Example sentences of "against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were shot dead when thousands of women , protesting against the killings , tried to march on the President 's residence . |
| 2 | As AI launched a campaign in March 1991 against the extensive use of the death penalty in China , a nationwide drive to crack down on crime continued unabated . |
| 3 | Although this is technically against the rules , it is still common practice . |
| 4 | Buddhist monk covers his eyes amid tear gas fired by the security forces during a demonstration against the Indo-Sri Lanka accord in Colombo , 1987 . |
| 5 | Formal differences in art have been linked to places in varied ways , one of the best-known Renaissance contrasts being the stress on line evident in Florentine art as against the colourist approach of the Venetians , a city on water . |
| 6 | The reader in this situation has a choice : the work in an exhibition can be measured against the artists ' manifesto ; or the critic 's interpretation and assessment can be used . |
| 7 | Kate Millett and William Kunstler went about the world protesting against the trial on the grounds that it was ‘ political ’ . |
| 8 | The queen of the authors is Harriet Scrope , novelist , plot-stealer , and ferocious egotist , whose war against the world she inhabits extends to her best friend and her cat . |
| 9 | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’ |
| 10 | In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon , having praised Kundera 's excellent novel The Joke in 1968 , and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia — his legs would ‘ refuse ’ to take him to Russia any more — made it to Moscow four years later ; and that another French poet , Eluard , abandoned his Prague friend , the Surrealist Kalandra , to the executioner . |
| 11 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 12 | Face hated face , the common ones clashing with the noble ones , the grasping ones against the weaklings . |
| 13 | She can , against the odds , be funny : ‘ Dinkas in the market have long , brass-bound pipes . |
| 14 | It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others . |
| 15 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 16 | He is the sort of Sixties dominie who used to inveigh in class against the system . |
| 17 | Aaron is a Moorish soldier of fortune , who with his mistress , Tamora , has been captured by the Romans in their war against the Goths . |
| 18 | I throw thy name against the bruising stones , |
| 19 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 20 | Yet , despite the splintering , they have succeeded in allying the present two main parties against the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985 . |
| 21 | But the British government was still involved in the reproduction of antagonisms in the Ulster statelet , rather than passively accepting the perpetuation of inequalities and discrimination against the catholic — nationalist minority . |
| 22 | At the same time , despite the popular support for many of the activities of the provisionals north of the border , there is almost no popular support for terrorist activities against the established government in the South . |
| 23 | It would appear that the popular religious consciousness makes a distinction between violence against the Southern state , whose statehood can not be questioned , and violence for liberation in the North . |
| 24 | Some more theologically articulate members of the provisional movement justify violence on traditional Roman catholic ethical grounds , the theory of the just war against the unjust oppressor . |
| 25 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 26 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 27 | Covenant theology itself empowers the people to take action against the state in certain and specific circumstances , and Ian Paisley and many of his supporters both within and without the Orange order have frequently used bully-boy tactics , and approved paramilitary processions , marching , and drilling . |
| 28 | In a sense , the new Irish constitution was going against the spirit of this approach . |
| 29 | In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day . |
| 30 | He condemned dancing in every form , even the kitchen dances were sinful and against the wishes of our Church . |