Example sentences of "[prep] or against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINCE Indian independence in 1947 , the main question before Indian voters has been whether they were for or against the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 2 | There was also one further desk at the front , set just below the Inspector , where ‘ witnesses , gave evidence either for or against the proposal . |
| 3 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 4 | This l.e.d. is the game 's ‘ Umpire ’ and gives a verdict for or against the batsman . |
| 5 | Faced with arguably the most reactionary piece of legislation this century , with its major implications for basic civil liberties and education , not to mention lesbians and gay men , Labour reduced it to being for or against the ‘ promotion ’ of homosexuality . |
| 6 | Viewers tended to be either for or against the main thrust of its argument ; few were able to take a neutral stance and discussions were often quite heated between students and their teachers , academics and party members . |
| 7 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 8 | This conflict arises because any directives towards making nationalized industries more fully accountable would , on the one hand , lead to the release of commercially confidential information that would be readily available to private sector competitors , and , on the other hand , would provide for potential political exploitation by those either for or against the concept of nationalization . |
| 9 | Neither adopts an absolute attitude for or against the maintenance of confidentiality . |
| 10 | Social groups , or cliques , may act collectively for or against the interests of their company ; the like-mindedness which arises in all members of the group strengthens their collective attitudes or actions . |
| 11 | Whether these groups work for or against the interests of the company depends to some extent on the type of supervision they get . |
| 12 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 13 | It will require the devising of yet more ingenious techniques to provide conclusive evidence for or against the view of obligatory syntactic analysis . |
| 14 | If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways . |
| 15 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 16 | The first involves action against the institutions practising censorship , and the second involves action on behalf of or against the membership of the profession . |
| 17 | What is important is whether the intervention is in support of or against the state , how it is manifested and what its impact is . |
| 18 | But Attlee and others believed that Britain could not act without the support of or against the wishes of the United States . |
| 19 | The li is not obeyed or defied like a law , one goes either with or against the grain of it , as in chopping wood . |
| 20 | But neither the Ecclesiastical Courts nor the Common Law Courts are well adapted to settle the numerous conflicting rights of creditors , legatees , and next of kin ; trusts are often involved , and during the last two centuries the most effectual and usual method of asserting a claim to or against the estate of a deceased person is to get the estate administered in Chancery . |
| 21 | The future of teacher education in the polytechnics is uncertain and much will depend on national decisions concerning the size of the teacher training machinery , made by the DES on or against the advice of the Advisory Committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers , as well as local decisions concerning staff and resources made by the polytechnics and their local authorities in their search for economies . |
| 22 | any legal proceedings by or against the authority , or |
| 23 | This reasoning could be applied to claims by or against the United States with respect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea . |