1.   Passive obedience was still the rule, and rebellion was directly contrary to the laws of the gospel.

2.   The growing trend towards private toll roads and bridges is directly contrary to our environmental needs.

3.   Both stands are directly contrary to British views, United Nations policy and the latest Clinton administration thinking.

4.   After all, this was directly contrary to how I should have felt, according to the alarms being sounded by downtown businesspeople and city officials.

5.   Both are stands directly contrary to British thinking and, so far, U.N. policy.

6.   The electronic communications networks have differing approaches and different rules, in some cases directly contrary to the rules that traders have taken for granted for years.

7.   The implications of that analysis are directly contrary to the conventional Wall Street wisdom.

8.   This was humiliating to them, insulting to Iran, and directly contrary to our interest in signaling a willingness to develop better relations.

9.   What the administration is doing is directly contrary to what Congress intended a quarter-century ago.