Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constitutional convulsions of Rome will mean urgent matters such as the fight against organised crime and tackling the burgeoning debt will be postponed . |
| 2 | It should also , she urged , be an advocate for the book as well as conducting campaigns such as the fight against VAT : ‘ Celebrating what is good is as important as campaigning ’ . |
| 3 | As to the amount left for food and clothing after rent and a more flexible sum for heat had been deducted , wives tended to act as the buffer against the needs of husbands and to a lesser extent children . |
| 4 | While other workers have published careful studies showing modest , often transitory , benefits of training for IQ , Heber 's projects stood as a beacon of hope for dramatic and lasting benefits , and also as the defence against those who say that IQ has proved disappointingly hard to budge . |
| 5 | Serious feminist magazines like Spare Rib and Everywoman , and both specialist and generalist groups , such as the Campaign Against Pornography and the Townswomen 's Guilds , all tackle these issues in an informed , responsible way . |
| 6 | Local protest groups including Clevelandbased NEON sprang up along the length of the proposed line as the campaign against the pylons grew . |
| 7 | My Lords , this appeal concerns the ambit of that right to silence which is known as the privilege against self-incrimination and entitles any person to refuse to answer questions or to disclose documents if to do so would tend to expose him to proceedings for a criminal offence . |
| 8 | More explicitly he sees psychodynamic theories as the orthodoxy against which others have railed , either from a positivist and empirical critique ( leading to the development of behavioural social work ) ; or a radical analysis ( based upon a rejection of the individualization of problems and the location of disadvantage at the societal level and the consequent development of radical social work ) . |
| 9 | They went to town on the story , piled up what they saw as the evidence against my father until everyone , it seemed , thought he was guilty . ’ |
| 10 | Each lineage has specific functions , such as the protection against acid ( gastric metaplasia ) , protection against bile ( intestinal metaplasia ) , and repair of ulceration ( present in up to 30% of patients with Barrett 's mucosa ) ( the ulcer associated cell lineage ) . |
| 11 | It was expected that Zuno would face a retrial , much to the embarrassment of the Mexican government as the case against him included witnesses who had alleged that senior government , military and police officers had been involved in the conspiracy to kill Camarena . |
| 12 | It had consolidated its position by a series of popular decisions annulling some of the most hated acts of the former regime , such as the laws against abortion and the rural systematization programme [ see pp. 36620-21 ] , and , above all , by providing food supplies from stocks previously destined for export . |
| 13 | We are entitled on the basis of the biblical witness to see the Evil One as the rebel against God , the usurper who became the prince of this world , and the Enemy of the church . |
| 14 | It is worth reminding oneself , therefore , that the institution of marriage , which is so often held up as the ideal against which other relationships are to be measured , is certainly not unaffected by financial considerations . |
| 15 | Finally , there was Hitler 's image as the bulwark against the nation 's perceived powerful ideological enemies — Marxism/Bolshevism and , above all , the Jews . |
| 16 | Two students face each other , one as the attacker , the other as the defender against an attack which he knows is coming . |
| 17 | In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured . |
| 18 | Many of these devices will be subject to legal control , either under statute , such as the UCTA 1977 , or common law rules such as the rule against penalties or the law governing the effectiveness of retention of title clauses . |
| 19 | It was also necessary to recondition the human mind to accept Change instead of Stability as the time-continuum against which one lived . |
| 20 | The Count of Hainault , who was ruler of Holland and Zeeland , had grievances against Edward II over the harassment of Dutch shipping and was willing to help Isabella as a reprisal against England . |
| 21 | thought that he could create an advantage by shipping some Russian rocket missiles to his friend , Fidel Castro , in the island of Cuba , so that he would be able to use them as a threat against the continent of North America , a comparatively short distance away . |
| 22 | The University Grants Committee had acted as a buffer against change . |
| 23 | In later years Barcelona and the region to the north formed part of the kingdom of Arragon , and acted as a buffer against Saracen invasions into the rest of Europe . |
| 24 | Russia wished to use the Teleuts as a buffer against the Dzhungars , but in the end they were overwhelmed by a superior power and began raiding Russian lands again around 1700 at the behest of their new masters , as did the Kazakhs further west . |
| 25 | For example , if a customer requires 100% delivery from stock within two days , this means carrying extra stock levels as a buffer against any shortfall in supplies to the warehouse . |
| 26 | Far from acting as a buffer against Federalism , it will actually assist it . |
| 27 | Most improtant is that homeworkers are easily disposed of ‘ Outworkers are used as a buffer against market fluctuations , particularly in the manufacturing sectors ’ said the Employment Gazette blandly . |
| 28 | Her adolescent rebellion , seemingly involving immoderate sex and the moderate occult , was clearly supposed to be viewed as a stand against the social codes of her English middle-class tribe . |
| 29 | A settlement of the longstanding dispute could lead to the United Kingdom reducing its military commitment to the country , although Price had asked the UK to remain as a guarantor against possible Guatemalan aggression . |
| 30 | A kind of numbness acts as a shell against not only death itself , but against all the implications of loss that go with it . |