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run counter to





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Police leaders, civil rights advocates and other experts say the actions of immigration officials and agents run counter to law enforcement’s best practices.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 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 truth satisfaction may run counter to any moral or esthetic satisfaction in the particular case.

From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring