Example sentences of "[verb] out against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapist can not win out against death , but he or she can win out for life , for a sense of the real , for the kind of growth that truly matters ; dealing as it does with the evaluation of ways to love and hate , with the meanings of human conduct , an appreciation of human nature , and the succession of the generations . |
| 2 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 3 | Look and see 'ow they stands out against t'brown o' t'earth . |
| 4 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 5 | If we want to have that freedom again — to stand out against the trend and , if necessary , to be on our own — then I pray that the Government will look hard at the question of retaining the right of a single foreign policy , with the decisions made by this country alone . |
| 6 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 7 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 8 | In mid July , at Ann Arbor , the ‘ revolutionary media ’ conference had come out against sexism in the underground press . |
| 9 | Noah Plunkett and his family have come out against it . |
| 10 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 11 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 12 | The governing body of English basketball has come out against a top woman player who wants to compete with men . |
| 13 | But Machynlleth councillors have come out against the Trust 's plans to close the district hospital and have vowed to campaign to save it . |
| 14 | RESIDENTS in the area where a new superstore is planned have come out against the proposals . |
| 15 | When the Parnell divorce crisis broke in 1890 , he resisted pressure from both nationalist politicians and ecclesiastics , such as Cardinal H. E. Manning and Archbishop T. W. Croke of Cashel [ qq.v. ] , to come out against Parnell . |
| 16 | Well , in recent months the goverment has made some strong statements about the importance of the family , Keneth Clark is one of the the latest goverment ministers to come out against nursery education for all … so does fellow Scots tory Phil Gallie agree ? |
| 17 | But men cry out against this . |
| 18 | Coyle has also invited Irish League opposition and Derry will line out against Ballymena United on Saturday , July 31 and Crusaders on Saturday August 7 . |
| 19 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 20 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 21 | Many bombing and rocket strikes were carried out against enemy lines of communication and supplies . |
| 22 | Since countries were obliged to maintain par values , it was possible for speculation to be carried out against the stronger and weaker currencies in the knowledge that the currencies concerned might be revalued or devalued respectively , but there was no danger of the strong currencies being devalued or the weak currency being revalued . |
| 23 | The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration . |
| 24 | On Oct 1 the high command of the ( Serbian-dominated ) Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , accusing Croatia of violating the Sept. 22 ceasefire [ see p. 38421 ] , threatened Croatia with reprisals on Croatian civilian targets for attacks carried out against JNA barracks in Croatia . |
| 25 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 26 | The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise . |
| 27 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 28 | Warmed by his body heat , her fingers spread out against his chest as if to absorb him . |
| 29 | He hit the sea in a shallow dive , swimming out against the wind . |
| 30 | PAULINE Connor , LL.B. will speak out against the abortifacient drug , RU486 , in York , on 9th November . |