Examples of 'ran counter' in a sentence
Meaning of "ran counter"
The phrase 'ran counter' is used to describe a situation where something goes against or contradicts another thing. It implies opposition or conflict. For example, if a person's actions 'ran counter' to their stated beliefs, it means that their actions were inconsistent with what they claimed to believe
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How to use "ran counter" in a sentence
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ran counter
So even though it ran counter to our strategies.
We ran counter ops guerrillas with him.
He considered that delays ran counter to the.
It ran counter to all the efforts of previous years.
These early settlements ran counter to the freedom to fish.
This ran counter to the spirit of the new partnership for development.
The exaltation of motherhood also ran counter to that goal.
This ran counter to the physics of the day.
So even though it ran counter.
Inevitably ran counter to the conceptions of the anarchists of.
The prior setting of budget ceilings ran counter to that practice.
The draft resolution ran counter to the principles of international good governance.
Any proposal to limit the rate of adjustment ran counter to that principle.
Those elements that ran counter to this nature were to be reduced.
Slovak and Hungarian revolutionary claims ran counter to each other.
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His political rise ran counter to prevailing national trends.
The Committee should not inadvertently encourage influences that ran counter to principles in the Charter.
But this belief ran counter to all military experience.
The Committee would expect the Government to veto a law which ran counter to the Covenant.
That arrogant attitude ran counter to its claim of pursuing peace.
It ran counter to the prevailing belief that the brain is hardwired and fixed.
At times he expressed opinions that ran counter to his earlier pronouncements.
That ran counter to the objectives of the instrument identified for TCEs.
These were impossible targets and ran counter to economic development rules.
This ran counter to the level of observance among monastic communities of the day.
Any idea of dictatorship surely ran counter to the very concept of freedom.
It ran counter to the trend towards pluralistic democracy and jeopardized economic and social development.
That was a contradiction which ran counter to the effective protection of the signal.
Explicit or implicit incitement to hatred, including religious hatred, ran counter to human rights.
That of course ran counter to the intention of any raw materials agreement.
Several delegations stated that such liability ran counter to their domestic law.
Such automatic linking ran counter to due process and the presumption of innocence.
And the secretary 's explanation for his decision ran counter to the evidence.
Such a notion ran counter to the principles of universality and interdependence of all human rights.
Everything about his life and his art ran counter to the usual and expected patterns.
This trend ran counter to traditional work organisation and use of the labour force.
The detention regime for migrants also ran counter to the Convention.
This theory ran counter to the lab report that stated this evidence is inconclusive.
The policy of His family here ran counter to His work.
The laws never ran counter to the provisions of the Constitution.
Mr Walker opposed the amendment insofar as it ran counter to Budget Group decisions.
This provision ran counter to the principle of the sovereignty of States.
He also warned against any initiatives that ran counter to the Dayton Agreement.
This all ran counter to the hopes of the Vienna Circle.
Af - rican leaders took strategic decisions that ran counter to the interests of their peoples.
Such initiatives ran counter to the universal periodic review adopted by the Human Rights Council.
The host country 's selective implementation of international agreements ran counter to the law of treaties.
Some of my values ran counter to Japanese expectations.
He did not consider, however, that anything in article 7 ran counter to that provision.
Such an attitude ran counter to the spirit of the Treaty.
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A number of survivors ran into surrounding fields
I ran this office for two years
Examples of using Counter
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Smells like a perfume counter at a department store
Counter with cross to the left cheek
More needs to be done to counter the threats to asylum
