the opposite way

These are doors which open the opposite way to the one you expect.

After an hour they met a young woman walking the opposite way.

I have no desire to go the opposite way from the earth.

He moved it the opposite way with the same result.

But he decided to go the opposite way, making the material move while the hand remains still.

Just as well, for someone was coming toward her, going the opposite way on the trail.

There's another, larger river further east that goes the opposite way.

And both are trying with their final strength to change policy, though in opposite ways.

Why, the other end of the stick always points the opposite way.

The law has two sections, which work in opposite ways.