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

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

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 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 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 popular belief, Crux is not opposite to Ursa Major.

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

Contrary to popular belief John Hugenholtz cannot be credited with the design of the Zandvoort track, although he was involved as the Nederlandse Automobiel Ren Club chairman ( the Dutch Auto Racing Club ) before becoming the first track director in 1949.

Contrary to the popular belief that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, Chomsky goes so far as to argue that ' it's the essence of democracy.

Contrary to popular belief, " Dr ." is not part of the name but just an academic title like " Mag.

Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.

Contrary to popular belief conservation groups are not against expansion in general, instead they are concerned with efficiency with resources and land development.

Contrary to a popular misconception that software is either free or commercial, they are unrelated traits, since free software can be commercial and proprietary software can be non-commercial.

Contrary to the common mainstream academic and popular use of the term, Communist states have sometimes been referred to as " fascist ", typically as an epithet.

Contrary to popular belief, the company did not go bankrupt.

Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.

( Contrary to popular misuse, the word " colt " refers to a young male horse only ; " filly " is a young female.

Contrary to a popular misconception — that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep — contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness.

Contrary to popular belief, Marx does not base his LTV on what he dismisses as " ascribing a supernatural creative power to labor ", arguing in the Critique of the Gotha Program that:

Contrary to popular belief in American and British circles, the Luftwaffe was not " the hand maiden of the German Army ".

Contrary to popular opinion, libertarian socialism has not traditionally been a utopian movement, tending to avoid dense theoretical analysis or prediction of what a future society would or should look like.

Contrary to popular belief, the loa are not deities in and of themselves ; they are intermediaries for a distant Bondye.

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

Contrary to common belief, inbreeding does not in itself alter allele frequencies, but rather increases the relative proportion of homozygotes to heterozygotes.

Contrary to popular belief, nobody would have been vapourised by the burst-the detonation occurred at over 500 m altitude and the fireball did not reach the ground.

Contrary to popular belief, freeborn girls were as likely to receive formal education as boys, especially during the Roman Empire — unlike the lack of education, or purely manual / technical skills, proper to a slave.

Contrary to popular belief, the maquiladora program was in place far before NAFTA, in some sense dating all the way back to 1965.

Contrary to this belief among the anti-evolution movement proponents, evolution of life forms beyond the species level (" macroevolution ", i. e. speciation in a specific case ) has indeed been observed multiple times under both controlled laboratory conditions and in nature.

Contrary to popular belief, even the larger species, such as the reticulated python, P. reticulatus, do not crush their prey to death ; in fact, prey is not even noticeably deformed before it is swallowed.

Contrary to popular belief, the college did not grow out of student revolts and experimentation, but out of a desire to provide a " more flexible, individualized approach to a rigorous liberal arts education ".

Contrary to metals with incomplete d-shells, metallic bonds in copper are lacking a covalent character and are relatively weak.

Contrary to popular folklore, there is no evidence to support the claims that singing bowls contain " 7 metals " ( Joseph Feinstein, 2011 ).

Contrary to an advertising campaign suggesting that Levi Strauss sold his first jeans to gold miners during the California Gold Rush ( which peaked in 1849 ), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870s.

Contrary to the tradition of decorating the upper house in red and the lower house in green, established by the House of Lords and House of Commons in the United Kingdom, Vermont reserves the state colors of green and gold for its upper house, the Vermont Senate.

The gold gauntlets, calfguard and chestplate remain as well as the ' P ' insignia on his chest, but the cape is absent ( In the Ultraforce cartoon, it was Contrary who suggested to him changing form ).

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 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 Estonian, š and ž are not considered distinct letters in Finnish.

Contrary to brownian motion, which is the diffusion of a single particle, interactions between particles may have to be considered, unless the particles form an ideal mix with their solvent ( ideal mix conditions correspond to the case where the interactions between the solvent and particles are identical to the interactions between particles and the interactions between solvent molecules ; in this case, the particles do not interact when inside the solvent ).

Contrary to critics beliefs this model is used to determine how to proceed in situations that are detrimental to the environment in the way that is least damaging and has the fewest lasting implications .< ref name =" Diversity "> Silveira, Stacy J.

Contrary to floating-point arithmetic, in a logarithmic number system multiplication, division and exponentiation are easy to implement but addition and subtraction are difficult.

Contrary to the focus of conventional warfare, territory gained, or casualty counts are not of overriding importance in counter-guerrilla warfare.

Contrary to such views, Abraham Robinson showed in 1960 that infinitesimals are precise, clear, and meaningful, building upon work by Edwin Hewitt and Jerzy Łoś.

Contrary to Professor Behe ’ s assertions with respect to these few biochemical systems among the myriad existing in nature, however, Dr. Miller presented evidence, based upon peer-reviewed studies, that they are not in fact irreducibly complex.

Contrary to what his many detractors have claimed, Rousseau never suggests that humans in the state of nature act morally ; in fact, terms such as " justice " or " wickedness " are inapplicable to prepolitical society as Rousseau understands it.

Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.

Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is the system of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections etc.

Contrary to the views of his colleague and friend Alan Turing, whose work at The University of Manchester prepared the way for the first modern computer, he denied that minds are reducible to collections of rules.

Contrary to the popular belief that more women are repeat victims, and thus more victim-prone than men, actually men in their prime ( 24 to 34 year old males ) are more likely to be victims of repeated crimes.