The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contrary \Con"tra*ry\, n.; pl. Contraries.
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A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave.
--Shak. An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.
--Locke.-
(Logic) See Contraries.
On the contrary, in opposition; on the other hand.
--Swift.To the contrary, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the other side. ``They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary.''
--Bp. Stillingfleet.
Wiktionary
prep.phr. (alternative form of on the contrary English)
WordNet
adv. contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily, contrariwise, on the contrary]
Wikipedia
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbé is PBS’s all women news-analysis program. The show airs weekly on over 251 PBS stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Voice of America TV. It was created by host Bonnie Erbé and is produced by Persephone Productions in Washington, D.C.. Cari Weiss Stein is executive producer of To the Contrary. Luis Mazariegos has been the producer since 2013.
For the first six years of broadcast the show was filmed at the Maryland Public Television studios in Owings Mills, Maryland.
Launched on April 1, 1992, each week the show features four female panelists from various backgrounds including politicians, journalists, activists, and professional commentators. These women, with host and moderator Bonnie Erbé, discuss various issues in the news, mainly affecting women, children, families and communities of color. It is a half hour program.
The show tries to focus on how the news affects people, not simply politics.
Usage examples of "to the contrary".
Despite any rumors to the contrary the sharks in Lahaina Roads are not vegetarians.
Although he knew she would have argued to the contrary, pointing out with that chilly, distancing manner she almost always adopted towards him these days that since she was no longer a part of his life, nor he of hers, there was no reason or purpose to have him hold any views about anything she did, he was quite extraordinarily proud of her and all that she had achieved, not just in establishing her business and turning it into such a successful venture, but he was proud of her and for her in many other ways, as well.
For all the assur-ances to the contrary, he might well be detected long before he got into those secret laboratories at Santa Fe, and it would not go happily for him afterward.
I see no long-term historical indications to the contrary, the last few years notwithstanding.