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On the contrary, a high level of indebtedness now afflicts US households.
On the contrary, by protesting against the grotesque manipulation of the modern game, they are trying to take it back.
To be sure, there is nothing wrong with doctors spending time working and training overseas; on the contrary, practicing in a variety of health-care systems is critical for producing experienced, well-rounded physicians.
On the contrary, Russia’s loss of superpower status is completely unacceptable.
And Morocco, contrary to Algeria, does not suffer from the curse of oil.
But the Turks are the Ottoman Empire’s heirs, and the Arab world, contrary to Western hopes, may not be ready to exchange its current frustration for the humiliating admission that it requires its former rulers’ model to progress toward modernity.
On the contrary, it was no secret that substantial risks – such as a pick-up in inflation and faster-than-expected interest-rate hikes – were lying in wait.
On the contrary, sulfur emissions have been reduced over the last few decades in both Europe and North America, owing to a desire to promote health and counter acidification; and China, too, seems to be taking measures to reduce sulfur emissions and improve the country’s terrible air quality.
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the fundamental problem in the Middle East is not intervention by the West.
On the contrary, the real problem is that, for all their dabbling, the Western powers seem capable of neither war nor dialogue.
On the contrary, most forecasters expect 2005 to be weaker than 2004, with growth insufficient to eliminate the "job deficit" - the gap between the number of jobs needed during the past four years to provide employment for new labor-market entrants and the actual number of jobs created.
On the contrary, some of these managers, such as former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who now chairs a Gazprom subsidiary building a pipeline under the Baltic sea, are helping to expand Russia’s oil-based imperial designs over Europe.
On the contrary, globalization – the immense flow across borders of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, services, currencies, commodities, television and radio signals, drugs, weapons, emails, viruses (computer and biological), and a good deal else – is a defining reality of our time.
However, quite apart from the evidence to the contrary, intuitively this makes no sense.
On the contrary, these threats will expose its disunity.
To wait for the big threat is no answer to NATO’s problems, on the contrary, it would be a fatal error.
On the contrary, the more uncertainty there is about the scarcity of a resource, the greater the price swing, which only compounds the planning difficulty.
On the contrary, because effective responses to poverty require a sustained focus on social movements, cultural and environmental concerns, and political leadership, attention to human well-being can play an important part in reducing material disadvantage.
On the contrary, they have tended to make matters worse.
On the contrary, good luck provided the rope with which the country ended up hanging itself.
There is no reason to believe that India will promote the spread of nuclear fuel, technology, or weapons to any other party or country; on the contrary, it is committed to preventing this.
On the contrary, he might be anticipating that the two countries’ strategic standing will change very quickly if the US does not do more to preserve its global primacy.
On the contrary, its approach to historical valuation is shared by cities worldwide.
It’s a fiscal issue, the typical German economist says, and monetary policy will not help; on the contrary, activating it will only make matters worse.
On the contrary, the Allies chose to maintain the pact and to extend it to numerous Russian neighbors.
There is also no reason to believe (contrary to the regime’s insistence) that the Brotherhood would emerge victorious from a democratic transition.
On the contrary, most surveys and hard economic indicators point to a strong upswing, with the one country that is in really serious trouble, Greece, representing only 3% of the area’s GDP.
On the contrary, his ascendancy has made the newspaper business more relevant than ever.
On the contrary, beyond weakening relations with America’s closest allies, Trump’s tactics have increased tensions with Russia, thereby increasing what economists call the “shadow price” of national security.
For starters, contrary to popular belief, world growth hasn’t been especially disappointing so far this decade.
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