Diametrically

A diametrically opposed kinship pattern is to be observed among certain South Sea Island communities.

The Kabyle people who want a secular state and a scientific education are hated by the Algerians who, for their part, want an Islamic and therefore Arab state at all costs! Finally, to make two diametrically opposed peoples live together is an absurdity without name and an unforgivable crime!

Is the Islamic world diametrically opposed to the Western world?

We have two diametrically opposed ways of looking at life.

These things are diametrically opposed.

Her grant of nearly $900,000 allows her to hire graduate students for research into how plankton can adapt to changes in salinity and temperature. Her two targets are witnessing diametrically opposite climate-affected impacts; while the Mediterranean is increasing in salinity, ice melt is injecting a mass of freshwater into the Baltic Sea that promises to decimate key local species like cod.

"I do not see that we are at all called upon to pay so costly a compliment to society, as to assume a character diametrically opposed to our real one,—to utter sentiments we secretly disbelieve,—and to be as angry with our better nature for bursting from restraint, as at other times with our own inferior nature for refusing to submit to it.

The distinctness of London has led many to clamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.