Example sentences of "used against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemical Mace was used against the demonstrators at the US-Australian communications installation at Nurrungar , and the police were backed up by 50 unarmed soldiers . |
| 2 | ‘ I was told they had contributed to the terror almost as much as the terror was used against them , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 3 | In Leipzig small groups of protesters again gathered yesterday outside the Nikolaikirche in the centre of the town , where water-cannon were used against demonstrators on Saturday night . |
| 4 | There had been widespread fears of police violence , and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday . |
| 5 | Video systems at football grounds should be regulated and individuals should have the right to see any recorded evidence used against them . |
| 6 | In the Gulf war many Arab regimes supporting the alliance were uncomfortably aware that the Palestine issue was being used against them . |
| 7 | On ozone depletion , which harms everyone , the Montreal agreement accepted that trade sanctions could be used against free riders . |
| 8 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 9 | You can uncover many things in this way , so long as you can hold your nerve when the technique is put into reverse and used against yourself . |
| 10 | She took no part in the exclaiming and protesting and analysing nor would she indulge in speculation as to what had really happened or as to why the letter of authority had not been used against Ellen . |
| 11 | Simply by putting relatively isolated community groups together Highlander is able to convey a sense of purpose to these groups which springs from the confidence gained by the realisation that their problems are not confined to themselves , nor in most cases caused by any deficiency or fault of their own , but are rather due to outside forces of oppression which are also being used against other people in other communities . |
| 12 | 25 runner up prizes will be awarded of a £100 holiday voucher to be used against any Belhaven Club holiday featured within the HCI brochure . |
| 13 | This is not to say that the Mexican unions are likely to become revolutionary tools to be used against a capitalist state , but nor are they conservative in supporting the status quo . |
| 14 | Tear gas was used against demonstrators at Brokdorf and Grohnde in West Germany ; at Kalkar a moat was dug to keep out an army of protesters . |
| 15 | Would it be used against Israel ? |
| 16 | On both occasions the Soviet Union made up for the extreme weakness of its client but , by providing the personnel to operate missile sites , it was consciously limiting the ways in which these missiles could be used against Israel . |
| 17 | The ammunition drums were loaded with a mixture of incendiary , explosive and tracer rounds , which proved to be a lethal cocktail when used against aircraft and road transport . |
| 18 | As a result of this work it could be declared that ‘ All the drugs now used against malaria were found by using experimental laboratory infections : the design of the tests employed to find them , or to uncover their particular attributes and imperfections , was based on knowledge of the life cycle ’ . |
| 19 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 20 | The arguments used by the radicals against the continued existence of the independent sector were now turned and used against the continued existence of grammar schools and direct grant schools ( which were equally selective and even more predominantly middle-class ) . |
| 21 | fear that information will be used against them in a bargaining situation . |
| 22 | Punitive methods persistently used against a background of rejecting , hostile parental attitudes lead , in the long term , to trouble . |
| 23 | Later , the evidence of nine-year-old Jennet Demdike was used against other adults , and all were taken for trial at Lancaster Assizes . |
| 24 | It has proved of benefit when used against herpes viruses or viral hepatitis for example , and researchers at the MRC 's Common Cold Unit in Wiltshire have shown that it can provide effective protection against colds . |
| 25 | Although Kemp 's is a silly book , it contains enough of Wells 's lively turns of phrase — even when used against him — to make it readable . |
| 26 | A limited poisoning campaign is being used against rats , especially during the Hawaiian petrels ' breeding season , when the birds are particularly vulnerable . |
| 27 | So neither plant owners nor instrumentation makers are at all keen to report on RFI problems that could later be used against them in legal proceedings . |
| 28 | Broad-spectrum insecticides used against bollworms have in turn decimated the natural enemies of whiteflies ( which live on the undersides of the leaves and are thus protected from aerial sprays ) . |
| 29 | Alternatively it could have developed as another example of a prey-killing poison that has been secondarily used against attackers . |
| 30 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |