This is in direct contradiction to what most of the systems builders would have predicted.

In such a case there need not be any direct contradiction between the two enactments.

These results still constitute, therefore, a direct contradiction of the thesis being developed here.

There does not need to be a direct contradiction.

A senior Administration official insisted today that there was no direct contradiction between the two assessments.

That's in direct contradiction to what the city is planning.

But the hills on the left were a direct contradiction.

"I think the work is an extension of the theory rather than a direct contradiction."

These two statements are in direct contradiction to each other.

For Dembo's looks were in direct contradiction to his character.