This, he hoped, would either make them surrender or leap into the water, but it produced a contrary effect.

These words produced a contrary effect to that which Mordaunt had anticipated.

Moreover, Aristotle indicated that the same thing can be the cause of contrary effects; its presence and absence may result in different outcomes.

But whilst they suffer from cold in proportion to their rise, we were beginning to feel a contrary effect.

The contrary effect in the Aleutians, once sorted out, has a simple explanation.

It operates by a contrary effect- that of taking rights away.

Some of the tax-cut plans would in fact have a contrary effect.

Coercion does not modify this, but has the contrary effect.

The approach of all these troops following close on the terrible proclamations we have given above, produced exactly the contrary effect to that intended.

Sometimes the exercise of power has the contrary effect to that which is intended.