How To Use Diametric In A Sentence

Definitions of what was at stake were thus diametrically opposed.
Such are your own and your friends’ impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery — too volatile and versatile — too flowery and coloury. Villette
And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Where direct determination is to be performed, a variety of test methods (including repeated load triaxial, indirect diametrical tensile and unconfined compression) are available.
This blows from the point where the sun sets at the summer solstice, and is the only wind that is diametrically opposite to Eurus. Meteorology

Such are your own and your friends 'impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery -- too volatile and versatile -- too flowery and coloury. Villette
And to hear the diametric reactions between Muslim men and Muslim women, who have a completely different reason for and enjoying the film or being upset by the film. Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto
There are two diametrically opposing poles of opinion on this highly political and racially-charged issue.
By continuing to give our political support to an administration whose actions have demonstrated a diametrical * opposition* to that “narrative”? Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
I have no idea how he reconciles these two diametrically opposed stances.
Politicians offer diametrically opposed summations of vital world scenarios and present it all as fact.
The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed? Memorabilia
The most curious feature of the performance is that here again it is from end to end a travesty of Éliphas Lévi, slice after slice from his chief writings, combined with interlineal additions, which give them a sense diametrically opposed to that of the great magus. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
This is perhaps the diametric opposite of The Path. This is how we should talk to kids - Anil Dash
when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?
It also became clear that diametrically opposed opinions of and attitudes towards integration could quite easily be found within a local authority.
A clash of diametrically opposed philosophies is never settled rapidly nor, necessarily, rationally.
As so many of you do, you picked a username diametrically opposed to who you really are. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
At the present time the old racial instincts are actively powerful, and exert an influence diametrically opposed to climatic surroundings; and, as a matter of fact, we are witnessing a struggle between our Anglo – Saxon heredities and our Australian environment. The Art of Living in Australia
But they draw diametrically opposed conclusions as to the meaning of this link.
“The country took its biggest step ever down a road diametrically opposed to its original intent of keeping the state small so that the individual can be free andgreat.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill
Sometimes we are diametrically opposed to each other.
I still regard myself as an environmentalist but I often find myself in almost diametrical disagreement with most of those who professionally use that title.
Syria is almost the diametrical opposite of all that. Dr. Josef Olmert: Arab Spring: R.I.P.?
The signification of the 7th house for opponents and ‘opposite numbers’ - both in love and war - can to some extent be explained by its diametrical aspect to the ascendant.
I'd offer some cogent analysis at this point, but I'm torn between two diametrically opposed viewpoints.
But this misses the real distinction between diametrically opposed beliefs based on entirely different conceptions of the satisfaction of human needs.
Gentleman has much about which to be modest without inventing modesties that are diametrically opposed to the facts at hand, and, though the Rt. The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:
I would note that this specific theme is generally a matter which we have been discussing recently, and it is a very necessary subject to address indeed for wherever there are elements which would adopt principles which put them in diametric opposition, be it to the one or the other form of the Roman liturgy, to the Magisterium, to the Holy Father, or to the Church generally, or which would adopt a spirit of rupture and discontinuity over one of continuity and reform in continuity, this is assuredly not the right path and needs to be corrected. The Tablet, the LMS, the Usus Antiquior and the Foreword of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
The rum-shop and grocery that stood on the diametrical axis, across Old St Joseph Road from our front-bedroom, was frequently robbed.
The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny. VERWOERD'S GRIM PLOT
The Sextons dub this syndrome "conspicuous conservation," which is directly diametrical to "conspicuous consumption" -- our current materialistic cultural orientation that contributes mightily to the unsustainable exploitation of the earth's natural resources. Edward Flattau: Conspicuous Conservation
But Cameroni concludes that since the stimulus efforts have failed to put needed money back into the money supply, the stimulus program should be abandoned in favor of its diametrical opposite -- belt-tightening austerity. Ellen Brown: Deficit Terrorists Strike in the United Kingdom: United States of America Next?
Short isodiametric parenchyma cells could be distinguished amongst expanding longer cells.
Among the small pool of swing voters in this fall's election, there are two groups with diametrically opposed political views.
Alex is almost the diametric opposite of Kylie.
The City's response from Corporation Counsel Georges was unusual in its rapidity and in diametric contrast to its usual hard-line stance against protesters. Andy Thayer: Important Legal Victory for Chicago LGBT Rights Activists and Secularists
diametrical (or opposite) points of view
He rules on behalf of an international financial oligarchy, whose political interests are diametrically opposed to that of the mass of the population.
But they draw diametrically opposed conclusions as to the meaning of this link.
In essence, the founding giants of the computer industry were diametrically opposed in both platform and product.
This is a key point, since there is the potential for diametrically opposed viewpoints on park usage between these two groups.
The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At first glance the literary and scientific approaches to language might seem to be diametrically opposed.
Stephen said it represented the perfect expression of two diametrically contrary personalities. COMPULSION
Some small diametrical holes of the automobile parts are induction hardened successfully with a U-shaped induction coil. This paper presents the design and manufacture of such a coil.
Your needs and those of a partner are diametrically opposed. THE MANANA MAN
So people who were completely diametrically opposed in their views and their perceptions about a situation were brought together.
And of course, in this sense, the Socrates story is the diametric opposite of the Croesus story.
Cultures, philosophies and religions of the world that appear diametrically opposed, subjected to the unknown perhaps the true leveler of egocentricity, rendering all of us mere fragments and preventing our mass destruction. Kevin Bermeister: How Atheists And Believers Approach The Known And Unknown
The two were diametrically opposed perspectives.
I regret to say we're diametrically opposed to your ideas.
The description "Forces" is in itself inadequate since it conjures up the idea of a military operation in the traditional sense, while the reality is in many ways the diametric opposite. The Nobel Peace Prize 1988 - Presentation Speech
Epidermal cells are isodiametric in the laminar portions of the leaf and distinctly elongate above the veins.
It is the ability to integrate and harmonize diametrically opposed views or states of being.
Notus blowing from O is its contrary; for this point is the south and O is contrary to H, being diametrically opposite to it. Meteorology
A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer, diametrically opposite the zenith.
three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three
By continued cell divisions and enlargement of daughter cells, this tissue with its isodiametric cells rapidly expanded in both radial and tangential directions.
in diametric contradiction to his claims
There was also a framed picture of "The House"; a tambourine painted with purple iris by Miss Isabel's own hands; an old bannerette in cross-stitch pendent from the mantelpiece, a collection of paper mats, shaded from orange to white, the glass-covered vase of wax flowers which had attracted Ron's notice, one or two cheap china vases, a pot of musk placed diametrically in the centre of a wicker table, a sofa, and two Big Game A Story for Girls
He was a reconciler, someone who had, in his own person, reconciled so much in the world that seemed diametrically opposed. Adam Neiman: The Blame Game
Other available test methods include axial compression (UCS based) and indirect diametrical tensile testing, which is preferred by Austab.
He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be.
But such a libertarianism would not be the libertarianism we know and would find most of what goes by the name diametrically opposed to its essential spirit and goals. Ladies and gentlemen, the Libertarian Party candidate for the President of the United States of America
This is the diametric opposite of the truth. Times, Sunday Times
This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy. Archive 2007-11-25
They are more or less angular, and while elongated transversely at first, become nearly isodiametric as the pileus becomes fully expanded, passing from an elongated form to rectangular, or sinuous in outline, the margin more or less upturned, especially in age, when they begin to loosen and "peel" from the surface of the cap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
But what passes for secularism in India is often the diametrical opposite of what goes by the same name in the West.
The two ideas are diametrically opposed.
Where direct determination is to be performed, a variety of test methods (including repeated load triaxial, indirect diametrical tensile and unconfined compression) are available.
As flubby notes, "Jesus Christ, what do you call the diametric opposite of trolling? Deadspin
This is a key point, since there is the potential for diametrically opposed viewpoints on park usage between these two groups.
Our views are diametrically opposed on this issue.
For some liberal critics, like Vice President Joe Biden a man who participated in countless filibusters in 36 years in the Senate or the New York Times editorial board, this is a posture of pure opportunism diametrically opposed to how they viewed the value of the legislative filibuster during the Bush presidency, while others, like Mickey Kaus, have long argued that the legislative filibuster* should go because of its role in obstructing progressive legislation. The Legislative Filibuster: Democracy’s Sobriety Checkpoint | RedState
And so glamour attached itself to a man whose very essence was the diametrical opposite. Times, Sunday Times
And development of China represents that of a constructive force at no denial of anyone's fundamental interests, which constitutes another diametric difference with the other powers in history.
In short, he was nearly the diametric opposite of Belinda, which made the prospect of such a union even more amusing to me. Olivia
This results in a 33% approval rating, but lumps too hot with too cold, which are diametrically opposed results thrown into the same 66% "disapprove" group. The Rasmussen "Presidential Approval Index": Is This Newer Measurement Worth Anything?
He is conscious that at the moment the British press have warmed to him, intrigued by the diametric polarities between his personality and Trevor's.
None of these things is wrong; in fact they are as right as their diametrical opposite. Times, Sunday Times
On the contrary it is in diametrical opposition to it.
Thus the same metaphor can lead to diametrically opposite understandings.
So we have a bunch of harmonies with no functional relationship to each other, and a couple of diametrically opposed tempi jammed together with a fermata. Archive 2006-09-01
Weighing these two diametrically opposed reactions, juveniles may be unable to accurately select between two extreme bipolar adjectives to describe themselves through their parents' eyes.
Only a system of taking Christ's words "contrariwise" can make them useful as civil rules, and even "oriental exaggeration" can scarcely be credited with saying the diametrically contrary of its real meaning. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
When two such diametrically opposed yet astute observers agree, you can bet the politicians are sweating bullets.
Machine operators achieve sub-micron tolerances on cylindricity, which is then match-fit to similar diametrical tolerances.
Our views are diametrically opposed on this issue.
‘The only way you can write something that survives is that someone who's your diametrical opposite can agree with it,’ says Jimmy Wales, a founder of Wikipedia.
It can be argued that the law of armed conflict and human rights law have diametrically opposed, or at least incompatible, axiologies.
Search for the clusters of these small, more or less isodiametric cells.
You can't be for protecting or strengthening Social Security and also be for private accounts since the two goals are diametrically opposed, inimical to each other.
Sparks would likely fly in such an encounter as the two have been known to hold diametrically opposed visions on the role of English in Quebec.
They came to conclusions diametrically opposed to ours.
The agendas of science and the animal rights lobby are diametrically opposed.
Though it’s understandable how a culture that invented the term machismo might be uncomfortable lionizing a gay icon, it’s ironic that Morrissey has now been adopted by two diametrically opposed subcultures. Chuck Klosterman on Pop
This message sits in diametric opposition to some who have been warning that Wahhabists and other foreign radicals are infiltrating American prisons for recruitment into international terrorist rings. SpearIt: Radical Islam In Prison: Made In The USA
Why are they so diametrically opposed to each other?
The contrast to Washington's current political climate is as diametrical as the opposite seasons of the two countries.
Our views are diametrically opposed on this issue.
What is happening in aviation is the diametric opposite of what we expected in 1978," Mr. Oberstar said. EU Transport Official Urges Looser Airline Rules
In one variant of the receiver, the coils are collinear and are wound about cores that are mounted in pairs of diametrically opposed apertures in the housing of the probe.
He feels that his Christian beliefs and the principle of capitalism are diametrically opposed.
With some exceptions, these two narratives - India's "premodern" religiosity, and its growing economy - are often presented as diametric opposites, simply unrelated, or the first and last points on something like a scale of modernity. Book Review Roundup
Here then the first mate and the captain are diametrically opposed.
As I see it and as I think the articles in this issue indicate, these two positions are neither diametrically opposed nor contradictory.
They actually contrast, in fact they are diametric opposites.
Clearly, there is a diametric difference of opinion as to whether the handling of the BTC sale conformed to the law, with the Government and the would-be buyers insisting that it did, and their detractors insisting that it did not.
Astronomy A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer diametrically opposite the zenith.
As to the latter, the Jenkins and Diamond Reports took diametrically opposed positions.
Established in 1994, it was thought by some to be on the same terpsichorean level as the famous Perm Ballet, even though the two companies, which shared the same theater, were diametrically opposed in their views of dance.
The two politicians have diametrically opposite points of view/are diametrically opposed.
