SEARCH RESULTS   Found 25 text references: 1. " In the most famous - "Opposite Directions," a sort of Arab "Crossfire" - Faisal Qasim, a drama graduate from the university of Hull, England, moderates a discussion featuring two protagonists of contrary opinions." Source:   Hirst, David. "Qatari station has Arab world agog" Washington Times Apr. 19 2000: 12 2. "... regenerate and unregenerate as spiritual 'contraries', defining them as mirror opposites to one another in their relationship to the 'devil, world, and flesh' on the one hand and to God on the other." Source:   LUTTMER, FRANK. "Persecutors, Tempters and Vassals of the Devil: The Unregenerate in Puritan Practical Divinity" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.1 Jan. 1 2000: 37 3. " A second criticism holds that contrary to the hopes of progressive reformers that the councils will decentralize and democratize power, the councils will have the opposite effect. (The "perversity" argument.) In the view of these critics, the dominant..." Source:   TAJBAKHSH, KIAN. "Political Decentralization and the Creation of Local Government in Iran: Consolidation or Transformation of the Theocratic State?" Social Research 67.2 June 22 2000: 377 4. " In fact, contrary to the punditry, which claims that the women's movement is dead and that the public has turned against it, public-opinion research shows the opposite." Source:   BAXANDALL, ROSALYN,GORDON, LINDA. "Second-Wave Soundings" Nation 271.1 July 3 2000: 28 5. " While we humans are constrained to choose one or the other of opposites, in God contraries (though not contradictories, which are something else again) can coexist; for example, infinite mercy with infinite justice, or chance with intelligent design, for that matter." Source:   . "CORRESPONDENCE" Commonweal 127.7 Apr. 7 2000: 4 + 6. " A large body of literature suggests that positive and negative affect are not simply opposite ends of the same dimension (e.g., Watson & Tellegen, 1985; but for a contrary viewpoint see Green, Goldman, & Salovey, 1993)." Source:   Fleishman, John A.,Sherbourne, Cathy Donald,Crystal, Stephen,Collins, Rebecca L.,Marshall, Grant N.,Kelly, Mark,Bozzette, Samuel A.,Shapiro, Martin F.,Hays, Ron D. "Coping, Conflictual Social Interactions, Social Support, and Mood Among HIV-Infected Persons [1]" American Journal of Community Psychology 28.4 Aug. 1 2000: 421 7. " The word widdershins is a variation on withershins, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "a direction opposite to the usual, the wrong way"; "in a direction contrary to the apparent course of..." Source:   Foy, Roslyn Reso. ""Brightness falls": magic in the short stories of Mary Butts" Studies in Short Fiction 36.4 Sept. 22 1999: 381-401 8. " Contrary to textbook theory, which holds that interest rates and stock prices tend to move in opposite directions, investor exuberance - rational, irrational or merely inexplicably unstoppable - was on a roll." Source:   . "Rational exuberance" Washington Times July 6 1999: 14 9. " Contrary to either-or dichotomy (Aristotle 1952; Hartmann 1991; Kierkegaard 1986), the paradoxical view believes that each element consists of opposite sub-elements that mut ually affirm as well as mutually negate, so that it has to be studied as unity-in-opposites (Li 1995)." Source:   Li, Peter Ping. "Towards a Geocentric Framework of Organizational Form: A Holistic, Dynamic and Paradoxical Approach" Organization Studies 19.5 Dec. 22 1998: 829 10. " Nor--contrary to the often apocalyptic rhetoric of those who denounced, or even tried to stop, the event--did it represent an assault on "democracy" and the "rule of law." Quite the opposite:..." Source:   Neuer, Hillel. "Israel's Imperial Judiciary" Commentary 108.3 Oct. 1 1999: 28 11. " It is possible, on the contrary, to interpret them in exactly the opposite fashion." Source:   Graves, Neil D. "Infelix culpa: Milton's Son of God and the incarnation as a fall in Paradise Lost" Philological Quarterly 81.2 Mar. 22 2002: 159-184 12. " The resiliency factors are simply the opposites of the recognized vulnerability factors." Source:   BEGUN, AUDREY L. "INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: AN HBSE PERSPECTIVE" Journal of Social Work Education 35.2 Mar. 22 1999: 239 13. " Not merely the opposite of a risk factor, protective factors should be thought of as separate constructs that affect risk or problem states (for discussions, see Jessor, Van Den Bos, Vanderryn, Costa, & Turbin, 1997; Newcomb & Felix-Ortiz, 1992)." Source:   Fraser, Mark W.,Richman, Jack M.,Galinsky, Maeda J. "Risk, protection, and resilience: Toward a conceptual framework for social work practice" Social Work Research 23.3 Sept. 1 1999: 131 14. "... was the item "Can you wash the back of your opposite shoulder with the affected extremity?" (factor 1 = .775, factor 2 = -.037)." Source:   Roddey, Toni S,Olson, Sharon L,Cook, Karon F,Gartsman, Gary M,Hanten, William. "Comparison of the University of California--Los Angeles Shoulder Scale and the Simple Shoulder Test With the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index: Single-Administration Reliability and Validity" Physical Therapy 80.8 Aug. 1 2000: 759 15. " On the contrary, only one in five of the population considers marriage an important factor in bringing up children, according to an opinion poll commissioned earlier this year by the government-funded National Family and Parenting Institute." Source:   Gunnell, Barbara. ""I do" -- but not for very long, thanks" New Statesman (1996) 129.4501 Aug. 28 2000: 13 16. " The effect of the Black female students' choices was the factor that caused the overall disaggregate groups of Blacks and female students, much more so than Whites and male students, to choose fewer students of the opposite race." Source:   DICKINSON, GERALD B.,HOLIFIELD, MITCHELL L.,HOLIFIELD, GLENDA,CREER, DONNA GRADY. "Elementary Magnet School Students' Interracial Interaction Choices" Journal of Educational Research 93.6 July 1 2000: 391 17. " Thus, one might suspect that the opposite perception is one factor in explaining institutional economics' broad lack of appeal within the profession today." Source:   Ramstad, Yngve. "Discussant Remarks" Journal of Economic Issues 34.2 June 1 2000: 335 18. " Contrary to expectations, satisfaction with noncontingent factors such as the amount of annual and sick leave earned are inversely related to job satisfaction." Source:   Selden, Sally Coleman,Brewer, Gene A. "Work Motivation in the Senior Executive Service: Testing the High Performance Cycle Theory" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10.3 July 1 2000: 531 19. " A purely economic model of fertility would consider the career opportunity costs of childbearing as a negative influence on fertility motivation, bu t this factor may have the opposite effect for women who dislike their jobs and would be happy to..." Source:   FOSTER, CAROLINE. "The Limits to Low Fertility: A Biosocial Approach" Population and Development Review 26.2 June 1 2000: 209 20. " It was Leavis who taught that the quasireligious attitude toward poetry in the Victorian age was a significant factor in the decline of that form, whereas the lesser regard in which the novel was held had the opposite effect." Source:   Podhoretz, Norman. "Bellow at 85, Roth at 67" Commentary 110.1 July 1 2000: 35 21. "... transthoracic echocardiography independently predicted stroke risk.[31] Contrary to previous reports, isolated left atrial dilatation on the echocardiogram was not an independent risk factor for increased stroke risk on multivariate analysis." Source:   Verstraete, Marc,Prentice, Colin R. M.,Samama, Michel,Verhaeghe, Raymond. "A European View on the North American Fifth Consensus on Antithrombotic Therapy" Chest 117.6 June 1 2000: 1755 22. " The bipolar opposites were representative of Osgood, Suci, and Tannenbaum's (1957) semantic differential factors, with one of the poles for each dimension being psychologically positive (e.g. fair, strong and active) and the other being psychologically negative (e.g. unfair, weak and passive)." Source:   Benjafield, John G. "Dalzell's theorem and the analysis of proportions: A methodological note" British Journal of Psychology 91.2 May 1 2000: 287 23. " Despite victors' claims to the contrary, orthodoxy is created from a confluence of factors both historical and theoretical." Source:   Dippmann, Jeffrey. "The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern ChanBuddhism" Philosophy East and West 49.3 July 1 1999: 386 24. " Decentralization and Federalism The redistribution of power between center and periphery is another factor that could affect political ethics in opposite ways." Source:   GOLDSMITH, ARTHUR A. "Slapping the Grasping Hand: Correlates of Political Corruption in Emerging Markets" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58.4 Oct. 1 1999: 865 25. " Consequently, we cannot look to objective factors to evaluate knowledge; on the contrary, the very notion of objectivity must be abandoned." Source:   Barbiero, Daniel. "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science" Issues in Science and Technology 15.4 June 22 1999: 76-79 back to top