Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] itself against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 2 | The corpse seemed to brace itself against the tilt but that could not be , unless — |
| 3 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 4 | Classicism is now forced to defend itself against the onslaught of a disruptive non-classical culture with the result that the contemporary cultural sphere has polarised into two competing ideological positions which , for the sake of clarity , have been tabulated in Table 6.1 . |
| 5 | The British Field Sports Society is preparing to defend itself against another attempt in parliament to impose a ban on hunting . |
| 6 | In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful . |