I think, all evidence to the contrary, she was pleasantly surprised when I turned out to be a studious, introverted, bashful child. |
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Despite all reports to the contrary it's still possible to get sunny, rainless weather in the Bay of Islands. |
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Ranking Democrats say, to the contrary, they are not working with him on the big bond or his annual address. |
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Long ago I was told by an older and worldly wise relative that lying was a dying art, in spite of apparent evidence to the contrary. |
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The claim that doing harm is no worse than allowing harm flies in the face of powerful intuitions to the contrary. |
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All claims to the contrary, we must learn to live with partial truths even within revealed religions. |
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It is the concern of the bank that prices have bombed along despite expectations to the contrary, he said. |
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But to the contrary, the circuit may improve the accuracy of the system by not allowing for autogenetic false alarms. |
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Our game plan is to go the distance, in spite of persistent speculation to the contrary. |
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So if you can cite some evidence to the contrary, then that would be interesting. |
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There is an increasingly persuasive body of evidence and learned opinion to the contrary. |
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Some consider this of negligible importance, but sound evidence exists to the contrary. |
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And while it may be tempting to take the apocalyptic view, there is ample evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite the evidence to the contrary, the Lord Mayor was not too concerned by what he was told. |
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Delusions are false beliefs which are held despite evidence to the contrary. |
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The insurance policy should be taken out in the name of the shipper and the should be endorsed in blank, except when stipulated to the contrary. |
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Despite speculation to the contrary, the compensation issue is of limited significance. |
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It seems too intellectual to keep up any blusterous pretense to the contrary. |
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There is enough recorded evidence to the contrary even in the writings of some captains of slave ships. |
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In 1981, the FDA declared spirulina ineffective for weight loss, and no subsequent studies to the contrary have been published. |
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Imagine, apparently conclusive evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, that a very few gifted individuals are genuinely clairvoyant. |
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It also claims that despite indications to the contrary, Gateway insisted that retail market was strong. |
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Though much has been theorized to the contrary, such subcultures are not de facto resistant to a dominant ideology. |
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Of course, your skin thickens with time, but all armour is penetrable, no matter how much a journalist protests to the contrary. |
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Yet the atmosphere pervading their writings and the very style of the fine arts and music in that period speak to the contrary. |
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Two weeks later, USDA claims the animal was a downer despite an already clear line of established evidence to the contrary. |
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This would be mere speculation on their part, however, in view of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. |
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The fact that the US has declined to provide conclusive evidence to the contrary naturally bolsters such conjecture. |
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And no one, except the activists getting pleasurably hysterical over margaritas and mango salsa, gives any credence to claims to the contrary. |
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The theological views held by the Lutheran Church to the contrary, the tombs assert the contiguity of the community of the living with the dead. |
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Defence counsel replied that he would be calling evidence to the contrary in regard to that charge. |
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Unfortunately, a lot of police precincts, what they do is tend to focus on a primary suspect and then disregard any evidence to the contrary. |
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But, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, there are clear connecting threads that identify the underlying ideological presumptions. |
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However, there is a presumption in favour of the right of States to enter reservations unless the instrument expressly states to the contrary. |
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There is a self-styled anti-globalisation movement that pretends to the contrary. |
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Despite its protestations to the contrary, the Second Circuit must have doubted whether we are really at war. |
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Democracy and human rights are, despite their protestations to the contrary, in practice a long way down the agenda here. |
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A territorial division, of course, is exactly what the guerrillas want, despite all protestations to the contrary. |
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And the loud protestations of the party leaders to the contrary just do not hold water. |
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They continue to claim, despite UEFA's protestations to the contrary, that their pitch will soon be unsuitable for European competition. |
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A person in the legal secretariat to the Law Officers deposed to the contrary. |
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It assumes harsh punishments deter serious crime when there is much evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite efforts to the contrary on the part of some grantors, the most striking side effect of foreign grants is divisiveness. |
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Despite urgings to the contrary, Russell shies back from dirty pool, yet may be forced into playing it. |
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I think Europeans would tend to support it, without U.S. pressure to the contrary. |
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Many experts claim that they do not occur in the Olympic Mountains, although there is some equivocal evidence to the contrary. |
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Both have continued in their claims to have Welsh antecedents despite further new documentary evidence to the contrary. |
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The wafer fabrication plant apparently did not meet either criterion, despite IDA claims to the contrary. |
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But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother. |
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For each of the above points and many others I haven't mentioned that the positions held by the main protagonists of this war, up until recently, was to the contrary. |
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Sanger felt, to the contrary, that it was the nonacademic masses who tended to be annoying. |
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We journalists become terribly vulnerable when confronted with potential stories that we desperately and unquenchably desire to be true, despite evidence to the contrary. |
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The problem is that there is an enormous amount of both direct and circumstantial evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite appearances to the contrary, squirrels are actually pretty mean. |
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One of the things that irks me a little bit about some commentary is that people often question reports without having any evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite some recent speculation to the contrary, he now looks certain to be given the time and space to deliver on a venture that he can justly claim as his. |
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Despite repeated protestations to the contrary by administration officials, such critics describe its foreign policy as being based almost entirely on dollar diplomacy. |
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Whatever he was doing, he contrived to give place to the contrary pattern. |
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All evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, they'd fight their way back. |
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Despite aural evidence to the contrary, Mr. Bhatt, however, insisted the noise was a figment of my imagination. |
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Although it has been widely assumed that ruminants, by virtue of rumen bacteria, do possess adequate phytase activity, there is evidence to the contrary. |
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Evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, England still is the countryside, and any threat to its conservation is a scandal because it threatens Englishness itself. |
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The DSM-IV says that the frotteurist and the fuguist, despite all conceivable arguments to the contrary, have lost their marbles, period and end of discussion. |
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They want to believe that everything is fine, and if necessary they'll halfway convince themselves it is, even when evidence to the contrary is staring them in the face. |
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He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him. |
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The two remain in touch, but friends say the close rapport they once enjoyed has been destroyed, despite their public protestations to the contrary. |
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They've been denying it existed despite obvious evidence to the contrary. |
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Those instincts were obviously sound, despite evidence to the contrary. |
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None of the correspondents has provided any evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite evidence to the contrary, many people have swallowed this lie. |
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But ISIS continues to hold major swaths of territory in and around Kobani, despite widespread media reports to the contrary. |
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The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, despite government assertions to the contrary, also receives a pasting as it is perceived as disadvantageous to US pharmaceutical firms. |
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Then Morris provides some eye-opening evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite his protestations to the contrary, he appears to be guilty. |
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They are not purely ceremonial, despite tourist perceptions to the contrary. |
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However, despite the repeated erroneous claims to the contrary, MDM is a not a mobile security solution. |
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This is while the International Atomic Energy Agency reports and the US National Intelligence Estimates issued so far point to the contrary. |
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In the absence of proof of either of those facts, every intendment is to the contrary. |
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He was convinced he was a great singer, statements of others to the contrary. |
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Today, the term mumpsimus has been used to describe when someone holds on to old beliefs despite scientific evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer. |
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Barring judicial decisions to the contrary, Sutcliffe will spend the rest of his life in Broadmoor Hospital. |
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Essentially, the judge or jury is unconvinced that the suspect is innocent, but has insufficient evidence to the contrary. |
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Despite possible lore among graduate students to the contrary, most faculty members dread having to fail a student in the qualifyings. |
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All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion. |
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According to the Supreme Court of New York, substantial evidence to the contrary is required to overcome a presumptively valid assessor's determination of value. |
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The SFA stood by this proclamation, despite pleas to the contrary by the Scotland players, supported by England captain Billy Wright and the other England players. |
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The majority of additions to the contrary are often rejected. |
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Considering the exotic nature of black holes, it may be natural This led the general relativity community to dismiss all results to the contrary for many years. |
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Swift followed up with a pamphlet issued on 30 March claiming that Partridge had in fact died, which was widely believed despite Partridge's statements to the contrary. |
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Despite appearances to the contrary, the Army of the Empire did not constitute a permanent standing army that was always at the ready to fight for the Empire. |
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It seemed to the uptown routiners that aurality had its own set of advantages, and in the absence of strong evidence to the contrary it is hard to argue against them. |
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He offers examples of the Abbasid struggle first to treat the Umayyads as enemies, then to uphold the legitimacy of their caliphate to counter Alid claims to the contrary. |
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By reading Spinoza through Kant, Jacobi thereby also read Kant through Spinoza, arguing that Kant was, despite his protestations to the contrary, a Spinozist. |
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Since the early 20th century scientists have been trying to prove the ivory-bill woodpecker is extinct, dismissing claims of sightings despite many reports to the contrary. |
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