How to Use contra in a Sentence

contra

noun

• The author is not dead, contra Roland Barthes—but how, then, to deal with Naipaul and his ilk?
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 Aug. 2018
• At the time, North helped figure out a way to get the contras that support without Congress.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 May 2018
• Iran-contra, the Whitewater probe that became the Lewinsky probe—have a way of expanding.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 19 May 2017
• Iran-contra was about whether Ronald Reagan secretly traded arms for hostages.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 21 June 2017
• Mr. Aronson backed military aid for the contras, but wanted them to commit to protecting human rights.
  — William Neuman, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
• That’s why the president, contra Never Trump, is the fitting leader for the Republican Party.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 5 June 2017
• Organizer Eli Malone was invited by a friend, and the space was their first introduction to contra.
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• Looks like the good old-fashioned square dance, AKA contra dancing, accompanied by a fiddle and a helpful caller, could keep older brains firing on all pistons.
  — Monte Whaley, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
• He was involved in many of his era’s highest-profile scandals, including Iran-contra and the Marcos family’s effort to spirit money out of the Philippines.
  — Stephen Kinzer, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• The Reagan administration supported the cause of the rebels, known as contras, but Congress stopped the U.S. from supporting them financially.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 May 2018
• At the time Ronald Reagan was backing contras to overthrow the revolutionary government, which had deposed the Somoza dictatorship in the late 1970s.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
• When the operation unraveled in 1986, after a contra supply plane was shot down, Mr. Posada turned to private security work in Guatemala.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• Those twin developments -- coming hard on top of one another -- go a long way to disrupting the White House's preferred narrative that, contra to what the media reports, Trump has been super, super tough on Russia.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
• Un conductor apartó la mirada para leer un texto y se estrelló contra ellos y contra otro hombre, empujando a Mitchell al río.
  — Erika Pasantes Y John Maines, El Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2018
• North worked with national security adviser John Poindexter to create a secure communication channel to handle messages regarding arms sales to Iran and the transfer of money to the contras, a militant group in Nicaragua.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 7 May 2018
• But, contra ProPublica’s initial reporting (and mine), that wasn’t really the case with the offensive targeting terms allowed by Facebook’s advertising tool.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Un ex-convicto participa contra su voluntad en peleas clandestinas para ganar dinero para la operación de una joven.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Another is that pulling out of the deal would create fractures with allies who continue to back it; withdrawing would destroy American credibility, and contra Trump there is little chance of renegotiating at better terms.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
• The dehumanization and torture of people simply seeking a better way of life, fleeing what climate change and American imperialism have wrought, is contra to every purportedly American value.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
• The author is not dead, contra Roland Barthes—but how, then, to deal with Naipaul and his ilk?
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 Aug. 2018
• At the time, North helped figure out a way to get the contras that support without Congress.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 May 2018
• Iran-contra, the Whitewater probe that became the Lewinsky probe—have a way of expanding.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 19 May 2017
• Iran-contra was about whether Ronald Reagan secretly traded arms for hostages.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 21 June 2017
• Mr. Aronson backed military aid for the contras, but wanted them to commit to protecting human rights.
  — William Neuman, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
• That’s why the president, contra Never Trump, is the fitting leader for the Republican Party.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 5 June 2017
• Organizer Eli Malone was invited by a friend, and the space was their first introduction to contra.
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• Looks like the good old-fashioned square dance, AKA contra dancing, accompanied by a fiddle and a helpful caller, could keep older brains firing on all pistons.
  — Monte Whaley, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
• He was involved in many of his era’s highest-profile scandals, including Iran-contra and the Marcos family’s effort to spirit money out of the Philippines.
  — Stephen Kinzer, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• The Reagan administration supported the cause of the rebels, known as contras, but Congress stopped the U.S. from supporting them financially.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 May 2018
• At the time Ronald Reagan was backing contras to overthrow the revolutionary government, which had deposed the Somoza dictatorship in the late 1970s.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017

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