Definitions for to the contrary
to the con·tra·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contraryadverb

   contrary to expectations

   "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends"

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1. to the contrary

   "To the contrary" is a phrase used to indicate a complete disagreement with something previously mentioned or an alternate or opposite idea in a particular context. It conveys the sense of contradicting, opposing, or rejecting the idea or evidence offered.

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1. To The Contrary

   To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbé is PBS’s all women news-analysis program. The show airs weekly on over 251 PBS stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Voice of America TV. It was created by host Bonnie Erbé and is produced by Persephone Productions in Washington, DC. Cari Weiss Stein is Executive Producer of To the Contrary. For the first six years of broadcast the show was filmed at the Maryland Public Television studios in Owings Mills, Maryland. First launched on April 1, 1992, each week the show features four female panelists from various backgrounds including politicians, journalists, activists, and professional commentators. These women, with host and moderator Bonnie Erbé, discuss various issues in the news, mainly affecting women, children, families and communities of color. It is a half hour program. The show tries to focus on how the news affects people, not simply politics.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of to the contrary in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of to the contrary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of to the contrary in a Sentence

1. Jerry Nadler:

   The Democrats's prejudged -- The Democrats's said there was no crime, there was no interference by the Russians in the election, which we know is ridiculous, all our intelligence agencies say the contrary.

2. Merrick Garland:

   This does not mean that every police officer — quite the contrary, this means that … from talking to many police officers, that they believe that it's important that there be accountability and that officers who break the law are held accountable so that the community retains its trust in the good police officers who do not break the law.

3. Archibald MacLeish:

   Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

4. Thom Tillis:

   I remember a pattern of conduct the press tried to conjure with Brett Kavanaugh that much of it proved to be incorrect, i'm not going to judge based on media reporting. If I have facts in front of me to the contrary, then that would be a different discussion.

5. Donald Trump:

   As House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said just the other day, if we got all the information we're looking for, we could wrap this up faster. But I have seen no evidence to the contrary of, of the initial assessment that Chairman Gowdy has made, but I want to make sure that we run every lead down and make sure we get final answers to these questions.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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3. ^ Wikidata
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