Homework seemed a foreign concept, at least until the contrary behaviour of the American students, who actually turned in the completed assignments, proved an example the Europeans elected to emulate.
His failure to admit his guilt had been used as grounds for his pre-trial detention which "ran contrary to the elements which made up the concept of a fair trial", the ECHR said.
The Chinese philosophical concept is used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world.