Example sentences of "woman against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can protect both partners against some sexually transmitted diseases and may protect the woman against cancer of the cervix . |
| 2 | The warmth which sisters and sisters-in-law may show for one another can cushion a woman against the harshness of her life . |
| 3 | Hitchcock sets an innocent woman against Charles Laughton 's squire , a criminal buffoon , and a gang of smugglers , but there is never any real conflict , and the ending is almost comic . |
| 4 | Moses permitted divorce because of the human realities involved , for it was meant to be a protection for the woman against the possibility of physically aggressive acts from the husband . |
| 5 | As Wilson puts it in her discussion of Asian women living in Britain , these relationships serve to ‘ cushion a woman against the harshness of her life ’ ( Wilson , 1978 , p. 7 ) . |
| 6 | The crimes of detaining a woman against her will with the intention that she shall marry or have unlawful sexual intercourse , and taking an unmarried girl under the age of 18 out of the possession of her parent or guardian with intent that she shall have sexual intercourse , are restricted in the same fashion . |
| 7 | But I 've never taken a woman against her will . ’ |
| 8 | WHITNEY Houston was the weapon in a war of noise waged by a Teesside woman against her neighbour , a court has heard . |
| 9 | The latest figures collated by Women against Rape show that only one in twelve women who are raped report the offence to police . |
| 10 | Sara Calloway , of Women Against Rape , said the 18-year-old victim 's character had been put on trial and not the police officer 's . |
| 11 | The new law of prohibition of alcohol afforded them marvellous matter for the pleading of the liberty of men and women against the tyranny of majorities , and they sang or preached several eloquent perorations in praise of freedom . |
| 12 | Women Against War In The Gulf ; Nuclear Test Update |
| 13 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 14 | To find out more about the group and to take part in an anti-war action on International Women 's Day in March , contact Women Against War in the Gulf , c/o 63 Upper Tollington Park , London N4 4DD . |
| 15 | Women Against the Ordination of Women Mrs Brown Luckhurst Mayfield East Sussex TN20 6TY |
| 16 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 17 | A spokeswomen for Women Against Rape hit out at the ‘ low ’ jail sentence last night . |
| 18 | The PPU launched its own Women 's Peace Campaign in direct competition to the Stop the War agitation promoted by the Communist-led Women Against War and Fascism . |
| 19 | But Women Against the Ordination of Women said : ‘ We do not believe the Synod or Parliament has authority to make such a change in the ministry which the Church of England has inherited from the ancient Church . ’ |
| 20 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 21 | Thus in the case of Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles v. |
| 22 | The first is that of feminist campaigners based , not only in rape crisis centres and refuges , but also in specialist lobby groups such as Women Against Rape and Women Against Violence Against Women . |
| 23 | The first is that of feminist campaigners based , not only in rape crisis centres and refuges , but also in specialist lobby groups such as Women Against Rape and Women Against Violence Against Women . |
| 24 | The 1970s and 1980s saw the setting up of rape crisis centres , refuges for battered women , groups for incest survivors , and a host of local and national campaigning groups including Women Against Rape , Women Against Violence Against Women , and the Women 's Aid Federation . |
| 25 | The 1970s and 1980s saw the setting up of rape crisis centres , refuges for battered women , groups for incest survivors , and a host of local and national campaigning groups including Women Against Rape , Women Against Violence Against Women , and the Women 's Aid Federation . |
| 26 | Indeed , the suffragette movement and its link to fascism represented one kind of genteel revolt by spirited upper-middle-class women against the stultifying effects of the Victorian ethic of limiting the role of respectable ladies to ornaments in the social round . |
| 27 | When the Merc asked Michels to reply to accusations of hugging and kissing two of the women against their will during business hours , Michels , it said , replied , ‘ How serious a crime is that ? ’ . |
| 28 | In other words , they take the side of women against forms of male power . |
| 29 | ( The groups were linked informally both locally and regionally , and also through the national Women Against Pit Closures movement . ) |
| 30 | Drawing in part on her involvement in the organization Women Against Fundamentalism , Nira Yuval-Davis registers some of the potential pitfalls of that approach for women . |