Example sentences of "against those " in BNC.

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1 I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order .
2 Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually .
3 In pensive vein he had published ‘ an early warning ’ in The Favourite Game against those who would follow ‘ our future leaders , the war babies ’ ; for the simple reason that while the world convulsed in its madness and death-throes , ‘ we grew up with toy whips , ’ ‘ games ’ played by old and young alike .
4 The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul .
5 The British Mountaineering Council face a difficult decision over what action to take against those who participated in June 's bouldering competition held at Crookrise in Yorkshire .
6 RIOT and conspiracy charges should be brought against those who travelled ticketless to football matches determined to confront police , the Birmingham MP and former sports minister , Denis Howell , said yesterday .
7 WARSAW ( AFP ) — The Polish government is to take legal action against those responsible for torturing and murdering thousands of people in Poland during the Stalinist era .
8 Their millions of compatriots follow the details on West German television , day by day , while the domestic media have confined their reports to abuse against the authorities in Bonn , and sometimes against those who have left .
9 Depending on the contents , the report could provide Ferranti with ammunition for legal action against those who advised it during the ISC purchase .
10 But there was a limit to what Mr Aczel , the party 's ideologist , could tolerate and the gradual thaw was frequently punctuated with repressive measures against those who fell out of line .
11 Mrs Thatcher found it more possible to assert her own right-wing views as against those of moderates like Prior or Walker , with a strong thrust towards monetarism emerging in the party 's The Right Approach to the Economy .
12 It is not the revolt of the hungry against those who are hoarding food .
13 It is not the revolt of those who are denied the franchise against those who are monopolising the franchise .
14 This is true even of immaterial rights : a right to free speech is a claim to say to others what they do not want to hear , and to do so , if necessary , thanks to the exercise of force against those who would like to interfere .
15 Sweeney stands against those whose personal taste is too closely linked to morality in a falsely genteel way .
16 Against those iconoclasts who would rid life of all images in the name of religion , he sees repudiation of art as acceptable for the extreme ascetic , but , if universally applied , as starving the spiritual soil of nourishment .
17 For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not .
18 The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules .
19 Engels argued , and this is a fundamental aspect of his work that has become obscured in the discussion over whether there ever were such things as primitive promiscuity or group marriage , against those who asserted that monogamous marriage and the type of family that was associated with it was a universally valid ideal of man , irrespective of social or cultural context .
20 The advice now promotes the delaying of your body clock and guards against those factors that might advance it .
21 And so , if the State sets its claims against those of the family it must be resisted . ’
22 Newell and Hepworth might define their own styles against those of Stoll and Ideal but , since neither was particularly successful , there was no pressure operating on the one to be more ‘ commercial , or the other to be more ‘ artistic ’ .
23 Allowing the BBC 's appeal , the Vice-Chancellor , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , sitting with Lords Justices Staughton and Beldam , said the 1988 Copyright Act created rights and remedies for broadcasters not against those who received the programmes , but against those who enabled viewers to receive the transmissions and thereby avoid the viewing fee .
24 Allowing the BBC 's appeal , the Vice-Chancellor , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , sitting with Lords Justices Staughton and Beldam , said the 1988 Copyright Act created rights and remedies for broadcasters not against those who received the programmes , but against those who enabled viewers to receive the transmissions and thereby avoid the viewing fee .
25 Revocation by the principal , his death , and in some cases his insanity , put an end to the agent 's authority , though in general a revocation will be inoperative as against those to whom the principal has held out the agent as having authority , and who have no notice of the revocation .
26 In reaction against them — and even more against those who defected from their ranks to Rome — some Evangelicals found refuge in high Calvinism .
27 They record him burning with anger against those who practised their faith at the expense of others .
28 Once again , the policy of using the law against those who indulge in sexual exploitation of the vulnerable may conflict with the ‘ logic ’ of overall consistency in age-limits , and this conflict must be acknowledged and confronted .
29 One can expect cries of ‘ witchcraft ’ , ‘ blasphemy ’ , ‘ sacrilege ’ and ‘ idolatry ’ to be directed against those who seek to resacralize the female body .
30 Against those who see his political career as stemming from mundane and this-worldly considerations such as a desire for power , I would argue that there is no good reason to reject his own understanding of the connection between the two .
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