Example sentences of "than 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 | The raiding of Wimbledon , Lendl explained , was not going to be a suicide mission : ‘ Against some players you feel more confident moving to the net than against others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Paisley 's third appearance in court resulted from a protest against Rome rather than against liberal Protestants . |
| 7 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 8 | As many of the old river managers learned from first-hand experience of tinkering with their rivers , it is ultimately far more productive to work with a river than against it . |
| 9 | 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 … ‘ ) . |
| 10 | Such development planning commits the school to improvement and to constructive competition against itself rather than against the neighbouring school . |
| 11 | However , in the specialised cells that support and nourish the fetus the immune reaction is greater against a mule fetus than against a horse fetus . |
| 12 | Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy 's military forces rather than against cities or factories . |
| 13 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I chose to speak for the motion rather than against , for as a matter of hard fact devolution was dead . |
| 16 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 17 | ‘ The majority of Premier League defenders would rather play with him than against him . |
| 18 | ‘ The thing is I would rather it happened here than against Southend when we start the League on Saturday . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Perhaps it has more force against emotivism than against the attitudinism I have described . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When it came to actually making policy , however , and actually using ‘ the power we had to try to secure self-government in Indo-China ’ , not only would the problems of intervention against US allies presumably have been more difficult than against her enemies , but there was always the risk as well that circumstances might prejudice ideal or even optimum solutions . |
| 25 | It 's far better to work with them , rather than against them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If Mill 's argument succeeds in showing that there is even only a little evidence in its favour , there will be more evidence in favour than against ; and we should therefore accept the hypothesis . |
| 29 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
| 30 | It is essential to devise strategies for working with rather than against resistance . |