Example sentences of "[vb pp] out against " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In mid July , at Ann Arbor , the ‘ revolutionary media ’ conference had come out against sexism in the underground press . |
| 4 | Noah Plunkett and his family have come out against it . |
| 5 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The governing body of English basketball has come out against a top woman player who wants to compete with men . |
| 8 | But Machynlleth councillors have come out against the Trust 's plans to close the district hospital and have vowed to campaign to save it . |
| 9 | RESIDENTS in the area where a new superstore is planned have come out against the proposals . |
| 10 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many bombing and rocket strikes were carried out against enemy lines of communication and supplies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 17 | The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise . |
| 18 | Katell was fighting a cold and her show was played out against the distracting backdrop of a surreal domestic theatre set . |
| 19 | Russian tanks were called out against striking East Germans and then against the ‘ defiance of Poland ’ in 1956 , when the Russian divisions marching on Warsaw almost found themselves fighting the Polish army and the armed workers of the capital . |
| 20 | It is very doubtful whether the occasional smack meted out against a background of a loving , accepting home , does anyone much harm ; but this is true only if the punishment is not too severe or excessive . |
| 21 | Reports in the Washington Post of April 2 , citing the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch , also confirmed cases of revenge attacks meted out against Palestinians [ see p. 38118 ] and others suspected of collaborating with the Iraqis . |
| 22 | In her letter to BR Mrs. Buttigieg asked why the registration number of her car was not checked out against the season ticket holders ' records . |
| 23 | Premier John Major , who took Britain into the ERM against the advice of ex-premier Mrs Thatcher , has stuck out against devaluation . |
| 24 | The wounded were being laid out against the wall of the barn . |
| 25 | As well as maintaining his allegiance to Rome , Fr Jin is reported to have spoken out against government policies on contraception and abortion . |
| 26 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |
| 27 | A TIMBER importer has spoken out against Friends of the Earth 's claims that the mahogany trade is steeped in death and destruction . |
| 28 | The outbreak of hostilities had the immediate effect of silencing most of those within Congress who had spoken out against war , and effectively removed the argument that sanctions should be given a longer period in which to work . |
| 29 | The British Prime Minister , John Major , has spoken out against the US 's refusal to commit itself to a declaration concerning targets and schedules aimed at controlling emissions of greenhouse gasses . |
| 30 | ‘ Ministers have not only not spoken out against this irresponsibility but now can not speak persuasively against these boardroom excesses because so many ex-Cabinet Ministers are themselves among the beneficiaries of these excesses , ’ he said . |