Contrary to influential theories in primatology and ethology , hunting among the Chewong can not be described as an aggressive or violent activity ( see the Introduction , this volume , for discussion of problems in connection with the definition of these terms ) . |
| 23 | Contrary to persistent rumour , Kylie Minogue 's first film , The Delinquents ( Warner West End , 12 , from Boxing Day ) is not the flaccid cods-up we might have expected . |
| 24 | Contrary to Japanese hopes , however , the fall of Britain and China apparently imminent in 1941 failed to materialize . |
| 25 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 26 | Contrary to European perceptions , it takes months rather than centuries ( as European emigrants to the United States demonstrated ) . |
| 27 | The Court decided that although the hours thresholds did amount to indirect discrimination , they were not contrary to European Community law since they could be ‘ objectively justified ’ on policy grounds . |
| 28 | Some at Community level , with others at national level , would be subject to scrutiny and investigation by EC institutions , to ensure that national policies were not contrary to European objectives . |
| 29 | It is even persuasively argued by people such as George Delft , in Humanising Hell , that the manufacture and possession of nuclear weapons is itself contrary to international law . |
| 30 | Moves to extend the death penalty to new offences and to execute juvenile offenders are contrary to international human rights standards , including the American Convention on Human Rights , and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights . |