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

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the WHO advises that only corpses carrying an infectious disease strictly require burial.

Contrary to conventional roofs, earth-house roofs restore usable surface area to the environment.

Contrary to conventional bulk magnets and molecule-based magnets, collective long-range magnetic ordering of magnetic moments is not necessary.

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 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 early hopes that seabed mining would generate extensive revenues for both the exploiting countries and the Authority, no technology has yet been developed for gathering deep-sea minerals at costs that can compete with land-based mines.

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 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 practice at the time of retiring partners removing their capital from the firm, Hollingworth left his capital with the firm in trust to Jardine and Matheson.

Contrary to his expressed wishes but at his brother Dakin Williams ' insistence, Williams was interred in the Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.

Contrary to rumours at the time, the cat survived the plunge unharmed and later posed with Taylor in photographs.

Contrary to what had been intended at its conception, the declaration made no direct mention of the Emperor at all.

Contrary to the belief that she was buried at St. Stephen's, also called l ' Abbaye-aux-Hommes in Caen, Normandy, where William was eventually buried, she is entombed at l ' Abbaye aux Dames, which is the Sainte-Trinité church, also in Caen.

Contrary to the tight production and song-oriented nature of their studio albums, the band's live shows at the time demonstrated Glass Harp's ability to stretch out and expand the boundaries of their compositions.

Contrary to common belief, George Herbert Mead-whose ' concern with the analysis of meaning in social interaction paralleled that of Schütz, although it had been arrived at by a completely different road ' - was of little importance for Schütz, who was very critical of his behavioristic approach and his inadequate treatment of the problem of social action.

Contrary to its title, the 1970 performance was recorded in Oakland, California, not at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

Contrary to the claim on the title page shown here, the first volume had already appeared at the Leipzig Michaelmas Fair of 1731.

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

Contrary to the original Altair BASIC, most home computer BASICs were resident in ROM, and thus were available on the machines at power-on in the form of the characteristic "" prompt.

Contrary to popular belief the house used for the exterior shots is not located in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California, but is in fact located in Brentwood, at 251 North Bristol Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Contrary to the Milesian school, who would have one stable element at the root of all, Heraclitus taught that " everything flows " or " everything is in flux ," the closest element to this flux being fire ; he also extended the teaching that seeming opposites in fact are manifestations of a common substrate to good and evil itself.

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed in introductory physics textbooks, it is possible for symmetric operators to have no eigenvalues at all ( although the spectrum of any self-adjoint operator is nonempty ).

Contrary to popular belief, most of the sampling for Paul's Boutique was cleared, but at excessively lower costs compared to today's prevailing rates.

Contrary to popular perception, the Digital8 format is not technically inferior to miniDV -- both are identical at the bitstream level.

Contrary to common belief, The Man in the Iron Mask and Marquis de Sade were not prisoners at the château.

Contrary to often-held belief, the Nesomimus mockingbirds may have played at least as great a role as Darwin's finches in inspiring Darwin's work on his theory of evolution ( Curry 2003 ).

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 Anton's assertions, the Pennant claim in 1790 was not the first time this had been discussed or put to print, as the Martin Martin texts predate Pennant by almost 100 years.

Contrary to the legal principle of " no double jeopardy ," after the officers were acquitted, the government renamed the crime and tried the officers a second time for the same event and got a conviction from a jury with black jurors.

Contrary to popular beliefs involving him wishing to keep his music and techniques secret, Paganini devoted his time to the publication of his compositions and violin methods.

Contrary to speculation, studio meddling was not the cause of the shortened length ; Cameron held final cut as long as the film met a running time of roughly two hours and 15 minutes.

Contrary to their demonized public image, many hallucinogens and psychedelics have shown vastly better potential for actual curing of mental diseases that current medications only temporarily fix and in most cases worsen over time.

Contrary to the image of monochrome barrenness that most people associate with deserts, the landscape is spectacular, with its crisscrossing hills and mountains of all shapes and sizes, each with a unique hue depending on its mineral composition, its distance from the observer, and the time of day.

Contrary to Saint Augustine, some philosophers propose that conscious experience is extended in time.

Contrary to many other historical works of the time, Pasquier was seeking to create an accurate reconstruction of past for the present needs of France, which he held to be in a period of crisis.

Contrary to some assertions, he did not marry a fourth time.

Contrary to the revolutionary spirit of the time however, he called for the educated classes to reform the corrupt system of government and warned against revolution, democracy, and mob rule.

( Contrary to what has been said by some imprecise sources, jazz, African Americans, and New Orleans bands had all been recorded earlier, but Nordskog captured the first instance of those three elements in one place at the same time.

Contrary to the Race's expectations, at the time of the invasion the Race's technology is only marginally more advanced than current 20th century Earth technology.

Contrary to traditional QWERTY type keyboards, on which a typist usually presses one key at a time to create one character at a time, a Veyboard requires the user to press several keys simultaneously, producing syllables rather than letters.

Contrary to popular belief at the time, then, the widespread adoption of the radio seems to have had little, if any, effect on a person ’ s tendency to prefer specific types of content.

Contrary to popular misconception and misuse, mucus and phlegm are not the same all the time

Contrary to the general perception that sunfish spend much of their time basking at the surface, research suggests that adult M. mola actually spend a large portion of their lives submerged at depths greater than, occupying both the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones.

Contrary to popular speculation at the time, the Australian Electoral Commission confirmed that voting informally does not break any Australian laws and is completely legal.

Contrary to a popularly held belief, cranes on medieval building sites were neither placed on the extremely lightweight scaffolding used at the time nor on the thin walls of the Gothic churches which were incapable of supporting the weight of both hoisting machine and load.

Contrary wise, many ships with their reliability, comfort and decades of service, became particularly popular with passengers of that time.