The Trump administration's populism ran counter to the Chamber's goals.
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Fiat Chrysler's sales ran counter to the trend, dropping 14 percent.
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Civ V's hidden formulae for success ran counter to that idea.
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It also ran counter to the way things usually go with Apple.
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But his language on trade and immigration ran counter to the Kochs.
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Giuliani's declaration also ran counter to Cohen's claim that he was never reimbursed.
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Much of her homeopathic training ran counter to what she'd studied in med school.
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The nine-judge court overturned earlier rulings that the government argued ran counter to that.
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I was at first confused, since this ran counter to what I had read online.
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The ruling ran counter to the president's claim that he is immune to criminal investigations.
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Opposition leader Navalny said the outcome of the vote ran counter to what people wanted.
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The court concluded that parts of the project ran counter to the forest's management plan.
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Trump's tweet on Wednesday ran counter to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' initial comments.
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Elite evangelicals decried his infidelity, which ran counter to the red family model's stress on fidelity.
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And it ran counter to what we were hearing, that the Fed can't cure a virus.
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It was a revolutionary thought and ran counter to what most psychologists — and most parents — believed.
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The president&aposs comments, however, ran counter to remarks Defense Secretary James Mattis made the day before.
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But Christensen said this ran counter to Sierra Leone's stated policy of demobilization following the civil war.
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Yet asked if Trump's request "ran counter to U.S. policy to root out corruption," Anderson was clear.
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The emergence of modern economic growth required an intellectual revolution that ran counter to all of this.
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Some of Sondland's testimony ran counter to his closed-door deposition and testimony given by other witnesses.
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The Super Bowl's smaller viewership ran counter to the success the N.F.L. had on television this season.
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Democrats say that the role Giuliani played in Ukraine ran counter to State Department efforts to combat corruption.
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This view ran counter to a lot of conservationist thought, as well as a great deal of evidence.
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The Japanese embassy in Moscow said the Russian move ran counter to what Tokyo was trying to achieve.
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The claim ran counter to the White House's proposed 22019 budget for the EPA submitted to Congress in February.
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But when actual punk arrived, the genre crystallized all the tendencies in pop that ran counter to Neil's approach.
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Cohabitating, the email said, ran counter to Roman Catholic teachings about marriage being a moral prerequisite to living together.
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I'm sure there were some stories where the real truth ran counter to some of the long-repeated lore.
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HEALY The depiction of so many women on "Dallas" as sexual objects and playthings definitely ran counter to progressivism.
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Dargala said Trump's decision ran counter to U.S. values and interests and sent the wrong message to its allies.
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But he would go further if he believed that policies ran counter to the moral values that Jesus taught.
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In 2012, Kocherlakota's newfound belief in the power of monetary policy to boost growth ran counter to economic orthodoxy.
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The DPP admonished Beijing, saying that its moves ran counter to the goal of normal exchanges between the two sides.
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But that explanation ran counter to Mr. Trump's message as recently as last week: that Mr. Comey had treated Mrs.
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The sentiment ran counter to Trump's recent claims that he pushed for the probes on behalf of the U.S. government.
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But the policy also ran counter to the vision of Dick Costolo, who had become Twitter's CEO two years previously.
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Hours after being sworn in, Ms. Tlaib ran counter to all Democratic talking points by calling for President Trump's impeachment.
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What Mulvaney said ran counter to the argument Trump was advancing - that there was no "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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Trump's salvo ran counter to efforts this week by the White House and McConnell's office to play down reports of discord.
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A. Philip Randolph knew that the emergency of war meant that these instances of discrimination ran counter to the nation's interests.
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The change ran counter to voters, who in previous ballot questions had supported a ceiling of two consecutive terms for mayors.
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How convincing did you find the argument that ran counter to your view compared to the one that agreed with it?
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The relative acceptance and lack of attitude I found at MAL ran counter to the exclusionary nature of many gay spaces.
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But after the Trump administration started enacting policies that ran counter to the causes she believes in, she was moved to action.
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That ran counter to the prevailing trend during 2016, which has seen long-only mutual funds surrender $176.9 billion, according to BofAML.
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But its bullish pricing on Tuesday ran counter to any fear of volatility prompting firms to postpone or even shelve IPO plans.
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Clinton had bitch bona fides that ran counter to her husband's public image as a genial, thumbs-up Bubba of the people.
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Navy Captain Bill Urban, lead spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said the remarks by the British general, ran counter to U.S. intelligence.
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Whether intentional or not, Zinke even seemed to disregard the protection of federal lands entirely if it ran counter to energy independence.
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These weren't apparatuses of an oppressive federal watchdog or bilious hate group, bent on undermining any agenda that ran counter to their own.
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Stephen Harper didn't like his government producing data and reports that ran counter to his policy goals; Trump seems contemptuous of knowledge itself.
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The pop diva's decision to go rock ran counter to every current musical trend, but seems to be working out ok so far.
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Thursday's court ruling angered many, including members of the left-wing opposition Democratic Party, which said the decision ran counter to public sentiment.
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The announcement ran counter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's arguments for running political ads and allowing ones that feature lies from elected officials.
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Donald J. Trump's victory ran counter to almost every major forecast — undercutting the belief that analyzing reams of data can accurately predict events.
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Still, the overwhelming mood was one of urgent creative independence, a conviction that ran counter to the prevailing commercial mode at the time.
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SocGen lawyer Arnaud Chaulet branded the ruling "scandalous" and said the bank would appeal against a decision he said ran counter to the law.
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That prompted a legal challenge from the Commission which argued that it ran counter to the EU treaty guaranteeing the freedom to provide services.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Al Jazeera has denounced Israel's decision to shut down its operations, saying it ran counter to the nation's claim to be democratic.
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Anti-regulation groups and some industry groups, however, raised objections to his efforts, which ran counter to the administration's goal of easing government regulations.
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Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York told the crowd that Trump's order was un-American and ran counter to the country's core values.
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In ways I had not fully understood at the time, I had been filtering out information that ran counter to the narrative I believed.
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He saw work ethic, good listening skills, trust and determination that ran counter to my yearlong reputation of being too casual and overly analytical.
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The president's denial that U.S. consumers would be affected by the spike in tariffs ran counter to the words of his own economic adviser.
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Westpac Chief Executive Brian Hartzer said on Wednesday the government's reforms ran counter to the prudential regulator's objective of making bank balance sheets "unquestionably strong".
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On Tuesday, Taylor told lawmakers that Trump's administration had established an "irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making" that ran counter to stated diplomatic goals.
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U.N. resolutions were clear when it came to North Korean missile launches and China opposed any move that ran counter to them, Lu told reporters.
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Automakers pressed for weaker standards, arguing that the necessary technologies cost too much, would not be ready on time, and ran counter to consumer trends.
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" But the Saudi Arabian ambassador, Faisal Bin Hassan, filed a motion to block the resolution, saying that it "ran counter to our beliefs and culture.
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That year, MICHAEL Michael Kors launched — which ran counter to the price point of his first label and actually continued to sell during the recession.
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Three current employees told Business Insider they felt the move ran counter to the company's socially-conscious branding, with immunocompromised employees less likely to remain.
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The former New York City mayor's call with Maduro in late 2018 ran counter to White House's increasingly hardline approach to Venezuela at the time.
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A paper Mr. Edwards wrote in 2009 ran counter to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2004 that deemed Washington's water safe to drink.
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Those juicy revelations caught other Times reporters by surprise and ran counter to the paper's traditional culture that seeks to keep internal drama in the family.
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Trump campaigned on the idea of a travel ban, sparking criticism that the idea ran counter to American values and concern that it amounted to profiling.
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Still, not all Trump voters agreed with the missile strike, echoing objections from some on the far right that it ran counter to his campaign promises.
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This decision ran counter to everything I was raised to believe in the 1970s and '80s and everything I had done to prepare myself for adulthood.
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Yovanovitch described the extent to which the shadow campaign being pushed by Giuliani and others ran counter to U.S. policy toward the besieged eastern European country.
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More often, the government would simply deny permission for a scientist to speak with reporters if that person's findings ran counter to Mr. Harper's political agenda.
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Xi told Trump in their latest telephone conversation that China resolutely opposed any actions that ran counter to U.N. Security Council resolutions, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
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The goal was to weaken Arab governments and turn the proxy forces against those states if they pursued policies that ran counter to Tehran's interests, he said.
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I doubted he would ever put a criminal justice measure that divided Republicans and ran counter to his conservative political instincts on the floor for a vote.
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Serbia's prime minister, Ana Brnabic, said the formation of a Kosovo army ran counter to efforts at stability in the volatile Balkans, according to The Associated Press.
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A shy young man with the oval face of a Modigliani painting, Williams had a demeanor in person that ran counter to his provocative social-media presence.
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An open letter in January from the Inter Religious Council grouping the country's Muslim, Christian and traditional religious leaders said the bill ran counter to the constitution.
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Furman said that the decision ran counter to the evidence in the record and failed to consider important aspects of the issue while also contradicting established procedures.
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During a time when studios ascribed to Eurocentric aesthetics, Lincoln's choice to wear a short Afro ran counter to the straight-haired, fair-skinned, prototypical femme fatale.
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Peskov said any U.S. preconditions to return the property would be unacceptable for Moscow and said Washington's failure to hand back the compounds ran counter to international law.
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The suggestion ran counter to the current sentiment of Iraqi politics, which favors claiming sovereignty over foreign and domestic policy and staying above the fray in regional conflicts.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the commencement address at his son's ninth-grade graduation last month, bestowing advice that ran counter to many typical commencement speeches.
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The rebels said they would not accept any concessions that ran counter to "the principles of our revolution" and they would support the council to resist such pressure.
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The comments ran counter to recent speculation about a possible deal when Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires later this week.
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, led what Mr. Taylor called a "highly irregular" policymaking channel on Ukraine that ran counter to goals of longstanding American policy.
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But the Republican Senate gains and strong Florida and Georgia gubernatorial showings ran counter to the mainstream media bubble's narrative; elite media would be wise to self-reflect.
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Simply put, the bottom-line benefit wasn't deemed worth the headaches when presented with statements that ran counter to Disney's values, especially for such an image-conscious entity.
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The Supreme Court tells lower courts to determine whether the violation ran counter to "clearly established law," a term that the justices interpret in the narrowest possible ways.
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The advice ran counter to that of many experts with whom I spoke: Iranian human rights specialists, a former Iranian official and at least one State Department official.
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Socialist Realism, the only approved style, ran counter to her experimental tendencies, expressed in large-scale watercolors and gouaches on stitched-together bedsheets that depicted semiabstract biomorphic forms.
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To mollify the lawmakers, Mr. Rosenstein made scores of documents related to those inquiries available, moves that ran counter to law enforcement's reticence to share information about investigations.
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Her remarks ran counter to the Kremlin's account of Butina being forced by the United States to falsely confess to the "ridiculous" charge of being a Russian agent.
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" Two days later, when hard numbers that ran counter to his claims came out, Spicer gave the totally not 20173-esque response "sometimes we can disagree with the facts.
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These new formats contrast with earlier ones that sent people out of its own ecosystem to brands and retailers' own websites, which ran counter to Facebook's interests, she said.
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The reason for considering withdrawing from the court was because of the fact that many of its decisions ran counter to Russia's interests, the sources were cited as saying.
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The ministry said Trump's decision to de-certify the deal would not have a direct impact on implementation of the agreement but that it ran counter to its spirit.
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The comments ran counter to recent speculation about a possible deal when Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires later this week.
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Then-Chief of Naval Operations Vernon E. Clark tasked Sestak with creating solutions that ran counter to conventional wisdom at the time in an effort to modernize the Navy.
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The United States also condemned the intensified bombing of northern Syria and said it ran counter to commitments made by world powers in Munich last week to reduce hostilities.
