Example sentences of "of [noun] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE other 11 heads of state and government of the European Community last night closed ranks in an impressive display of unity against the sole opposition of Mrs Thatcher , to hold a special conference next year to amend the Treaty of Rome and open the way to economic and monetary union . |
| 2 | Nor am I convinced by Marnham 's defence of Simenon against the charge of anti-Semitism — that he was simply ‘ politically inexperienced and intellectually naive ’ . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) The proposal is a friendly merger with the larger company wishing to acquire the smaller company but there is known to be a difficult minority shareholder in the smaller company holding above 10 per cent of the voting rights ( or able to muster that level of support against the proposal ) which could prevent the larger company implementing the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 . |
| 4 | The counsellor has to be realistic in balancing the potential value of change against the personal costs that change might incur . |
| 5 | He and some friends were accused of smashing a bottle of champagne against the wall of his £700-a-night suite and tearing down Christmas decorations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , commander of operations against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , who was due to assume the post of army chief-of-staff in January 1993 , and Brig. |
| 8 | This state coercion ( the removal of grain surpluses , tax in kind , or some other form ) is economically funded : in the first place , directly , since the peasantry itself has an interest in the growth of industry , which supplies it with agricultural machines , implements , artificial fertilisers and electric power , etc. ; in the second place , indirectly , since the state power of the proletariat is the best means of protection against the restoration of the economic pressure of the large-scale landowner , banker … |
| 9 | Coming out on to the landing he was horrified to find Eleanor mounting the stairs , this time wearing a thick tweed trouser suit with a scarf wrapped round her throat , presumably as some sort of protection against the peasouper outside which he knew , to his cost , had already infiltrated his lodgings and was making him cough . |
| 10 | He wrapped the blanket round him , a sparse level of protection against the cold . |
| 11 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 12 | The risks of catching vaccine-related meningitis were minimal compared to the benefits of immunisation against the other diseases . |
| 13 | The pitched battles fought each Saturday afternoon in the Kings Road between punks and teddy-boys — the curators of Fifties sartorial and musical style — seemed a tragi-comic parody of the forces of conservatism against the forces of chaos and impending change . |
| 14 | The address of Servicemen Against The War would n't go amiss either — SW |
| 15 | In June 1940 , Britain was digging in , expecting a grim struggle for existence and feverishly improvising every weapon of defence against the possible invader . |
| 16 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 17 | The purposes of the present study were ( 1 ) to determine the binding of human recombinant bFGF to the intact and ulcerated gastric mucosa ; ( 2 ) to assess the protective activity of bFGF against the damage by various irritants and stress ; ( 3 ) to examine the efficacy of bFGF in ehaling of gastric ulcers ; and ( 4 ) to evaluate the interaction of bFGF with sucralfate in the gastroprotection and healing of gastric ulcerations in rats . |
| 18 | In 1988 the plaintiff commenced an action for damages on the ground of negligence against the defendant health authority . |
| 19 | I opened my eyes under water and saw the ghost-like shape of Harvey against the darkness all around . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the ultimate defence of literature against the culturalist or contextualizing pressures which want to turn it into something else is usually along aesthetic lines . |
| 21 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 22 | The boy will no doubt succeed in his claim for breach of contract against the retailer , as will the retailer succeed against the wholesaler and the wholesaler against the manufacturer , Godley v. Ferry ( 1960 Q.B. ) . |
| 23 | Alice would have an action for breach of contract against the retailer and could utilise the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , ss. 14(2) and 14(3) . |
| 24 | The retailer in turn would have an action for breach of contract against the wholesaler and the wholesaler against the manufacturer . |
| 25 | Liverpool 's Israeli star will be in court to bring charges of breach of contract against the relegation threatened Italian club for an incident four years ago . |
| 26 | The disadvantage of this is the amount of resistance against the vane when striking preventing hook penetration , difficult enough at 200 yards without adding problems . |
| 27 | For most of these volunteers the war represented a kind of crusade against the greatest evil of the day : fascism , as represented by General Franco 's Nationalist rebels and their Italian and German allies . |
| 28 | Protests are being staged in the northern Tanzanian town of Moshi against the construction of a pesticides plant . |
| 29 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 30 | Finally , in Italy and Germany , it had to live down decades of struggle against the nationalist movements . |