Academia, by contrast, appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

But causality might also run in the opposite direction.

Meanwhile, developing countries are moving in the opposite direction.

The laughter should have gone in the opposite direction.

Personally, I come at this from the opposite direction.

The opposite activity of direction or flow is efferent.

America is paying a high price for continuing in the opposite direction.

A sitback is when a tree moves back opposite the intended direction.

Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.

In fact, development plans in China may be heading in the opposite direction.

Thirty years after the Reagan Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has begun to swing in the opposite direction.

But, having learned to do that once would make it easier to do it again in the opposite direction.

Japan responded by intervening in the opposite direction dropping interest rates, selling yen, and buying dollars.

Alas, Russia is moving more in the opposite direction political power is becoming more, not less, concentrated.

Our voters cannot stroll in one direction during one poll, and in the opposite direction the next time they vote, without worrying about falling over the edge.

Statistical inference, however, moves in the opposite direction inductively inferring from samples to the parameters of a larger or total population.

So the al Saud have become Janus faced looking in one direction, the royal family encourages democratic reformers to speak out looking in the opposite direction, it jails them when they do.

Thus if a rocket burst is in the direction of the velocity, in the reversed case it is opposite to the velocity.

A float is the portion of a yarn that crosses over two or more yarns from the opposite direction.

Lawmakers also voted to dismiss another piece of legislation that would have taken Polish reproductive rights in the opposite direction, liberalizing existing laws.

Eight million Muslim refugees fled India and entered Pakistan, and six million Hindus and Sikhs moved in the opposite direction.

This arises initially from the increased speed of the wing opposite to the direction of yaw and the reduced speed of the other wing.

China, over the same time period, went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization state, together.

This should favor the euro as a store of value, but the internal tensions within Europe work in the opposite direction.

In the southern hemisphere the situation is exactly reversed, with the South Pole oriented opposite the direction of the North Pole.

Unfortunately, the main advanced economies are following a divergent path which, in some cases, will lead them in the opposite direction in 2011.

There is a market failure when it comes to energy, but government intervention should run in precisely the opposite direction from what the Bush administration has proposed.

I have also written about globalization s anomalies money should flow from rich to poor countries, but in recent years it has been going in the opposite direction.

But this eastern flow of grain was matched by an equally important flow of people and capital in the opposite direction, that is, from East to West.

The flight's opposite direction was partly the result of changes in global wind and weather patterns along the planned route since the earlier attempt.

Central and Eastern Europe has suffered from a massive inflow of Afghan heroin and from the growing transit of precursors in the opposite direction.

Ironically, Western countries are shifting to statism at the very moment that China appears to be heading in the opposite direction witness its recent moves to liberalize its financial system.

That pressure should be turned in the opposite direction, and we should celebrate those, like Sikorski, with modest tastes and higher priorities than conspicuous consumption.

Policymakers must recognize that the Chinese model includes features peculiar to its gradual introduction of market mechanisms which, compared to IP s new converts, represents a move in the opposite ideological direction.

Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own. In fact, development plans in China may be heading in the opposite direction.

By contrast, the government sector has been moving in the opposite direction, as state and local governments retrench and federal purchases top out after post crisis deficit explosions.

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize winning economist, also believes that low growth and inequality are interconnected, but he believes that the causal arrow moves in the opposite direction.

It has adapted the doctrine of harmonious development, which is the right approach, but it also has other doctrines, notably those relating to Taiwan and Tibet, that work in the opposite direction.

When a metal wire is subjected to electric force applied on its opposite ends, these free electrons rush in the direction of the force, thus forming what we call an electric current.

Its program Al Itijah al Mu akess ( the opposite direction ) brought the sort of verbal jousts that most of the world takes for granted but Arabs had never seen televised.

And now the Swiss National Bank is moving in the exact opposite direction to Geithner they are pushing these big banks to become smaller and to finance more of their activities with equity, rather than debt.

The ideological evolution of the Polish students led in the opposite direction from efforts to improve socialism in the name of true Marxism to anti totalitarian opposition and the construction of a free civil society.

DAKKA As fears about the Islamization of politics in the Muslim world grow, Bangladesh, with the world s fourth largest Muslim population (126 million), has moved dramatically in the opposite direction.

Since the current is in the opposite direction along each rail, the net magnetic field between the rails (B) is directed at right angles to the plane formed by the central axes of the rails and the armature.

Take a beer mat and rotate it by a quarter of a turn, then flip it. And then do it in the other order, and the picture will be facing in the opposite direction.