run counter to
Example Sentences
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In the latest stress point, CSU has objected to 16 community college degree proposals, contending that they run counter to state law provisions designed to protect its own university degree offerings.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
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
The wearing of white buckskin boots was one of the privileges of the First Eleven, and Linklater had run counter to custom and habit again.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
