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No longer is the region regarded as America’s “backyard”; on the contrary, the continent has arguably never been so united and independent.
These initiatives will give the signal to Latin American leaders that, despite appearances to the contrary – including the latest Summit of the Americas – the region has not been completely neglected by President Bush and the US.
On the contrary, the share of the black market economy has been increasing by such a speed that, according to some economists, the real economy (composed of both the "white" and the "black" economy) actually grew over the last two years, notwithstanding an official decline in GDP.
On the contrary, secularism – whatever its particular legal framework – and democracy are intertwined.
And, contrary to popular belief, it is the public sector that is leading the way toward effective solutions.
On the contrary, presiding over the eurozone's breakup must be one of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's worst nightmares.
Meanwhile, emerging-market commodity exporters failed to take advantage of the windfall and implement market-oriented structural reforms in the last decade; on the contrary, many of them embraced state capitalism, giving too large a role to state-owned enterprises and banks.
On the contrary, these findings should make us more skeptical about relying on our intuitions.
There is less consensus about parties that incite hatred and are committed to destroying core democratic principles – especially because many extremist parties in Europe go out of their way to emphasize that they are not against democracy; on the contrary, they are fighting for “the people.”
On the contrary, as the experience in the 1930s showed, the easiest way to derail an already-feeble global economic recovery is to unleash a protectionist trade war.
On the contrary, ensuring that Turkey remains a stable democracy – by responding both to domestic developments and to deteriorating conditions in the Middle East – is in Europe’s long-term interest.
But the move failed to contain M2 growth; on the contrary, M2 grew faster last year than in 2012.
More efficient health care does not presuppose higher inequality; on the contrary, it may reduce inequality.
Attempts to argue that the Taiji dolphin hunt is contrary to international law have so far been unsuccessful.
On the contrary, most of the wealth created since the 2008 crisis has gone to the rich.
On the contrary, her possible Republican opponent in 2009, Senator John McCain, while a war hero, is also a man who represents to many Americans the new soft values.
On the contrary, better and smarter aid is critical to financing the post-2015 development agenda.
On the contrary, such a refusal “should be considered an acceptance of the human condition, or a wish to avoid the application of a medical procedure disproportionate to the results that can be expected, or a desire not to impose excessive expense on the family or the community.”
Convinced that he is right, and incurious to hear contrary arguments, Bush felt free to undermine the rule of law in America with warrantless domestic surveillance, erosion of due process, and defense of torture, in addition to misleading the public and refusing to heed expert advice or recognize facts on the ground.
On the contrary, there are lessons to be learned from the demise of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and even – perhaps especially – Czechoslovakia, which negotiated its break-up without violence.
Indeed, contrary to the widely held assumption that evolution takes millennia to manifest itself, recent evidence suggests that its effects can become visible as quickly as in a few generations.
On the contrary, it is to uphold the liberal tradition in which many Jews continue to believe.
On the contrary, 30 years of financial deregulation, made possible by capturing the hearts and minds of regulators, and of politicians on both sides of the aisle, gave a narrow private-sector elite – mostly on Wall Street – almost all the upside of the housing boom.
On the contrary, it would be like providing massive blood transfusions to a patient suffering from vast internal hemorrhaging.
On the contrary, it demands a fundamental rethink of business models that facilitate and even reward hate speech.
On the contrary, all international negotiations – on global warming, financial regulation, and nuclear disarmament (despite the efforts of US President Barack Obama and former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to conclude a bilateral nuclear-disarmament agreement) – launched since the end of the twentieth century have failed.
Contrary to popular perception, the public-sector wage bill is only of marginal importance.
On the contrary, children are often beaten by family members if they do not provide the daily wage expected of them, or by their bosses when they are inattentive or make a mistake.
There appears to be more than one reason why, on the contrary, confidence came roaring back.
Inspired by Yousafzai, they were far from quiescent; on the contrary, they were vocal in their demands for the same rights that boys enjoy.
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