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

" Yuri Modin, one of the KGB controllers of the Cambridge Five, agreed: " Contrary to received opinion, it was neither Guy Burgess nor one of our own agents who lured Philby into the toils of the Soviet espionage apparatus.

Contrary to this one or any one opinion of any individual surgeon it has been shown that while there is a learning curve for a hand surgeon who begins to use an endoscopic technique to release the transverse carpal ligament no significant safety issues or morbididty associated with the endoscopic method exist.

Contrary to popular opinion and local lore, Dundas Technical University ( Dundas Tech ) only exists on t-shirts and jokes from Northfield and Faribault natives.

Contrary to popular opinion, Zhao opposed the idea of expanding China's economy by allowing private individuals to purchase stock.

Contrary to prevailing medical opinion at the time, Hunter was against the practice of ' dilation ' of gunshot wounds.

Contrary to popular opinion, the word has no connection to the word gutter.

Contrary to popular opinion, Kolchak was not the author of the Shine, Shine, My Star art song.

Contrary to popular opinion, the Asharites were not completely traditionalist and anti-rationalist, nor were their historical foes, the Mutazilites, completely rationalist and anti-traditionalist, as the Asharites did depend on rationality and the Mutazilites did depend on tradition.

Contrary to popular opinion, there is no evidence that he opposed the anti-slavery clause in the Declaration.

Contrary to popular opinion, Web 2. 0 is not a new version of the Web, rather it implies a shift in emphasis from Web browsing, which is essentially a one-way process ( from the Web to the end-user ), to making use of Web applications in the same way as one uses applications on a desktop computer.

* Contrary to what opinion polls and political pundits were predicting, the Progressive Democrats kept all of their seats, and picked up four more.

Contrary to popular opinion, the Diggers did not " fall apart ," but evolved into the larger and more complex Free Family.

Contrary to widely circulated opinion that Ediacaran burrows are only horizontal the vertical burrows Skolithos are also known.

* Contrary to common opinion Edison made use of the scientific method but in a way that was limited to the task at hand and did not seek to develop generalized theories.

Contrary to the prevailing opinion of the time that the nucleus consists of protons and electrons, they proved that free electrons cannot exist within the nucleus and that some neutral particles must be present besides the protons.

Contrary to received opinion, 16 frame / s-though sometimes used as a camera shooting speed-was dangerously inadvisable for projection, due to the high risk of the nitrate-base prints catching fire in the projector.

Contrary to popular opinion Brodie Knobs are legal in most or all states of the USA for private vehicles as most states have not addressed this steering attachment in law.

Contrary to popular opinion she was never known as Auntie Vi, that epithet belonging only to Violet Fraser back in the 1920s.

Contrary to popular opinion, Rossini's opera " Tancredi " is not about Tancred Prince of Galilee ; the opera story takes place in 1005 whereas Tancred was born in 1072.

Contrary to popular opinion prescriptivity does not just describe or categorize decisions for example ; " You ought to do this " ( used evaluatively ) logically entails the imperative " Do this.

Contrary to popular opinion, Monks Orchard is not named after a monastery in the area, but probably commemorates a family named Monk, from Addington, who owned some of the land at one time.

Contrary to the common opinion, Benjamin Urrutia insists that this version must be the authentic one, because: 1 ) It is strongly supported by the Criterion of Embarrassment: Jesus changes his mind, and agrees to somebody else's idea.

Contrary to popular opinion, The Charles Atlas " Dynamic Tension " Course did not use any true isometric exercises, but rather Dynamic Self-Resistance ( that is: Pitting one muscle group against another ) and Calisthenics.