Example sentences of "of [noun pl] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was appointed surveyor of excise for the city of Dublin in 1809 and in the following year was transferred to county Donegal , where he was put in charge of operations against illicit distilling . |
| 2 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , commander of operations against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , who was due to assume the post of army chief-of-staff in January 1993 , and Brig. |
| 3 | From here , while Louis took personal command of operations against strongholds held by Pippin II 's supporters in the Auvergne and Quercy , Charles and Judith moved north to establish their base at Poitiers . |
| 4 | They then compared total spending implications of policies against available resources and different expenditures against each other . |
| 5 | The address of Servicemen Against The War would n't go amiss either — SW |
| 6 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 7 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 8 | In reality of course the effect of individual measures depends upon the combinations in which they are used , so it becomes important to test packages of improvements against each other and against control areas in which no changes have been made . |
| 9 | I frequently heard reference to the " Mad Mullah " , whose forces still occupied half the country ; and I listened enthralled to descriptions by officers in the Somali Camel Corps of fights against his Dervishes . |
| 10 | The struggle of labourers against environment can be observed in the work of Stephen Duck , Mary Collier , William Falconer , Ann Yearsley , Robert Bloomfield and others . |
| 11 | Instead , trials could be heard by a panel of judges or juries especially selected for their ability to understand the complexities of cases against corporations . |
| 12 | Just as there was a marginally higher proportion of cases against females to receive widespread coverage , a higher proportion also received sustained coverage . |
| 13 | In social symptoms like these we have evidence of one of the most basic and dangerous erosions of all — that of the basic psychological restraints against the war of all against all ( and especially of sons against fathers ) which threatens to erupt once the fundamental processes of socialization begin to break down . |
| 14 | Some authorities have issued broad discussion documents ; others have been rather more prescriptive ( in Croydon , for example , parents have been given a checklist of skills against which to evaluate their children . |
| 15 | Steve Coppell 's men have already sewn the seeds of recovery with a hat-trick of wins against Queens Park Rangers , Liverpool and Leeds — but they wo n't cause Fashanu even more sleepless nights . |
| 16 | There was a tapping noise at the shutters , as if someone had thrown a handful of pebbles against them . |
| 17 | The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals . |
| 18 | Then only the slapping of waves against the hull , the creak and whine of timbers straining , the screech of gulls . |
| 19 | The International Air Transport Association uses movements of currencies against the SDR as a basis for reviewing cargo tariffs , and as we have already noted seven member countries peg their exchange rate to the SDR . |
| 20 | If his explanations were wrong , it made no difference to his faith ; if they were right , they strengthened the community of believers against the attacks of critics , and added the pleasure of understanding to the duty of believing . |
| 21 | Ostensibly , they accepted the need for disarmament and the maintenance of the peace by sanctions , and even military action , organized by the League of Nations against aggressor nations . |
| 22 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 23 | Yet public opinion , as it is reflected in British law , has steadfastly refused to enlarge upon the spirit of the pioneer legislation of the early 1820s and 1830s , updated fifty years later , which introduced the protection of animals against cruelty . |
| 24 | He kept up a non-stop stream of words against the patter of the raindrops beating against the skylight , to Modigliani 's silent exasperation . |
| 25 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 26 | This book is chiefly about checking and control of governmental activities and the redress of grievances against government . |
| 27 | The parameter b , which characterizes the advantage of defectors against cooperators , is thus the only parameter in our model ; none of our findings are qualitatively altered if we instead set P= , with positive but significantly below unity ( so that is strictly satisfied ) . |
| 28 | While he is not a charismatic figure , his supporters say he would prove a worthy defender of the rights of backbenchers against increasing government power . |
| 29 | There are a number of variables against which a language can vary , e.g. time-span , geographical origin , gender of author , discourse type , subject area , etc. , and the sources from which the corpus is compiled must be selected carefully to maintain a representative balance . |
| 30 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |