run counter to
Example Sentences
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But keeping a smaller EV manufacturing footprint seems to run counter to the idea of producing competitively priced, profit-making EVs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
From a human-resources perspective, it makes little sense to effectively conflate vacation days with work-from-home days, and it also seems to run counter to promoting goodwill.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025
To Steven Blitz, chief U.S. economist at TS Lombard, such a move would run counter to the administration’s framing of the tariffs as something that trading partners, not U.S. customers, are paying.
From Barron's • Oct. 7, 2025
Jurado, the tenant rights attorney, has staked out positions that run counter to many of those espoused by the three politicians in the race.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Rationalism, however, although defeated, has nevertheless been fruitful, and it will oppose an insuperable barrier to the dogmas that run counter to reason much too violently.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne
