Example sentences of "[been] direct against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central criticism of the 1960 programme has always been directed against its allegedly authoritarian character . |
| 2 | The second methodological objection has been directed against the proposition developed in this book that economic equilibrium in the Soviet economy is established on the basis of conflict between two antagonistic laws , the law of value and the law of primitive socialist accumulation which means denial that there is a single regulator of the whole system . |
| 3 | Such a brief survey can not do full justice to the theoretical ramifications of ‘ market economics ’ , but it should be sufficient to indicate how the new doctrine has been directed against the very basis of demand management as practised between 1950 and the early 1970s [ Walters , 1978 ] . |
| 4 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 5 | Much of the effort of the anti-abortion movement has been directed against clinicians and against researchers working on fetal tissue . |
| 6 | The evidence of these obstacles and resistances is plain enough , not only in the slow , uncertain and frequently subverted extension of the right to vote which I have already indicated , but in the bitter hostility and violence that has always been directed against the attempts of ordinary citizens and workers to organize themselves in trade unions , cooperatives , community action groups , and similar bodies . |
| 7 | In response to the dispersal decision ETA intensified an existing letter-bomb campaign which had been directed against prison officers since early 1989 . |
| 8 | However , the criticism that has been directed against the conflict between the principle of specialization ( that efficiency is increased by specialization ) and the principle of unity of command ( that efficiency is enhanced by having members in a determinate hierarchy of authority receive orders from no more than one person ) are relevant to a political view of organizations . |
| 9 | It could have been directed against a piratical descent of the sort which had happened in 1018 ( see above ) , and would occur again in 1047 , when twenty-five ships harried Sandwich and Wight . |