Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 2 | Massoud Barzani , leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) and of the eight-member coalition of Kurdish opposition groups , the Kurdish Democratic Front ( KDF ) , secured agreement from Turkey and the UK at the end of February that allied aircraft would continue their protection of Kurdistan against a possible attack by Iraqi forces . |
| 3 | He hates the invaders , from not-all-that-stout Cortes via de Soto , the first to encounter the Cherokees , and the treacherous English and French who made life hell for the Mohawks , right up to the Quebec police who fired on the Mohawks as they protected their remnant of land against the building of a golf course . |
| 4 | The resolution , which also called on Iraq to " allow immediate access by international humanitarian organizations to those in need of assistance " , made no provision for any action to force the Iraqi government to halt its campaign of repression against the Kurdish and Shia minorities . |
| 5 | Both the security forces and the death squads have renewed their campaign of intimidation against trade unions and popular organizations which had begun to regroup and regain influence during the Duarte period . |
| 6 | The silence hung round her like a shroud and , looking around , her feeling of resentment against her cousin burned into a fierce anger . |
| 7 | The parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , has accused the media of bias and yesterday the parliament kept up its barrage of complaints against the media , saying television programmes closed the eyes of viewers to what it described as the anti-constitutional nature of the president 's seizure of new powers . |
| 8 | It does not matter that the plaintiffs ' cause of action against the third defendant arises from conspiracy or fraud whereas their cause of action against the third party arises from breach of a contractual or tortious duty of care . |
| 9 | One notable later-day Boadicea was Lady Anne Cunningham , a fervent Calvinist who not only succeeded in scaring the English , but also her own son the Marquess of Hamilton when she rode into Berwick with a brace of pistols and daggers at her saddle , at the head of her troop of horse against Charles I. Her attendant women were obliged to become expert markswomen . |
| 10 | ASLIMMER Press Council should speed up its handling of complaints against newspapers and act firmly against unacceptable intrusions of privacy , according to a review conducted by its chairman , Mr Louis Blom-Cooper QC . |
| 11 | Hamlet treats her so badly because he is angry at her lack of willpower against Claudius , the man he hates . |
| 12 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 13 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 14 | She moaned , and felt , rather than heard , his sigh of response against her skin . |
| 15 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 16 | Atkinson is keen to maintain his record of goals against his former clubs . |
| 17 | One is to continue his war of attrition against parliament , albeit from a position of greater strength since the referendum . |
| 18 | In 1968 she delivered the PCE 's protest to Moscow at the invasion of Czechoslovakia and supported Santiago Carrillo , her successor as secretary-general , in his espousal of Eurocommunism against Soviet criticisms , despite her own reservations . |
| 19 | Alexei felt Siban 's wrist bones grate together under his hand , and he eased the pressure he was exerting , ashamed at his use of force against an old man . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 21 | ( c ) Examination of deeds and requisitions A reminder , in appropriate cases , to examine and mark your abstract of title against the deeds in the case of an unregistered title . |