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Despite his physicians ' predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk again, but from that point on he was in constant pain and was severely limited in his ability to move.
Steinhäuser was severely injured by rifle-butt blows and shots, but contrary to later statements, he was not killed.
More tellingly, the figures presented by Parker to sustain his idea about the growth of armies have been severely criticised by David Eltis as lacking consistency and David Parrott has proved that the period of the trace italienne did not show any significant growth in the size of French armies and that the late period of the Thirty Years War showed an increase in the proportion of cavalry in the armies, contrary to Parker's Thesis that the prevalence of siege warfare marked a decrease of its importance.
The Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly severely condemned this verdict which is contrary to the fundamental values they uphold .... The Parliamentary Assembly ... categorically condemns the barbaric way in which they were treated in the first few months after their arrest and the torture and ill-treatment to which they were subjected.
Alexander was not ( contrary to what the film depicts ) severely injured by an arrow from Indian King Porus during this battle.
During a visit to his father, Bloody Knife was — contrary to the customary protection of guests — attacked and ambushed by Gall and several other Hunkpapas who beat him severely, stripped him, spat on him, mocked him and hit him with coup sticks and musket ramrods.

contrary and criticized
Seizing the opportunity Jefferson acted contrary to the lack of an explicit Constitutional authority, and the Federalists criticized him for acting without that authority, but most thought that this opportunity was exceptional and could not be missed.
Christian commentators have also criticized Unification Church teachings as contrary to the Protestant doctrine of salvation by faith alone.
Still other commentators have criticized the Ehrlichs ' perceived inability to acknowledge mistakes, evasiveness, and refusal to alter their arguments in the face of contrary evidence.
A contrary report has criticized the National Academy of Sciences report.
The practice of corking roads in order to pass through red lights as a group is in contravention of traffic laws in some jurisdictions and is sometimes criticized to be contrary to Critical Mass ' claim that " we are traffic ", since ordinary traffic does not have the right to go through intersections once the traffic signal has changed to red.
This was criticized by the conservative opposition as contrary to business interests, and they abolished the tax in 2003 after seizing back the government.
Montaigne's brief essay " On sumptuary laws " criticized 16th-century French laws, beginning, " The way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed ... For to enact that none but princes shall eat turbot, shall wear velvet or gold lace, and interdict these things to the people, what is it but to bring them into a greater esteem, and to set every one more agog to eat and wear them?
Christian commentators have criticized the concept of indemnity as being contrary to the Christian doctrine of salvation by faith.
General Clinton sharply criticized the decision as unmilitary, and as having been made contrary to his instructions.
This view has been criticized by certain philosophers, such as Deleuze or Michel Foucault, who declared that Thought couldn't be identified to rationalism, and that irrationalism wasn't to be considered as the contrary of thought ( i. e. as madness, which, as Foucault demonstrated, is the product of a historical conception and disciplinary technologies of power ).
Former Republican U. S. Senator and former U. S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, an opponent of LGBT rights in general, has said that he has " a problem with homosexual acts " and does not believe the right to privacy under the United States Constitution covers sexual acts, and also criticized the US Supreme Court ruling in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that ruled to the contrary.
Impressment was strongly criticized by those who believed it to be contrary to the British constitution ; at the time, unlike many of its continental rivals, Britain did not conscript its subjects for any other military service, aside from a brief experiment with army impressment in 1778 to 1780.
Amnesty International has criticized the U. S. treatment of the Cuban Five as " unnecessarily punitive and contrary both to standards for the humane treatment of prisoners and to states ’ obligation to protect family life ", as the wives of René Gonzáles and Gerardo Hernández have not been allowed visas to visit their imprisoned husbands.
Separate school rights have often been criticized as contrary to the spirit of official multiculturalism, primarily, but not exclusively, because only adherents of the Protestant or Roman Catholic faith have these constitutional rights and only in some provinces and territories.
The Conservative Party has criticized this decision as contrary to Turner's often-declared principle of electoral accountability to voters.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized the CNSC for this shutdown which " jeopardized the health and safety of tens of thousands of Canadians ", insisting that there was no risk, contrary to the testimony of then CNSC President & CEO Linda Keen.
In March 1999, talk show host Laura Schlessinger criticized the study as " junk science " and stated that since its conclusions were contrary to conventional wisdom, its findings should never have been released.
" They criticized Vogel for being " silent " about all of the evidence against his theory, and found the persistence in the propagation of the Vogel theory in the media " even in the face of evidence to the contrary " as exemplifying " the process by which conspiracy theories and other astounding knowledge claims gain popular attention.
To the contrary, empirical studies of mutual funds spearheaded by Russ Wermers usually confirm managers ' stock-picking talent, finding positive Alpha, however this work has been criticized
Jason McQuinn has criticized what he sees an ideological tendency in anarcho-primitivism when he says that " for most primitivists an idealized, hypostatized vision of primal societies tends to irresistibly displace the essential centrality of critical self-theory, whatever their occasional protestations to the contrary.
However, parts of the game were criticized, such as the complaints of some of dullness of the side missions and the linearity of the story objectives ( which many saw to be contrary to the developer's idea of creating a free-form game ).
Numerous conservative Catholic commentators have criticized the National Catholic Reporter for advocating positions contrary to Church doctrines.
Prominent among his contributions, Zaehner criticized on several occasions the simplistic idea of the mystical unity of all religions ; he based his contrary ideas and proposals on the historic texts written by well-known mystics of various traditions, which contain descriptions of their experiences, often with their interpretive theology as well.
Statisticians have also criticized the validity of international statistical comparisons using national accounts data, on the ground that in the real world, the estimates are rarely compiled in a uniform way-despite appearances to the contrary.

contrary and me
It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them ; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations ; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".
) contrary to other subdialects which maintains " full form " ( me, ne, te, se, etc.
As this was contrary to Napoleon ’ s orders " you will be the sword against the Prussian ’ s back driving them through Wavre and join me here ", Grouchy decided not to take the advice, convinced as he was that the Prussians were positively known to be at Wavre in the morning, and that any other movement than ordered by Napoleon to " March on Wavre and draw closer to the main army " ( order send by Napoleon around 10 p. m .) would have been a disobeying of given orders.
As this was contrary to Napoleon ’ s orders (" you will be the sword against the Prussians ’ back driving them through Wavre and join me here ") Grouchy decided not to take the advice.
According to Fuller, Mildmay, on coming to court, after the college was opened was addressed by the Queen with the words: " Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation ", to which Mildmay replied: " No, madam ; far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof ".
I would dare to take an oath solemnly, swearing that, except for those who have murdered Tiberius Gracchus, no enemy has foisted so much difficulty and so much distress upon me as you have because of the matters: you should have shouldered the responsibilities of all of those children whom I had in the past, and to make sure that I might have the least anxiety possible in my old age ; and that, whatever you did, you would wish to please me most greatly ; and that you would consider it sacrilegious to do anything of great significance contrary to my feelings, especially as I am someone with only a short portion of my life left.
Of course, in all this, there is no blame-attached contrary you have asked me to permit you to earn money honestly by teaching and I refused.
Reflecting back on the transition, Iorga himself stated: " The love for the past, for great figures of energy and sincerity, [...] the exact contrary of tendencies I had found existed among my contemporaries, had gripped me and, added to my political preoccupations, such awakenings served me, when it came to criticizing things present, more than any argument that is abstract, logical in nature.
If you suppose, sir, that I have published sentiments contrary to those generally held in this community, because I delighted in differing from them, or in occasioning a disturbance, you have entirely misapprehended me.
The case appears to me to be thus: if a tower presented a good situation for military engines, it had a flat top ; if the contrary, it had a high roof to guarantee the defenders from the rain and the lighter sorts of missiles.
Another involved explaining to his hand puppet Johnny that something was easy ( or difficult ) to do, to which the puppet would reply the contrary, such as, " Easy for you, for me ees very deefeecult!
: I would rather choose to wear a crown of thorns with my Saviour, than to exchange that of gold, which is due to me, for one of lead, whose embased flexibleness shall be forced to bend and comply to the various and oft contrary dictates of any factions, when instead of reason and public concernments they obtrude nothing but what makes for the interest of parties, and flows from the partialities of private wills and passions.
On the contrary he behaved very genteely with me.
I, AB., do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will do my utmost, at every risk, while life lasts, to make versions, according to Luby, establish in ' Ireland an independent Democratic Republic ; that I will yield implicit obedience, in all things not contrary to the law of God of morality ' to the commands of my superior officers ; and that I shall preserve inviolable secrecy regarding all the transactions of this secret society that may be confided in me.
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.
In fact quite to the contrary I am humbled that Allah would honour me so.
On the contrary, it appears to me to have been saved, and that less constitutional disturbance has followed than under ordinary circumstances.
He also never became a Jewish nationalist of any kind ; quite the contrary, he was ideologically disposed against it, but in 1926 he confessed, " Zionism makes a strong emotional appeal to me, chiefly as a manifestation of awakening national self respect of the Jewish people.

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