at variance in English

in a state of disagreement; contradictory

Use "at variance" in a sentence

1. We are at variance about our lodger.

2. My ideas are at variance with his.

3. This idealistic concept is at variance with reality.

4. The Spirit reconciles men who were at variance.

5. These conclusions are totally at variance with the evidence.

6. Besides, her explanations were at variance with church teaching.

7. This theory is at variance with the known facts.

8. The results are often at variance with the clinical diagnosis.

9. Many of his statements were at variance with the facts.

10. Jill and Sue are at variance over/about their lodger.

11. 4 The question of woman suffrage sets them at variance.

12. The political situation there was equally at variance with our preconceptions.

13. Her current statement is at variance with what she said July

14. Cabinet's vision of the Task Force was at variance with Heseltine's own ideas.

15. Tradition and culture are often at variance with the needs of modern living.

16. This analysis is therefore totally at variance with that of Bacon and Eltis.

17. If anything stands at variance with the evidence, it is this system of beliefs.

18. There is likely to be material that is at variance with your own views.

19. Today, also, many traditional beliefs are ‘at variance with the very writings of the apostles.’

20. This shows a Spartan caution which is at variance with their previous bellicosity over Samos.

21. Nothing is said to antagonize the hearers or make them feel at variance with him.

22. Young people's reactions to world events are often at variance with those of their parents.

23. This, too, was something which was completely at variance with the known laws of nature.

24. This was at variance with the Eurocheque system as exempted by the Commission in 19

25. Some found themselves at variance with the Prophet Joseph Smith and fell away from the Church.

26. A Crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held that it is considered ludicrous.

27. The text seems dully at variance with the fantasy of the illustrations and falls between two stools.

28. Contradictory: adjective abjuratory, absonant, adverse , antagonistic , antithetical , asserting the contrary , asserting the opposite , at odds , at variance

29. It is acting at variance even with its own laws, which exclude such encroachments on private property.

30. Here, modern concepts of diplomacy and international relations are often at variance with those of this period.

31. The Communists were at variance with all their previous allies and there was room for an alternative viewpoint.

32. One who interposes between two parties at variance to reconcile them; an intercessor; an intermediary agent, or go-between.

33. A local candidate at variance with the national campaign may please the press but it rarely wins the people.

34. But whatever the degree of accuracy, they convey a global message completely at variance with the party's narrow patriotism.

35. But this is making demands which are wildly at variance with the methodology and history of the experimental sciences.

36. As long as your interests and mine were at variance I could give you no counsel on this subject.

37. At the very least you should consult two historians whose views you know to be opposed or at variance.

38. It is quite clear that this thread of non-incrimination is at variance with the recent emphasis on obtaining confession evidence.

39. But it has been further seen that strong justification is needed for adopting a system at variance with prevailing medical views.

40. Some consider the Gospel accounts to be at variance with respect to the animal Jesus rode on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

41. “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

42. 3:16) Other Christians, though, have accepted jury duty but have asked to be excused from those cases where they felt their Bible-based thinking would be at variance with secular laws.

43. This result, at variance with the famous "reverse metamorphism model," better explains the abnormal metamorphic superpositions in the Himalayas and accounts for the lack of high-pressure assemblages under the thick, allochtonous High Himalaya Tibetan slab.

44. 1:8: “Even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond [“at variance with,” NE] what we declared to you as good news, let him be accursed.”

45. This page shows answers to the clue Contradictory, followed by 9 definitions like “Affirming the contrary”, “Inconsistent in itself” and “Opposing or opposed”.Synonyms for Contradictory are for example at odds, at variance and differing.More synonyms can be found below the puzzle answers.

46. Absurdity: 1 n a ludicrous folly “the crowd laughed at the Absurdity of the clown's behavior” Synonyms: fatuity , fatuousness , silliness Type of: folly , foolishness , unwiseness the trait of acting stupidly or rashly n a message whose content is at variance with reason Synonyms: absurdness , ridiculousness Type of: bunk , hokum ,

47. The Member State concerned shall without delay notify these measures to the other Member States, and to the Commission, which may decide that the Member State concerned must amend or abolish such measures, insofar as they distort competition and adversely affect trade in a manner which is at variance with the common interest

48. Suppose, then, that the expressions defining the authority of the convention were irreconcilably at variance with each other; that a NATIONAL and Adequate GOVERNMENT could not possibly, in the judgment of the convention, be affected by ALTERATIONS and PROVISIONS in the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION; which part of the definition ought to have been embraced, and which rejected?

49. Alienate (v.) "make estranged" (in feelings or affections), 1540s, from Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare "to make another's, part with; estrange, set at variance," from alienus "of or belonging to another person or place," from alius "another, other, different," from PIE root *al-(1) "beyond." Related: Alienated; alienating

50. Conform: 1 v be similar, be in line with Antonyms: depart , deviate , diverge , vary be at variance with; be out of line with Types: scan Conform to a metrical pattern v adapt or Conform oneself to new or different conditions Synonyms: adapt , adjust Types: show 12 types hide 12 types readapt , readjust adjust anew readapt adapt anew