He returned to Lutterworth, and sent out tracts against the monks and Urban VI, since the latter, contrary to the hopes of Wycliffe, had not turned out to be a reforming pope.

I defy any Person to say I ever Refused an Offer of that Sort: On the contrary, I readily Consented to the only Proposal of Marriage that ever was made me, which was when I was a Virgin ; but too easily confiding in the Person ’ s Sincerity that made it, I unhappily lost my own Honour, by trusting to his ; for he got me with Child, and then forsook me: That very Person you all know ; he is now become a Magistrate of this County ; and I had hopes he would have appeared this Day on the Bench, and have endeavoured to moderate the Court in my Favour ; then I should have scorn ’ d to have mention ’ d it ; but I must Complain of it as unjust and unequal, that my Betrayer and Undoer, the first Cause of all my Faults and Miscarriages ( if they must be deemed such ) should be advanced to Honour and Power, in the same Government that punishes my Misfortunes with Stripes and Infamy.

On the contrary, the lyrics of Faudel's songs are an important social comment, expressing the hopes and frustrations of a whole generation of French-born Algerians growing up in the Paris suburbs today.

In 1965, the demands of the 3rd Congress of Writers of Soviet Moldavia were rejected by the leadership of the Communist Party, the replacement being deemed " contrary to the interests of the Moldavian people and not reflecting its aspirations and hopes ".

Because this advice is a matter of public record, the Queen can not easily take a direction which is contrary to the advice of a majority in parliament.

Articles 2 and 3 note the revolutionary concept that " all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ..." and that " whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

The majority faction said this was contrary to Lenin's concept of democratic centralism, and that disagreements and the SWP should be debated only internally.

Fianna Fáil swept to power at the 1977 general election, with a 20-seat Dáil majority, contrary to opinion polls and political commentators.

In 1986, being the leader of the main party of the new parliamentary majority and accepting the principle of the " cohabitation " with President Mitterrand ( contrary to Barre ), Chirac became again Prime Minister.

In the case of Forest Hill, the contrary is apparent as a majority of the area often has no sidewalks.

After a couple years of internal turmoil, in which the Revolutionary Socialist Current won the majority of the internal elections in the organization, Guardado became more frustrated, publicly attacked the FMLN leaders he didn't agree with, and took actions contrary to decisions the party had made.

According to Professor Bethany Berger, " By patching together bits and pieces of history and isolated quotes from nineteenth century cases, and relegating contrary evidence to footnotes or ignoring it altogether, the majority created a legal basis for denying jurisdiction out of whole cloth.

The National Front and its allies won majorities in all states except Kelantan where, despite earlier reports to the contrary, PAS retained control with a narrow majority of 24 seats to BN's 21 seats.

Furthermore, the majority of men are non-abusive towards girlfriends or wives for the duration of relationships, contrary to predictions that aggression or abuse towards women is an innate element of masculine culture.

The evangelicals secured passage by the church's General Assembly in 1834, of the " Veto Act ", asserting that as a fundamental law of the Church that no pastor should be forced by the gentry upon a congregation contrary to the popular will, and that any nominee could be rejected by majority of the heads of families.

The majority of working physicists discard counterfactual definiteness in favor of locality, since non-locality is held to be contrary to relativity.

The Court ruled by a majority of 8 – 1 that the purported derogation was not authorised by Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights since the measures taken could not rationally be held to be " strictly required by the exigencies of the situation ", and were also discriminatory contrary to Article 14 of the Convention.

Others suggested it was unfair to revoke citizenship from people who held views contrary to the government or majority.

Director Victor Druc's documentary " Aria " ( 2005 ) about the life of Maria Cebotari faced difficulties when screening in Moldova during the Communist administration ( which ended in 2009 ), due to a part in the movie where the soprano self-identifies as Romanian, contrary to the official policy of the Communist government that calls the ethnic majority Moldovan, rather than Romanian See also Controversy over linguistic and ethnic identity in Moldova.

Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from U. S. territories ( since Douglas professed great respect for Supreme Court decisions, and accused the Republicans of disrespecting the court, yet this aspect of the Dred Scott decision was contrary to Douglas ' views and politically unpopular in Illinois ).

In North Africa it was the anti-tank gun which claimed the vast majority of British tanks lost in battle ; German tanks accounted for few British losses, contrary to popular belief.

Testifying on behalf of Schiavo's parents, Hammesfahr told a court that, contrary to majority medical opinion, which stated that Schiavo was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, she was in a minimally conscious state and might recover.

On 17 March 2008 Kaczyński delivered a presidential address to the nation on public television, in which he described gay marriage as an institution contrary to " the widely accepted moral order in Poland " and the moral beliefs of the majority of the population.

Chastising the majority for its circumspection, Blackmun wrote, " We really are being asked to decide whether the Constitution forbids the execution of a person who has been validly convicted and sentenced, but who, nonetheless, can prove his innocence with newly discovered evidence ," and he took note of " the State of Texas ' astonishing protestation to the contrary.

A play that is completely contrary to the standards of decency and moral beliefs of the vast majority of Texans should not be performed using any state resources, especially by an institution of higher learning.

Strong argument to the contrary also remains as to the merit of the majority opinion that “ personal § 1983 liability for the misapplication of a constitutional standard … would guarantee increased litigation .” In Atwater, the dissent further argued that Atwater could not have been characterized as a possible flight risk by the arresting officer, since she was known to him and was an established member of the community and that respondents failed to substantiate any demonstrable merit for the arrest decision.

La Rouërie was Catholic, too, although not practicing, he criticized the Civil Constitution of clergy, and prepared a the manifesto of the association: They can not conceal that the discontent of the people is spreading more and more, as the distance that generally reflects constitutional for the priests, as also the general desertion of their church announce too clear, that the wish of the vast majority of the people is contrary to the laws that divided the church, and destroyed the French clergy, without any reason of public utility.

On the contrary, the majority judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada noted explicitly that " There can be no doubt that the word ' persons ' when standing alone prima facie includes women.

And contrary to what has been said recently, we did not wait for `` outside pressures '' and `` world opinion '' to bring down that Communist government ; ;

Carnegie's criticism of British society did not mean dislike ; on the contrary, one of Carnegie's ambitions was to act as a catalyst for a close association between the English-speaking peoples.

He came from a Christian family, despite accounts to the contrary, as in his writings he tells more than once of an aunt who taught him some principles of the Christian faith, and a father who did the same, as well as mentioning ( once ) his mother doing the same.

Yet, contrary to Marx ’ s famous prediction in the Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, this shift did not lead to " an era of social revolution ," but rather to fascism and totalitarianism.

Henry did not stop her ; on the contrary, he and his army personally escorted her there, before attacking a castle belonging to the rebellious Lusignan family.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

The Tsar perceived the very real threat of a scandal and ordered his own investigations but did not, in the end, remove Rasputin from his position of influence ; on the contrary he fired his minister of the interior for a " lack of control over the press " ( censorship being a top priority for Nicholas then ).

: the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

Their results reveal that Paranthropus boisei contrary to previous theories, did not eat nuts but dined more heavily on C4 plants than any other human ancestor or human relative studied to date.

The new U-Bahn station was being built at the same time as the hotel and actually ran through the hotel's basement, cutting it in half, thus making the construction of both into something of a technical challenge, but unlike the Wertheim department store ( and contrary to several sources ), the hotel did not enjoy a separate entrance directly from the station.

Historian Alan Berger reports that Holocaust deniers argue in support of a preconceived theory — that the Holocaust either did not occur or was mostly a hoax — by ignoring extensive historical evidence to the contrary.

It also does not correspond to the historical reality, since the king's jailers did not hide the fact ; on the contrary, they publicised it.

In another study, published in 2011, Jason E. Lewis and colleagues re-measured the cranial volumes of the skulls in Morton's collection, and re-examined the respective statistical analyses by Morton and by Gould, concluding that, contrary to Gould's analysis, Morton did not falsify craniometric research results to support his racial and social prejudices, and that the " Caucasians " possessed the greatest average cranial volume in the sample.

Text of the amendment echoed the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated the late King James the Second ... did endeavour to subvert and extirpate ... the laws and liberties of this kingdom ... by raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

According to biographer Anderson, contrary to the belief of Roosevelt and other allies, Taft's role as Governor-General in the Philippines did not serve to equip him with the political skills essential for the White House.

Believing that the scientific and intellectual values of new developments far outstripped material values, Ferraris deliberately did not patent his invention ; on the contrary, he demonstrated it freely in his own laboratory to all comers.

They in turn were removed from the room ; however, before leaving, the supreme burgrave ( Adam II von Sternberg ) made it clear that they " did not advise anything that was contrary to the Letter of Majesty ".

Falcone grew up at a time when Sicilians did not acknowledge the existence of the Mafia as a coherent organised group, assertions to the contrary by other Italians were often seen as ' attacks from the north '.

It seems unlikely that the higher expenditures that did not develop due to sprawl in the last 50 years will evolve in the next 20 year, despite predictions to the contrary in The Costs of Sprawl 2000 research.

Although ( contrary to rumour ) she never placed bets, she did have the racing commentaries piped direct to her London residence, Clarence House, so she could follow the races.

Partly due to contrary winds, which kept him in The Hague awaiting passage, he did not arrive in Britain until 18 September.

An exception was the Polish cavalry which retained the lance until 1936 but contrary to popular legend did not make use of it in World War II.

Voyagers round the Horn frequently met with contrary winds and were driven southward into snowy skies and ice-encumbered seas ; but so far as can be ascertained none of them before 1770 reached the Antarctic Circle, or knew it, if they did.