The impulse for any composer who uses minimalism as a style today – whether you're Thom Yorke or Nico Muhly – is the diametrical opposite of what Reich and Riley were up to half a century ago. Minimalism at 50: how less became more
But there's something more sensuous about "invigilation," the way it rolls off the tongue, something that's diametrically opposed to the definition of the word itself. New fiction: invigilation
In a case where two propositions are diametrically opposite, the mind believes that which is least incomprehensible; — it is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it: if the mind sinks beneath the weight of one, is it an alleviation to increase the intolerability of the burthen? The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are frequent attempts to equate pornography and eroticism, two diametrically opposed uses of the sexual.
According to Djoko, the two bills were diametrically opposed.
DeMille had great enthusiasm for the work of directors who were his diametric opposites: the exquisite Fabergé miniatures of Lubitsch, the poeticized emotionalism of Capra. Empire of Dreams
I chose these diametrically opposed papers on the basis that they would give me a balanced view when answering the boards' questions.
As I see it and as I think the articles in this issue indicate, these two positions are neither diametrically opposed nor contradictory.
At the present time the old racial instincts are actively powerful, and exert an influence diametrically opposed to climatic surroundings; and, as a matter of fact, we are witnessing a struggle between our Anglo-Saxon heredities and our Australian environment. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
Movement is clearly articulated across the surface plane, diametrically opposed to the spatial complexi - ties in depth of the baroque. NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART
The principles of capitalism and socialism are diametrically opposed .
Can one fail to see that lyricism is the diametric opposite to the cult of strength and power and, in an utterly natural manner, offers itself as a corrective to our tendency to resolve society's problems by forcible means and through power struggles, through technological, financial, organizational, political, and physical power - power that, in any case, is ultimately merely a product of incomplete insight («ein Produkt unvollständiger Einsicht»)? Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture
Lester Bangs and Ian MacDonald have more than that in common, although in many ways they were diametrical opposites.
These species had roots with uniseriate epidermis and cortex with isodiametric cells.
I'm trying to decide whether when faced with someone who "ideologically" diametrically opposes your view, but verbally completely supports your ideals and acts in essentially the way you act, you disillusion them of the idea that they have a different ideological view. Breaking News: Vegetarians Discover Guilt-Free Meat
More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
In practice, the German Greens - who appear to be the main authors of this document - have been acting in diametrical opposition to these proclaimed aims.
They both remembered their paternal grandmother but with diametrically opposed reactions.
The Spaniard and the Indian are diametrically opposed.
I regret to say we're diametrically opposed to your ideas.
It involved the clash of two diametrically opposed historical perspectives.
He's got stuff you can't get anywhere else and is constantly adding new items, like axially - and diametrically-magnetized NIB wedding rings and radially-magnetized ring magnets. Boing Boing
In some ways Lewis's theory is the diametric opposite of the equally clear-cut theory first proposed by Jaakko Hintikka (that Cubism is rigorously and defensibly realism) - a theory Lewis in effect ascribes to Clark.
We can identify our vision simply as the diametrical opposite to the neo-conservative fantasies animating this country's foreign policy today.
The performances are also evil, of this character, personality diametrically opposed brothershave vivid interpretation.
The length is longer, the influence of diametrical error is more, moreover the semi-finished products'section exist different shape errors.
These ideologically diametrical right and left poles of Pakistani politics are held together only one common trait: their common elitist nihilism. Syed Yahya Hussainy: Sometimes Madness Is Just Madness
My friends and colleagues who are interested in alignments say they keep finding things which point towards either 125 degrees magnetic or to its diametric opposite (125+180= 305).
Both diametrical and radial defect lines are found within the DNA cholesteric spherulites studied.
From the outset the SEP has made clear that it stands in diametrical opposition to the two bourgeois parties and all their apologists.
The NSO players are plainly in thrall to Eschenbach, whose qualities are diametrically opposed to his predecessor, Leonard Slatkin. Eschenbach, Tetzlaff, Bruckner: The fresh and less familiar faces of the NSO
We hold diametrically opposed views.
Sometimes we are diametrically opposed to each other.
You'd think it would be the diametric opposite but it isn't, which is just baffling. Times, Sunday Times
North American audiences will be exposed to two diametrically opposed interpretations of the material when he brings the project to their towns.
After we'd sniffed around each other a bit to establish our diametrically opposed positions, he challenged me with one of the feebler bits of rhetoric the faithful adopt to clinch the argument.
In FIG.9, both gadroons are diametrically brought closer to each other against two opposite concavities of the raised element.
Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.

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