88 Quotes About Contrary


  • Author Rebecca MacKinnon
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    Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

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  • Author Talat Masood
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    This shows the extreme contradictions of the American policy in the region and indicates that it is only looking after its own national interests, which are completely contrary to the interests of other countries.

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  • Author Isaac Newton
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    The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

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  • Author Leo Nikolaevich
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    There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

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  • Author Marie Okabe
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    The secretary-general also welcomes the prime minister's statement that such practices are completely contrary to Iraqi government policy.

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  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
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    Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

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  • Author Alan Page
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    To invalidate the Sentencing Guidelines system would also be contrary to the express sentencing policy of this state of maintaining uniformity, proportionality, and predictability in sentencing,

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  • Author Elliot Perlman
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    I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

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