Example sentences of "rather [conj] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest rates will have to remain painfully high for some months , and departmental spending will be made to stay within the current planning totals : even the big-spending ministers recognise they are involved in bidding against each other , rather than against the Treasury . |
| 2 | Throughout Gender Trouble Judith Butler offers — and tor , rather than against , feminism — a similar defence of practices like drag , cross-dressing , and , in lesbian culture , butch/femme sexual stylization . |
| 3 | In Ghia form it 's a well trimmed and equipped car , but more than this there 's a dynamic cohesion to it : somewhere along the line someone got the handling , ride and steering working in harmony rather than against each other . |
| 4 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 5 | Paisley 's third appearance in court resulted from a protest against Rome rather than against liberal Protestants . |
| 6 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 7 | The chair should encourage people to put forward their own views or to argue against views that others have actually expressed , rather than against hypothetical stereotypes ( e.g. ‘ these feminists say … ‘ ) . |
| 8 | Such development planning commits the school to improvement and to constructive competition against itself rather than against the neighbouring school . |
| 9 | Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy 's military forces rather than against cities or factories . |
| 10 | As we grow older , who we are will be more and more clearly etched in our appearance , but we can use this positively and work with it , rather than against it . |
| 11 | I chose to speak for the motion rather than against , for as a matter of hard fact devolution was dead . |
| 12 | Some planners , for example , saw that their economic planning might be more effective if they used the price mechanism to work with them rather than against them , and Philip Chantler , the economic adviser brought into the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1947 , consistently advocated a move to higher prices . |
| 13 | It is , of course , nothing new to propose that the legal framework of child welfare and professional intervention should reflect the need to work with , rather than against , families . |
| 14 | Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible . |
| 15 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 16 | It 's far better to work with them , rather than against them . |
| 17 | During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness . |
| 18 | At the same time , the formalism is broken up ( particularly in the last and longest sentence ) by elements which will ease transition to a lighter tone of comedy : for example , the bantering irony signalled by the parenthesis of " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ( directed against a general human frailty , partiality of parents for their offspring , rather than against the more repellent form that partiality takes in Mr Dombey ) ; also , the fanciful extensions of the well-worn personifications of Time and Care , again expressed through parenthetical elaboration of the syntax . |
| 19 | It is essential to devise strategies for working with rather than against resistance . |
| 20 | As we have seen , at least one form of the established economic torts ( intimidation ) may exist even though the defendant uses unlawful means directly against the plaintiff rather than against a third party . |
| 21 | She wanted to tell someone how it had counted for her rather than against her ; how in that dimming world of the Left Bank nearly ten years before , she 'd set lovers adrift on Gauguinesque , and Baudelairean voyages of luxe , calme et volupté . |
| 22 | To quote Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) again : ‘ The moves beyond Rayner to the FMI represent attempts to work within the political and organisation system , rather than against it and to couch debate in terms of means rather than ends ’ . |
| 23 | But as the dangerous fighters increased in numbers they would increasingly have to fight against other dangerous fighters rather than against timid , restrained fighters . |
| 24 | It is indeed the case that both of these " new branches " professed an orthodox Arminian theology and regarded themselves as movements within rather than against the Church of England . |
| 25 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 26 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 27 | Sightseers are welcome … to watch this magnificent force pulling WITH rather than against the forces of nature . |
| 28 | If the Liberal Democrats had voted with the Government rather than against , John Major would have been spared the embarrassment of defeat and the delay to the Maastricht Bill because of the consequential need for a report stage . |