To the butler, however, this pose conveyed the exact opposite message.

Although this sounds obvious, some parents inadvertently give their children the opposite message.

I am disappointed that the governor has chosen to send the opposite message.

The Bush administration may say it is reducing both the number and the role of nuclear weapons, but its budgets send the opposite message.

The opposite message would invite disaster in the final stage.

Sending such articles to shareholders could well send the opposite message.

This "welfare explosion" wasn't undone until the 1996 reform sent the opposite message.

Please be honest and say what you are really doing instead of giving the public the opposite message.

But that has to be re-emphasised, because we have heard the opposite message again today.

The markets are sending the opposite message to the Fed.