By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule ; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of one great panel only.

If there were such a number then the theory would be inconsistent, contrary to the consistency hypothesis.

Critics argue that to postulate a practically infinite number of unobservable universes just to explain our own seems contrary to Occam's razor.

On the contrary, people have faced a huge number of problems.

When traveling across a number of time zones, the body clock will be out of synchronization with the destination time, as it experiences daylight and darkness contrary to the rhythms to which it has grown accustomed: the body's natural pattern is upset, as the rhythms that dictate times for eating, sleeping, hormone regulation and body temperature variations no longer correspond to the environment nor to each other in some cases.

If there were such a number then the theory would be inconsistent, contrary to the consistency hypothesis.

The exact number of seeds in a pomegranate can vary from 200 to about 1400 seeds, contrary to some beliefs that all pomegranates have exactly the same number of seeds.

The biblical narrative includes a number of cases of Jeremiah being given unusual instructions requiring him to act out parables or behave in ways contrary to expectations of prophetic office.

Note that, contrary to a common misinterpretation, " show one, show all " does not refer to the number of cards in the hole – an uncalled winning hand may expose a single hole card to all players without revealing the other hole card.

Let p be the nth decimal of the nth number of the set E ; we form a number N having zero for the integral part and p + 1 for the nth decimal, if p is not equal either to 8 or 9, and unity in the contrary case.

On the contrary, rectangular matrices do not have the same number of rows and columns so they can never be raised to a power.

On the contrary, while an increasing number of people seem to become addicted to PIM tools and other new communications technologies, these technologies are growing in praise for their ability to connect people and effectively keep them connected while increasing organization and allowing for new brain function mechanisms.

It appears, by a vast number of experiments made at Peking, that its colour is owing to no mixture ; on the contrary, all mixtures diminish its beauty, for, when it is rightly managed it looks exactly like silver and were there not a necessity of mixing a little tutenag or such metal to soften it, it would be so much more the extraordinary as this sort of copper is found no where but in China and that only in the Province of Yunnan ".

Another common theme is that the system being analyzed has excess capacity at a number of non critical points, which, contrary to conventional wisdom, is absolutely essential to ensure constant operation of the constrained resource.

Any ordinal number can be made into a topological space by endowing it with the order topology ( since, being well-ordered, an ordinal is in particular totally ordered ): in the absence of indication to the contrary, it is always that order topology which is meant when an ordinal is thought of as a topological space.

A study completed in July 2007 by Matthias Mehl of the University of Arizona shows that contrary to popular belief, there is little difference in the number of words used by men and women in conversation.

The exhibition device itself — which, despite erroneous accounts to the contrary, never employed intermittent film movement, only intermittent lighting or viewing — was finally awarded its patent, number 493, 426, on March 14.

" Macmillan, who supported Rutherford throughout the crisis, claimed the president was extremely patient and " did everything that he could to help his opposers see their mistake, holding a number of meetings with them, trying to reason with them and show them how contrary their course was to the Society's charter ".

The evaluation released an initial report in September 2006, which indicated that the number of sex workers on the streets was approximately the same as before the Act came into force in 2003, and, in some cases, even slightly reduced, contrary to allegations that it has increased.

Thus, contrary to intuition, the number of k-point lines expected from random chance increases much more than linearly with the size of the area considered.

A six-month investigation by Western scholars in 1994 examined evidence in Russia, Mongolia, China, the United States, and Taiwan, and came to a number of conclusions, some of which were contrary to the official Chinese version of events.

The party holds positions considered contrary to social liberalism on a number of issues.

Mentally ill people are essentially no more prone to violence than sane individuals, despite Hollywood and other media portrayals to the contrary.

Thus, contrary to the suggestions of the popular media, when an adolescent experiences a very serious psychological problem, this behavior is usually not normative and is most likely a sign that something is not right.

Martial law was not declared in Plaquemines, contrary to many media reports, as no such term exists in Louisiana state law '.

Note that contrary to some misconception sometimes found in the Anglophone media, the French government neither regulates the language used by private parties in non-commercial settings, nor makes it compulsory that France-based WWW sites should be in French.

In addition, Islamic law prohibits investing in businesses that are considered unlawful, or haraam ( such as businesses that sell alcohol or pork, or businesses that produce media such as gossip columns or pornography, which are contrary to Islamic values ).

Eighty percent of the damages were for violation of their First Amendment rights by the FBI and police trying to discredit them in the media as violent extremists despite ample evidence to the contrary.

Speaking in the House of Commons he said “ Despite media speculation to the contrary, there has been no recent change to force levels ”, adding “ There is no evidence of any current credible military threat to the security of the Falkland Islands and therefore no current plan for significant changes to force deployments.

It was business, and contrary to media stereotype, we weren't a bunch of lowlifes who sat around drinking beer all day and all night.

The contemporaneous media accounts to the contrary were erroneous.

" 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.

Professor Paolo Di Lazzaro, the lead researcher, indicated in an e-mail interview that '…. it appears unlikely a forger may have done this image with technologies available in the Middle Ages or earlier ', but their study does not mean the Shroud image could only have been created by the flash of a miraculous resurrection, contrary to how the story was presented in the media, especially on the Web.

During a question-and-answer session with members of the public and the media, Al Al-Sheikh denied that the government influenced fatwas ( religious rulings ) and said accusations to the contrary within the media were false

On August 3, 2011, the Rodeo Drive Committee, the street's non-profit association of merchants, landlords and hotelier voted almost unanimously to support construction of a nearby subway station contrary to previous media reports that the merchants were against the project.

This is contrary to the path assumed by many Iranian intellectuals at the time, which involved quixotic solutions to problems such as electoral corruption and media censorship.

Wenger confirmed that Gallas still had a future with the club, contrary to media speculation, and Gallas played in the following day's Champions League match.

This is contrary to official statements of the North Korean state media, which stated that the satellite achieved orbit about 5 minutes after launch.

The International Red Cross stated that phosphorus weapons had been used in the conflict but would not comment publicly on the legality of Israel ’ s use of the weapon, pending further investigation, contrary to what had been attributed to the ICRC in a number of media reports.

They showcased a maturing genre of music that displayed the influences of reggae, hip-hop, house and techno and were highly-sophisticated and intricately-produced, contrary to the image of the music that had been presented by the mass media up to that point.

On the contrary, in different years he suffered the fracture of a clavicle, the death of his mother during a stage, the communication of a " positive " result in a dope test that finally proved false ( but after it was filtered to the media ), gastroenteritis, and a tremendous mistake that led him to lose seven minutes in the first two days of the tour of 1989.

They prohibit the consumption or sale of alcoholic beverages and seize banned consumer products and media regarded contrary to Islamic morals.

They enforce Muslim dietary laws, prohibit the consumption or sale of alcoholic beverages and pork, and seize banned consumer products and media regarded as anti-Islamic ( such as CDs / DVDs of various Western musical groups, television shows and film which has material contrary to Sharia law or Islam itself ).