Example sentences of "[verb] against him by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press reported that Sununu blamed his recent difficulties on a vendetta being pursued against him by enemies within the White House , elements of the liberal press and Jewish groups opposed to his Lebanese ancestry and his calls for even-handedness in US policy towards the Middle East . |
| 2 | But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date . |
| 3 | The one area of liability which really concerns the buyer is the possibility of claims made against him by third parties which arise because of some act or omission of the seller . |
| 4 | But he says just as worrying , is the string of unjustified complaints made against him by members of the public . |
| 5 | As a result , Mr Vafa , who was living in France at the time , says that allegations of violence made against him by his former wife and her family went unchallenged and resulted in the interdict preventing him from molesting and attacking his wife or members of her family . |
| 6 | Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident . |
| 7 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 8 | Saddam 's means of war are products of modern science and technology , as are those even more lethal systems being unleashed against him by the Western allies . |
| 9 | He is now facing a similar allegation in a £100,000 damages action raised against him by Mr Mullan 's widow and three teenage children . |
| 10 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 11 | FORMER Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders yesterday won another round in his battle to secure legal aid to fight the multi-million pound civil action brought against him by the company . |
| 12 | In April of 1920 , Charlie Chaplin , then sweltering through the divorce proceedings brought against him by Mildred Harris , was eating in a fashionable hotel restaurant when he came face to face with Louis B Mayer . |
| 13 | The three vices which he hated most , according to Isaacson , were usury , simony and sacrilege ; and he suffered much through suits brought against him by men to whom he had refused livings . |
| 14 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 15 | Archbishop Aethelheard was at Rome seeking to secure the person of Odberht/Eadberht to answer charges brought against him by Offa , but Charlemagne had also sent Eadberht and others , who were in fear of death from Offa and had sought his protection , to Rome to defend themselves in person before the pope . |
| 16 | The ambivalence of Mynne 's relations with the Crown is epitomized by the repeated accusations of delinquency ( that is , royalism ) brought against him by one of the parliamentarian committees in charge of penal taxation during the years 1643–7 . |
| 17 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |
| 18 | Dennis 's last years as general secretary at the BMC — already personally unhappy for him because of his divorce — were made professionally difficult by the unprincipled , sustained and often personal vendetta conducted against him by the man termed , in this book 's account of the period , as ‘ the BMC 's tame Rottweiler ’ . |
| 19 | Among several other flaws in Anselm 's election and investiture , there was one which neither Anselm nor anyone else mentioned at the time , but was later to be held against him by the papal legate : on a strict view , his election -in addition to all its other legal defects — had been schismatic , since the king and all the others who took part , with the sole exception of Anselm himself , were schismatics , for they had not recognized Urban II as the legitimate pope although he had now been pope for five years . |
| 20 | By 9 January 1177 he had besieged Dax , which had been held against him by the Viscount of Dax and Bigorre , and taken it ; he had besieged Bayonne , which the Viscount of Bayonne had held against him , and taken it ; he had marched right up to " the Gate of Spain " at Cize and there he had captured and demolished the castle of St Pierre . |
| 21 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |