Contrary to a widespread misconception, NEPA does not prohibit the federal government or its licensees / permittees from harming the environment, nor does it specify any penalty if an environmental impact assessment turns out to be inaccurate, intentionally or otherwise.

Contrary to the belief of many who start this sort of diet, this form of dieting is neither healthy nor largely successful in achieving long term weight loss as it provokes a slow down of the body's basal metabolic rate-the body seeks to conserve every calorie and so weight loss becomes increasingly difficult.

Contrary to common belief, functional habits such as chewing are not the main cause of the wearing of teeth.

Contrary to what has sometimes been misreported, the use or importation of chewing gum is subject only to fines ; it is not and has never been an offence punishable by caning.

Contrary to the idea of floral arrangement as a collection of particolored or multicolored arrangement of blooms, ikebana often emphasizes other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, and draws emphasis toward shape, line, form.

Contrary to many frogs, which lay their eggs in water, coquís lay their eggs on palm tree leaves or other terrestrial plants.

Contrary to popular opinion, `` a la mode '' doesn't mean `` with ice cream '' -- it just means, in the latest style.

Contrary to usual organization-position evaluations, the position to which research-staff members report administratively will not necessarily encompass the duties of the research-staff member, therefore, are not necessarily evaluated as highly.

Contrary to these expectations we have found it impossible to obtain the degree of reproducibility one would wish, even with extensive efforts to prepare especially pure reagents.

Contrary to popular belief, they were not great technical innovators.

Contrary to observations with ethers, no apparent change of the reactivity of the chain ends takes place over considerable periods of time in benzene as solvent.

Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.

Contrary to modern usage, the term did not have the extended connotation of overweening pride, self-confidence or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.

Contrary to Apple's belief these would be low-volume, by the end of 1987, 130, 000 such systems were in use.

Contrary to their teaching, the Old Testament scripture shows that God specifically asked for instruments rather than merely tolerating an evil.

Contrary to the dominant lay ministry that existed in the Nephite culture, Nehor established a church in which priests were given a separate social status and were paid for their ministry.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence to support the assertion that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper.

Contrary to popular conception, there is no evidence of a society or economy that relied primarily on barter.

Contrary to the interpretation of the classical writers, the Pannonian Boii attested in later sources are not simply the remnants of those who had fled from Italy, but rather another division of the tribe, which had settled there much earlier.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

Contrary to the modern-day picture of the traditional tyrannical pirate, he commanded his vessels with the permission of their crews and there is no known account of his ever having harmed or murdered those he held captive.

Contrary to the canonical Christian Gospels, and in accordance with the Islamic view of Jesus, this later " Gospel of Barnabas " states that Jesus was not the son of God, but a prophet and messenger.

Contrary to popular belief, rats did not directly start the spread of the bubonic plague.

Contrary to popular belief, the airport is located completely on French soil.

Contrary to popular belief, the Louisiana code does not directly derive from the Napoleonic Code, as the latter was enacted in 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase.

Contrary to a basic understanding of the cardiovascular system, the heart cannot receive enough oxygen and nutrients from the blood it pumps and it must be supplied with blood as if it were any other organ in the body.

Contrary to court jests, clown have traditionally served a socio-religious and psychological role, and traditionally the role of priest and clown have been held by the same persons.

Contrary to popular belief, Crux is not opposite to Ursa Major.

Contrary to Communist propaganda that Chiang was pro-capitalism, Chiang Kai-shek antagonized the capitalists of Shanghai, often attacking them and confisticating their capital and assets for the use of the government.

Contrary to popular simplifications ( present also in some academic texts ), not all CISCs are microcoded or have " complex " instructions.

Taiminen and Jääskeläinen ( 2001 ) reported the case of an otherwise healthy male who started experiencing intense and recurrent sensations of déjà vu upon taking the drugs amantadine and phenylpropanolamine together to relieve flu symptoms.

Among the almost infinite varieties of microorganisms, relatively few cause disease in otherwise healthy individuals.

Therefore all forms and expressions of sexuality, as long as they are otherwise healthy and consensual, are accepted.

Therefore all forms and expressions of sexuality, as long as they are otherwise healthy and consensual, are accepted.

In addition, infections caused by community-acquired strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) in otherwise healthy individuals have become more frequent in recent years.

Thus, the neurochemical alterations which induce psychosis in otherwise healthy people are indicative that the root of the symptoms altered thalamocortical and hippocamalcortical transmission, and corresponding layer 5 / thalamus axis function, altering the crucial ordered cortiocortical layer 3 / 1 and 2 / 3 transmission necessary for rational language self-expression.

Rosemary essential oil may have epileptogenic properties, as a handful of case reports over the past century have linked its use with seizures in otherwise healthy adults or children.

Toxic assets, by increasing the variance of banks ' assets, can turn otherwise healthy institutions into zombies.

Many symptoms may occasionally be noted, at times, in otherwise healthy individuals who do not have thyroid disease ( e. g., everyone feels anxiety and tension to some degree ), and many thyroid symptoms are similar to those of other diseases.

In sanitary living conditions where there is ample food and a supply of clean water, an otherwise healthy person usually recovers from viral infections in a few days.

Thereafter, the parasite rarely causes any symptoms in otherwise healthy adults.

* Category A, UN 2814-Infectious substances affecting humans and animals: An infectious substance in a form capable of causing permanent disability or life-threatening or fatal disease in otherwise healthy humans or animals when exposure to it occurs.

* Category B, UN 2900-Infectious substances affecting animals only: An infectious substance that is not in a form generally capable of causing permanent disability of life-threatening or fatal disease in otherwise healthy humans and animals when exposure to themselves occurs.

The term is therefore not used in medicine for ocular albinism, in which the eye is otherwise healthy despite an obviously red pupil and a translucent pinkish iris due to reflected light from the fundus.

Also, ethical issues of human enhancement arise when reproductive technology has evolved to be a potential technology for not only reproductively inhibited people but even for otherwise reproductively healthy people.

The administration of physostigmine by the IV route in a delirious but conscious and otherwise healthy patient is not without peril.

If properly treated, typical cases of surgically correctable peritonitis ( e. g., perforated peptic ulcer, appendicitis, and diverticulitis ) have a mortality rate of about < 10 % in otherwise healthy patients, which rises to about 40 % in the elderly, and / or in those with significant underlying illness, as well as in cases that present late ( after 48 hours ).

However, the link between genetics and self-harm in otherwise healthy patients is largely inconclusive.

Similarly, when approaching the age of a parent's premature death from disease, many otherwise healthy, happy individuals fall prey to hypochondria.

Although such treatments have been performed for several decades now, the long-term effects have not been studied or declared safe to use on a large scale on otherwise healthy women.

Although this disease is not dangerous to humans and rarely fatal to otherwise healthy animals, it reduces milk and meat production.

The condition usually comes to light after vigorous exercise and usually presents in younger, otherwise healthy people.

Therefore, otherwise healthy babies ( who would weigh more if it were not for the fact their mother smoked ) are born underweight.

In 1999 The University of Chicago reported the first deaths from invasive MRSA among otherwise healthy children in the United States.

In a simple case of acute otitis media in an otherwise healthy person, the body's defenses are likely to resolve the infection and the ear drum nearly always heals.