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It was a typical example of the Arizona senator adopting a position that appeared antithetical to his political interests or ran counter to the perceived wisdom of his party.
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For their part, it was refreshing to see the agency heads conjure the courage to speak the truth, regardless of whether their professional assessments ran counter to the President's.
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The government argued that the disputes ran counter to a major defense offered by the companies — that the deal could enhance competition by creating billions of dollars in savings.
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Those who worked on the Six-Party talks say that Bolton and his staff routinely took steps that ran counter to the Bush administration's stated goals on North Korea.
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The Canadian firm said in August it took the allegations very seriously as they ran counter to its values and high standards, and it supported an investigation into the facts.
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They helped usher through a significant criminal justice reform bill, which ironically ran counter to Trump's "tough on crime" rhetoric and saw little play from Republicans on the campaign trail.
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Claudia Gray, author of the well-received Star Wars novels Lost Stars and Leia, Princess of Alderaan, pointed out that hatred ran counter to the principles of the franchise itself.
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The company designed tweets that could contain up to 10,000 characters but abandoned the design amid concerns that it ran counter to Twitter's identity as a place for brief updates.
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Trump faced intense criticism for choosing Friedman, his former bankruptcy lawyer, as his ambassador to Israel because of previous inflammatory remarks that ran counter to longstanding US policy toward Israel.
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Critics quickly pounced on her latest remarks, saying they ran counter to France's established republican values, which guarantee access to education and other public services to all, regardless of background.
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The F.B.I. statement ran counter to the decidedly low-key approach that Mr. Wray has taken as director, avoiding news media interviews and delivering anodyne speeches to law enforcement groups.
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Kim Kye Gwan, a top official at North Korea's Foreign Ministry, said Trump's decision to cancel the talks ran counter to the global community's wishes for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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Katznelson refers to the first 25 years of Social Security's existence as a form of "policy apartheid" that ran counter to the goals Franklin D. Roosevelt espoused for the New Deal.
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My actions ran counter to the very ideals of respectability, simplicity, and grace that Conrad represents, but I will not, cannot apologize for trying to learn more about Lauren Conrad's fans.
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Mr. Trump's comments ran counter to the actions of Senate Republicans, who have turned back Democrats' attempts to subpoena documents and compel White House officials to testify in the impeachment trial.
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Chief justice Sam Rugege said article 233, which bans the humiliation of national authorities and persons in charge of public service, ran counter to freedom of expression embedded in the constitution.
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There are so many questions in this vein, and the fact that the answers at times ran counter to popular assumptions meant that the work initially hit brick walls in some quarters.
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My point is that Taylor is taking liberties with form and space, lending them an ambiguity that ran counter to the materialism and flatness pursued by much advanced painting at the time.
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"Judge Dick's ruling ran counter to the collective efforts of federal, state, and local regulatory officials, who thoroughly reviewed – and ultimately approved – the Bayou Bridge Pipeline for construction," Friday's court filing said.
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"Judge Dick's ruling ran counter to the collective efforts of federal, state, and local regulatory officials, who thoroughly reviewed – and ultimately approved – the Bayou Bridge Pipeline for construction," Thursday's court filing said.
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Netanyahu claimed that the results of the 2015 nuclear deal — called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — ran counter to its intended goal of blocking Iran's path to a nuclear weapon.
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The ministry's announcement ran counter to the U.S.-headquartered company's claim that its electronic gadget is less likely to cause disease than traditional cigarettes, citing studies conducted in Germany, Japan and China.
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The sentiment, most experts pointed out, ran counter to the facts: People of Color really are disproportionately killed by police; and violence against police seems to be at a multi-decade low.
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Critics of the Michelin system had long said it was biased in favor of French cuisine and a certain type of formal dining that ran counter to Italy's more relaxed mealtime tradition.
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Kenneth Kristl, an associate professor of environmental law at Widener University's Delaware Law School, said the provisions on bulk product transfer risked spills of contaminants and ran counter to the existing law.
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The EU executive wants to avoid a repeat of the legal headaches it faced when it ruled that Gazprom's planned South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea ran counter to EU competition law.
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It ran counter to what most tech leaders were saying and, for some, may have stood as a proxy for Microsoft, whose CEO, Satya Nadella, had yet to publicly opine on the topic.
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Somewhere between a playmate, an affable uncle or grandpa, and a fairy godfather, Rogers's slow and compassionate approach to children's television ran counter to what we typically expect of TV shows for kids.
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Mfundo Madiba, a brand consultant who left St. John's in 2009, said he was appalled by the incident, which ran counter to his experience as a black South African pupil at the school.
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Yes, but: Negroponte did say that he couldn't recall ever having to offer an assessment that ran counter to the White House line — or being challenged so publicly by the commander in chief.
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Her comments ran counter to the progressive immigration platform she ran in her 2016 campaign against Trump, who touted his "America First" views and the building of a wall on the Mexican border.
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Martinez's thinking, however, ran counter to that of England coach Gareth Southgate who made it clear that his squad will be out for victory on Thursday to build momentum ahead the knockout phase.
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HONG KONG — Google pulled some of its core businesses out of China seven years ago, after concluding that government controls and surveillance ran counter to its commitment to a free and open internet.
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I couldn't teach that white director that his concept of how black people respond to slurs ran counter to the truth of my life experience for fear of losing out on a job.
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These films — Bicycle Thieves, most famously, but also the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach in Britain, both of whom Baker lists as major influences — ran counter to the narrative logic of Hollywood.
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He and others, though by no means everyone, viewed it as a skewing of history, he told me recently, feeling it also ran counter to a lot of work the Ascend schools had done.
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"Today, on the second official Rosa Parks Day, we honor a seamstress and a servant, one whose courage ran counter to her physical stature," said Mayor Steven Reed, the city's first African American mayor.
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The state's Fair Pay to Play Act ran counter to the NCAA's rules at the time, giving California college athletes the ability to make money off their name, image and likeness beginning in January 2023.
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Mr. Giuliani's moves also ran counter to a long-running American effort to curb Iran's nuclear program as the United States was trying to punish players, like Mr. Zarrab, who helped the regime evade sanctions.
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Ed Markey The Massachusetts Democrat wants to focus not just on Bolton but also the White House counsel and whether he was familiar with the book's explosive revelations that ran counter to the president's defense.
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Cory Gardner, a Republican, tweeted that the issue "must be left up to the states," ran counter to what he had been previously told by Sessions and threatened to hold up confirmation of DOJ nominees.
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Trump's harsher tone on Friday ran counter to his remarks in Beijing, where he told China's President Xi Jinping that the massive trade deficit between the two nations was the fault of past U.S. presidents.
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They failed, and with the arrival of Mr. Trump, whose "law and order" presidential campaign seemingly ran counter to the spirit of the proposed changes, many believed the effort was unlikely to be revived anytime soon.
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Now investigators are asking him why he pushed a so-called deliverable for the president — an announcement of the investigations — that other officials have said was ethically wrong and ran counter to American national security interests.
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Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain revised her stance on the American directive to take a harder line, while Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy said that Mr. Trump's approach ran counter to basic European principles.
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Mr. Trump mused during his election campaign that the United States could save money if nations like South Korea and Japan developed their own nuclear weapons — comments that ran counter to decades of American nonproliferation policy.
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"The Obama effort to boost Iran's economy not only ran counter to American interests, it skirted the law," Jonathan Schanzer, an Iran expert at the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies think tank, tweeted on Wednesday.
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The revelation of the meetings, which ran counter to his denials during his confirmation hearing that he had met with Russian officials, led Sessions to recuse himself from any investigation involving the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia.
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An artist whose style initially ran counter to the superheroic, Miller brought shadowy crime noir grit to the page — along with a dynamic sense of anatomy and a flair for tortured heroes in the throes of agony.
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That ran counter to signs of a temporary relaxing of Washington's moves against Chinese phone and net gear maker Huawei Technologies on Tuesday, ostensibly in aid of keeping U.S. firms' supply chains working in the near-term.
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An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland told the AP that the court victory Friday forced ICE to end a policy that ran counter to the agency's stated objective of preventing family separations.
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King Abdullah warned Trump of the risks of any decision that ran counter to a final settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
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JAKARTA/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Valentine's Day celebrations on Tuesday were banned by authorities in parts of Indonesia and Pakistan, home to Asia's largest Muslim populations, saying the romantic tradition encouraged casual sex and ran counter to cultural norms.
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In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who announced Kozak's appointment as head of Ukraine policy, also criticized Kiev for making statements which Peskov said ran counter to undertakings given at a peace summit in Paris in December.
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"The workers said that they learned about the reality in South Korea through South Korean TV, soap operas, movies and (the) Internet," he said, implying that this ran counter to Pyongyang's overwhelmingly negative depiction of its longtime rival.
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First, participants had to do a task involving willpower (eating radishes instead of cookies, making a persuasive speech that ran counter to their own beliefs or suppressing their emotions during a clip of the film "Terms of Endearment").
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Although incredibly popular, with 60% approval ratings, Ahok was considered by many to be a divisive figure, by virtue both of his minority status and of his bluntness, which ran counter to Javanese traditions of deference and circumlocution.
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White House national security adviser Susan Rice on Monday condemned in the "strongest terms" the intensified bombing of northern Syria, adding that it ran counter to commitments to reduce hostilities made by major powers last week in Munich.
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In Wednesday's filing, the government argued that the relationship between the companies ran counter to their defense in the case — that the merger would enhance competition because it would result in billions of dollars' worth of cost savings.
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The notion that with the coronavirus pandemic America might be facing a challenge unlike any it had faced in recent history — and, even worse, that it might not be prepared to handle it — ran counter to that narrative.
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The relationship began to sour during the presidential campaign over Mr. Comey's exoneration of Hillary Clinton in the F.B.I.'s investigation of her email practices, which ran counter to Mr. Trump's "Lock her up!" message to his supporters.
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His apparent defense of his two aides — Rob Porter, the staff secretary, and David Sorensen, a speechwriter — ran counter to the White House's portrayal of its response to the accusations of emotional and physical abuse leveled against them.
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Mr. Ackerman said the brief made no mention of several key Supreme Court precedents that he said ran counter to the government's position, and Mr. Remes rejected the government's argument that judges should stay out of war powers disputes.
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" Ghika's comments prompted a rare rebuke from U.S. Central Command hours later, which said the U.K. general's views ran "counter to the identified credible threats available to intelligence from U.S. and allies regarding Iranian-backed forces in the region.
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Other significant Chinese performance artists in the last two decades include Zhu Yu, whose act featured him biting into a stillborn human baby, and Ma Liuming, whose explicit explorations into sexual identity ran counter to a ban on public nudity.
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During those calls, according to the indictment, Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia and asked Kislyak to help delay a U.N. vote seen as damaging to Israel, a move that ran counter to the policies of then-President Barack Obama.
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The outspoken Zeman has often ran counter to government policy on a number of issues and has even called for referendums on Czech membership of the European Union and NATO, although he has said he would back staying in both.
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But as they settled into this new genre of music, they turned the mirror on their own country, highlighting the struggles of everyday Russians, offering a narrative that ran counter to the tightly controlled messaging put forth by the Kremlin.
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EPA hired Wright last year to be an adviser despite the Senate not having a chance to vote on his nomination, which Democrats said ran counter to the Senate's constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on senior officials' nominations.
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The statement ran counter to what senior intelligence officials had previously promised both publicly and in private briefings during the previous administration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat, lawmakers and congressional staffers working on drafting reforms to Section 702 said.
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The project was emblematic of his approach to legislating: It represented an ability to take a long view about complex issues, ran counter to the inclinations of many of his fellow Republicans and was built on a foundation of bipartisan cooperation.
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Even Mr. Trump's call for scaling back "endless wars" ran counter to his decision just days earlier to deploy 3,000 troops to Saudi Arabia because of tensions with Iran (which have flared since the president scuttled the Iran nuclear deal).
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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany expressed solidarity on Friday with the four Democratic congresswomen whom President Trump told to "go back" to the countries they came from, saying the remarks ran counter to her impression of what makes America strong.
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During those calls, according to the indictment, Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia and asked Kislyak to help delay a U.N. vote seen as damaging to Israel, a move that ran counter to the policies of then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat.
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She rejected the notion that ripping up her copy of the speech was an act of incivility after a reporter asked if it ran counter to the message she delivers when she frequently counsels her members to maintain dignity in House proceedings.
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In November, two Princeton economists found that middle-aged whites with a high school education had significantly increasing mortality due to factors including substance abuse, afflictions and suicides that ran counter to the declining mortality rates of other Americans and white Europeans.
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Grassley had previously issued three earlier deadlines (Friday at 10am, 5 pm, and then 10 pm) for a response from Ford, which Katz argued were "aggressive and artificial" and ran counter to claims that the panel wanted to genuinely consider Ford's perspective.
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Mr. Percoco's role in helping the Senate Democrats, elements of which were reported by Politico New York, ran counter to Mr. Cuomo's actions in the past; despite his promises of support, he did little that year to publicly assist the Democratic candidates.
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And while investor anxiety ahead of French presidential elections in April and May has seen some flight to German from French government debt in recent weeks, the two-year Schatz move ran counter to a rise in 10-year bund yields on Tuesday.
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Senator Angus King, a political independent from Maine who caucuses with Senate Democrats, responded by explaining why the top U.S. military officer must feel empowered to correct a president or explain something that ran counter to the president's desired course of action.
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Mr. Trump's decision to back Mr. Strange in the first place ran counter to the advice of some of the president's advisers, who had privately argued that Mr. Trump should not expend precious political capital in support of a candidate who could lose.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday he wanted to help Prime Minister Theresa May as much as possible but that EU leaders could not offer her any guarantees that ran counter to what was already agreed in Brexit talks.
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MEXICO CITY, May 8 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday criticized a U.S. decision to impose a 17.5% tariff on tomatoes imported from Mexico, saying it ran counter to efforts to curb migration into the United States from south of the border.
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Last month, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed that a Justice Department-commissioned report from last year had found that some of Sessions' moves to overhaul the system ran counter to its recommendations, such as requiring judges to process a target amount of cases.
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It wants to avoid a repeat of the legal headaches it faced when it ruled that Russian gas giant Gazprom's planned South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea ran counter to EU competition law, challenging a web of bilateral deals Russia cut with eastern European states.
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It's not clear why Google decided to shut the separate portal but there are some signs that Google Showtimes what not much of a blockbuster for the company, and perhaps even ran counter to how Google sees some of its bigger developments in search and media.
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Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which advocates for reducing deficits and debt, noted that increasing the deficits during a time of growth ran counter to mainstream economic thinking that calls for cutting deficits until the economy needs stimulus in a downturn.
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Their support ran counter to the statements of other influential white evangelical Christian leaders, who said they found Trump's remarks about his treatment of women distasteful and were unsettled by his relative silence on social issues like gay and lesbian rights and access to legal abortion during the campaign.
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It ran counter to Trump's contention that there was no quid pro quo - a Latin phrase meaning a favor for a favor - related to the $83 million in security assistance approved by the U.S. Congress to help combat Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that Trump had withheld.
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Trump similarly broke from his advisers' guidance when he threatened to shut down the government over funding for his border wall -- a threat that ran counter to what sources said the President promised during a meeting last week with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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The top officers of the Navy, the Marines, the Army, the Air Force and the National Guard had come out one by one after the violence in Charlottesville to say that racism, hatred and extremism had no place in the military, and ran counter to its most important values.
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He and others believe that the flood of works that may be coming to institutions around the country in the next decade could broaden the definition of postmodern art, which is loosely defined as art from the mid-1970s onward that ran counter to the precepts of traditional Modernism.
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Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, was establishing contacts on the ground in Ukraine — including with the former top prosecutor whom U.S. officials believed was not credible — and conducting what several witnesses for the impeachment inquiry described as a shadow diplomatic effort that ran counter to U.S. goals and interests.
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Greatly influenced by the European avant-garde and the renewed interest in classicism, many artists associated with this group focused on portraiture, depicting Mexico City's flappers and members of the homosexual community in a celebration of cosmopolitanism that ran counter to the mural painters' disdain for bourgeois individualism.
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Experts Trump hired to run his various enterprises repeatedly hit walls when their advice ran counter to Trump's gut instincts or his vision of success, like when Trump aimed to convert the commuter airline he purchased into a luxury experience, even as passengers made clear they overwhelmingly prized efficiency and reliability.
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When Donald J. Trump suggested this week that recent court rulings against voter identification laws could contribute to a "rigged" election this fall, his comments ran counter to the findings of many judges and researchers, who say such statutes aim at a form of fraud that is rare and typically isolated.
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In an uncommonly harsh statement, the State Department "strongly condemned" the move, asserting that it violated Israel's pledge not to construct new settlements and ran counter to the long-term security interests Israel was seeking to protect with the military deal, which provides $38 billion in assistance over the next decade.
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This was a view that ran counter to the New Criticism, the dominant literary theory in midcentury America that put aside matters like historical context and author's intentions and rather saw literature as a series of texts to be closely analyzed, their meaning to be found in language and structure.
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Cohen told the House Oversight and Reform Committee in February that he briefed both Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump on the project about 10 times, a statement that ran counter to Trump Jr.'s previous 85033 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was only "peripherally aware" of the potential deal.
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Somewhere between a playmate, an affable uncle or grandpa, and a fairy godfather, Rogers's slow and compassionate approach to children's television ran counter to what we typically expect of TV shows for kids; there are no bright, flashy, fast-moving cartoons or slapstick humor in his neighborhood, just simple, direct conversation and storytelling.
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Kent's testimony provides new insight into how then-US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland worked with Giuliani on Ukraine, as well as the reactions inside the State Department to Giuliani's efforts that Kent and others say ran counter to US foreign policy.
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The Guards statement, published on Wednesday by Sepah News, ran counter to a statement by President Hassan Rouhani who said earlier that the strikes were authorised by the Supreme National Security Council, which includes the heads of the three branches of government as well as the head of the Guards and other ministers.
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Though it was expected, the decision came as a disappointment to the students and faculty, as well as a dozen or so Democrats in the Virginia legislature, who opposed the name change out of concern that it would tie the university to a conservative justice whose views, they thought, ran counter to its educational mission.
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But Pyongyang suddenly changed its tune Wednesday, telling South Korea it was suspending high-level talks scheduled for later that day in response to joint air force drills held by Seoul and Washington, which it said ran counter to last month's declaration between the Koreas that they would cease hostile acts against each other.
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For an example of how the views of a few hand-picked independent experts can be channeled to further a particular corporate agenda look no further than the panel of outsiders Google assembled in Europe in 2014 in response to the European Court of Justice 'right to be forgotten' ruling — an unappealable legal decision that ran counter to its business interests.
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Last week, it emerged that Facebook had received a letter from no less than three secretaries general — Martin Selmayr from the European commission, Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen from the Council of the EU and Klaus Welle from the European Parliament — which took it to task specifically over its election advertising policy, and how it actually ran counter to the purpose of a union of countries, as the European Union is.
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It was significant also because, as I was to write, it "juts out of the landscape" of Lyndon Johnson's life "as one of the few episodes in it and perhaps the only one that ran counter to his personal ambition"; he was, in the words of one observer, "taking one hell of a chance" with the man in his district who was perhaps most important to his continuation in office.
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She discussed scenarios from health care to education, from business IT to third-party developers, and from cloud to on-premises as ways IBM is working to contribute to and support the use of AI. Most interesting were the efforts IBM is making to provide open source or freely available solutions, which Rometty said ran counter to IBM's history, but were essential to see the company moving forward.
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