Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom , which at the 1989 conference in Malaysia had been isolated because of its opposition to a declaration calling for an intensification of sanctions against South Africa , took a lead in Harare on several issues . |
| 2 | It offered itself also as an ideology of movement against aspects — abolitionists feared and hoped symptomatic aspects — of the established system of the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries without requiring confrontation with the central features of the metropolitan order . |
| 3 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |
| 4 | The wife and the bachelor in the above cases should have been entitled to insist that the confusion be cleared up by a published clarification , but they should not have been able to obtain an award of damages against a newspaper which was not at fault . |
| 5 | This was followed by a £500,000 award to Jeffrey Archer against a newspaper which wrongly suggested ( albeit on considerable circumstantial evidence ) that he had sex with a prostitute , and by an award of £300,000 against a small trade journal . |
| 6 | Far from being an instrument of struggle against the prerogatives of private capital , and the multinationals in particular , the contract was to provide a means of national reconciliation . |
| 7 | Because this provision could be an instrument of oppression against individuals , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson wanted to resist its application . |
| 8 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 9 | The pursuers then concluded a contract for the purchase of the house but subsequently raised an action of damages against the defenders , based on negligence , in which they averred that there were many patent defects in the house which should have been apparent to surveyors of ordinary competence exercising reasonable care . |
| 10 | A dissatisfied party may also consider an allegation of misconduct against the arbitrator . |
| 11 | The child may retain his stools partly for the erotic pleasure of later letting go , but also as an act of defiance against the parents . |
| 12 | The penalty for an act of buggery against a boy was life imprisonment . |
| 13 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 14 | Citation is here an act of revenge against what is seen as a liberal apologetics for black crime . |
| 15 | And it is often those who suffer abuse who are capable of horrendous acts of violence , storing up their hatred for release in an act of revenge against the world . |
| 16 | Gilbert Burnet was repeating an old Whig commonplace when he wrote : " It was a maxim among our lawyers , that even an Act of Parliament against Magna Carta was null of itself " . |
| 17 | It said that terrorism had too often been treated as a law-enforcement problem when it should be treated as a matter of national security and an act of aggression against the USA . |
| 18 | A communiqué issued at the end of the conference condemned the " US-led military campaign against Iraq [ as ] an act of aggression against the Arab nation " . |
| 19 | Hrawi , who was visiting Damascus , the Syrian capital , at the time of the assassination , described it as " an act of aggression against the state security " . |
| 20 | In a statement issued on Sept. 10 Dominique Strauss-Kahn , the French Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade , said that the government could not formally announce its approval until a commercial agreement was finalized between Taiwan and the manufacturer of the Mirage , Dassault Aviation , but that " such a decision … would not be considered as an act of aggression against the People 's Republic of China " . |
| 21 | When Jordana informed Ambassador Hayes in November 1942 that an Allied landing in French North Africa would be considered an act of aggression against Spain , he was undoubtedly expressing Franco 's , not his own , view . |
| 22 | As late as February 1949 there was a brief panic in London when a US Senate debate suggested that the all-important article 5 ( which defined the obligations of members in the event of an act of aggression against one of their number ) might be diluted . |
| 23 | To that extent , Pan Am , its insurance underwriters and the 16 members of the Pan Am crew were also victims of an act of war against the United States . |
| 24 | The act of suicide among younger people is indeed often an act of anger against those with whom they live , and who have failed to solve their problems . |
| 25 | There is an attitude of discrimination against academics within our specialty , highlighted recently by Thomas . |
| 26 | His initial reservations expressed here suggest that he , like many of us , has spanned an era of reaction against the worst excesses of cut-throat competitiveness and artificiality of performance in favour of the process of a child 's personal experience . |
| 27 | When an owner of property against whom an order has been made under the Act comes into this court and complains that there has been some irregularity in the proceedings , and that he is not liable to have his property taken away , it is right , I think , that his case should be entertained sympathetically and that a statute under which he is being deprived of his rights to property should be construed strictly against the local authority and favourably towards the interest of the applicant , in as much as he for the benefit of the community is undoubtedly suffering a substantial loss , which in my view must not be inflicted upon him unless it is quite clear that Parliament has intended that it shall . |
| 28 | This state of affairs is an example of discrimination against the needs of older people ; it not only causes great suffering but unnecessary economic costs . |
| 29 | ‘ The offence of man against man can not arouse the same indignation as an offence of man against God . |
| 30 | On top of that , Wright has his England future to worry about because much as he may look forward to an avalanche of goals against San Marino in February , first he must ensure his presence in the team , then be in control of himself when the chances come . |