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Contrary in sentence

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Well, actually rats are, in contrary to what most people think about them, rats are highly sociable creatures.
So contrary to what we heard a few months back about how 75 percent of that oil sort of magically disappeared and we didn't have to worry about it, this disaster is still unfolding.
On the contrary, they'll demonstrate that atheists are often the kinds of people who could serve as decent role models for your children, the kinds of people an advertising agent could use to recommend a product, the kinds of people who are sitting in this room.
On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.
It says this: "Unless contrary stipulation, the decease of the ensured person, the ensured capital is provided, in case of predeceasing of the beneficiary relatively to the ensured person, to the heirs of the last, in case of the simultaneous decease of the ensured person and of the beneficiary, to the heirs of the last".
Her answer was quite the contrary.
But, are you so sure that that's going to give you a great career, when all the evidence is to the contrary?
One reason that there's this optimism is because, contrary to what many people have said, most Egyptians think things really have changed in many ways.
Contrary to what many people think, schizophrenia is not the same as multiple personality disorder or split personality.
Anything else would run contrary to our values, it would run contrary to the wishes of the people on the ground, it would run contrary to our interests.
Contrary to what most people think, people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life when you're in prison.
On the contrary, clinical trials are extremely useful tools, and are much needed to address the burden of disease in developing countries.
In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.
And why does good intimacy not guarantee good sex, contrary to popular belief?
You must stop because on the contrary, you will be dead."
On the contrary, they're necessary but they're not sufficient.
Contrary to almost everything that you might get taught at an architecture school, copying is good.
Quite the contrary.
I have faith, for instance, that peace in the Middle East is possible despite the ever-accumulating mass of evidence to the contrary.
On the contrary, I think democracy contributed to the rise of the West and the creation of the modern world.
But I am going to stick with it, because contrary to what we might usually assume, imitating somebody can reveal something unique.
On the contrary, imagine actually that you start from a document, a Venetian manuscript, and you show, actually, what you can construct out of it, how it is decoded, how the context of that document can be recreated.
On the contrary, there's plenty of charm and happiness in tenderness.
Whatever is unfortunate in war, is severely so indeed, and whatever, on the contrary, is called good fortune, is a savage and a cruel good fortune, an ungenerous happiness deriving its existence from another's woe.
On the contrary, it produces pleasure.
And we don't, contrary to some of the stuff that's been printed, we don't sit there and grind out metadata profiles of average people.
Largely because of that visit, I came to understand that, contrary to what I was being told in school, the worlds of art and design were not, in fact, incompatible with science and engineering.
I mean, you've used it in your letter this year, you used basically this argument to say that aid, contrary to the current meme that aid is kind of worthless and broken, that actually it has been effective.
But canceling hope ran contrary to everything that we believed in.
For that reason it evaded detection for some time, But contrary to public belief sometimes these days, once the virus was detected, there was a rapid surge in of support.
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