run counter to

Idioms  

1. Be in conflict with, oppose, as in Practice often runs counter to theory. This idiom, first recorded in 1843, uses counter in the sense of “in an opposite direction.”

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Example Sentences

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

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

“The measures in Action 5 run counter to the state’s efforts to bolster commercial and recreational fishing by supporting healthy populations of Chinook salmon — harming the California communities that rely on salmon for their livelihood.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

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