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It's just offensive and it's contrary to basic American identity and values.

It's a sad fact that people think we are the ones running a negative campaign, which is not the case at all. When we put something out there, we always document it. Contrary to public belief, all of our ads are pretty much based in fact.

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Its action is aimed on the contrary at stopping foreign interference in the country and allowing the Lebanese to recover their full sovereignty and independence in line with UN resolution 1559.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life, ... Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

It's been an unsafe scenario. To have the building in its current state is an embarrassment to the community, contrary to economic development of our downtown.

Congress must not withhold incentives to rebuild from any employer that provides good jobs and tax revenue, if we want to revive the economy of this region, ... Contrary to the biased view of some, the gaming industry must be treated as fairly and equally as any other business when Congress develops legislation to help the Gulf Coast region rebuild.

Congressman John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest.

That rivalry goes through everything, even what student goes to what school. Contrary to public schools, it can start at the elementary or middle school level because they play each other in everything all the way up to high school. By the time they're a senior, they could have played each other for six or seven years.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Sweet talks has the ability to attract one and all. On the contrary vitriolic speech keeps people away.

It's important that we understand when talking about the relationship between actions of foreign policy and the notions of international law we have the sense of what actually happens practically, which is contrary to most academic views.

It's contrary to the way the court decisions have come down already. It is an extraordinary step for this Congress to be taking.

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

It will be good challenge because we don't mind the turf, contrary to what a lot of people think,

They can sign all the confidentiality agreements they want. You can't have an agreement that goes contrary to the public-records law.

These two facts are significant because they indicate methodology, logistics and personnel for this kind of operation ? operations which are totally contrary to the spirit and the text of the European convention on human rights.

This is contrary to the view that the markets are inefficient and provides substantial opportunities for farmers to gain additional profits through marketing.

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.

That's contrary to what the police department has informed us, ... I don't know that it would be appropriate to have a complete ban. If it does have that effect, we need to take another look at it. That was not the council's intent.

That's confidential information. That's one thing if the committee members want it. It would be contrary to our policy that we entered with the union. It's contrary to the collective bargaining agreement.

Armed robbery and hijacking have endangered humanitarian workers assisting over 450,000 vulnerable people living in the area. Moreover, credible information points to the use of hijacked vehicles for military purposes by these armed groups. This is unacceptable and contrary to international humanitarian law.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

The fact that you, as secretary general of a political party, made remarks contrary to the fact in a forum such as a news conference can mislead the public and is very regrettable. I strongly protest and demand that (you) retract the remark and apologize.

I'm not standing for election and it is contrary to the role of judges in our society to say that this judge should go on the bench because this is his or her position and those are the positions they're going to apply,

I indicated that the government wants dialogue with the commission to clear the air on a broad range of issues as it pertains to Zimbabwe. The commission is now in the habit of refusing audience with Zimbabwe, and this is contrary to the rules and principles of natural justice.

Instead, the president's subsequent budgets have increased funding for all of these programs. The country can meet the goal of cutting the deficit in half and still invest in key programs for vulnerable Americans, and claims to the contrary aren't supported by the facts of recent budget history.

Instead of antonyms and analogies, which depend on vocabulary, we want to measure the ability to understand reading passages, so we would ask students to indicate the sentence in a passage where the author presents an argument contrary to his thesis, or find the two sentences that are equivalent,

In our system of government an accused person is presumed innocent until a contrary finding is made by a jury after an opportunity to answer the charges and a full airing of the facts, ... Mr. Libby is entitled to that opportunity.

In the short term, there may be people who think that pushing democracy is contrary to our interests.

In this case, the people of the United States and most of Adams County believe that we should preserve our national treasure intact and not bring in a business that is so contrary to the values of sacrifice, hard work and integrity that characterize our nation and the soldiers who fought here.

Investors were relieved that contrary to expectations, Labor Day ended without any violence.

His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

The passions often engender their contraries.

If he is certain of that, his information is contrary to what has been communicated to me and contrary to what I've briefed you," ()

I am waiting to hear somebody in the Prime Minister's Office put out some information that is contrary to what we're reading in the papers now,

I consider it an all-out war. We've got to do everything we can to win, within the law. Full-scale mineral exploration and extraction is contrary to the long-term economy here.

I do not at this point know absolutely if it is true, but it may well be. If it is true, it is disgusting and contrary to our values and to our laws. I know that my military colleagues are taking it extremely seriously and there will be a very full and complete investigation.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

The marketing program is not breaking the bank, contrary to other reports today,

The truth is, Touchstone (which produces the show) decided to go in a different direction, and they bought out my contract. Anything you've heard that's contrary is all false.

The House managers have decided that they need to talk to Ms. Lewinsky before making a recommendation to the Senate to depose her. The action of the House managers is not unusual. It is not unfair, and it is not contrary to the rules of the Senate.

The focus of confusion is that, since the ICI does not represent shareholders, we must somehow be contrary to their interests. But at the ICI, we believe fund management companies' interests must be aligned with those of shareholders.

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.

The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.

The FT seems to be enjoying some buoyant ad gains to date, which is contrary to trends we've seen from The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere in the newspaper industry.

The Commission's position on this point is contrary to both the letter and spirit of the law.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is. I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

The lettering below the logo on the flag at No 42 is so small as to be almost illegible, and whilst this flag is contrary to the council's guideline due to that lettering, the level of departure is not significant and approval is recommended. The flag at No 36, however, has much larger lettering, and is unacceptable.

The loss of a child is totally different because it's contrary to nature, ... When it happens, you question everything you've ever known.

The JBU discipline process occurs in response to specific behaviors demonstrated repeatedly over time ... (and) that are contrary to the biblical values expressed in the community covenant.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

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.

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests

Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

All statutes to the contrary are revoked.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Without contraries there is no progression.