Example sentences of "[noun sg] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RANGERS , who ended Motherwell 's reign as Tennant 's Scottish Cup holders last season , begin their defence of the trophy against the same opponents next month . |
| 2 | Yeats regarded Gibbon as being responsible for having ‘ moved the whole opposition against the poor girl ’ . |
| 3 | The talks resulted in Habyarimana agreeing to observe an immediate ceasefire in the fighting against the Uganda-based rebel forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( FPR ) , in return for Museveni 's promise that he would undertake to " persuade " the FPR to reciprocate and respect a ceasefire . |
| 4 | It was all very deliberate , keeping the interrogators ' faces dark against the bright window , and it made Maxim grin . |
| 5 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 6 | ONE STYLE MDV , BACK TO THE PLANET , THE SEA and six other bands play a multicultural ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ benefit at the London 's Triangle Music Workshop on March 16 . |
| 7 | The individual citizen was beginning to learn he had recourse against the all powerful government . |
| 8 | On the heels of a serious coup attempt against the Venezuelan government on 4 February , the authorities imposed severe censorship on all newspapers and all radio and television networks . |
| 9 | Forty-two soldiers were executed by firing squad on July 27 , having been found guilty by a special military tribunal of staging a coup attempt against the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) in April [ see p. 37367 ] , when 19 people were killed ( according to unofficial estimates , however , about 200 people died ) . |
| 10 | Sir Thomas Moore , seizing on the Teddy Boys as a further opportunity to sing the praises of the birch twigs , seemed to think that the name itself was a slander against the peaceful Edwardian years : ‘ On a point of order … |
| 11 | In the first Wilson was found guilty of slander against the Co-operative Wholesale Society which was awarded £pound150 damages and costs . |
| 12 | Thirty years later , the castle had become the O'Rourke stronghold against the encroaching English . |
| 13 | The purpose of the research is to test a series of theories recently developed in the field of historical geography against the perceived experience of communities in a hazardous physical and social environment ( fenland ) . |
| 14 | By recalling the strength of these beliefs and the cultural , especially literary , achievements this order produced , the Anglo-Saxon world could see more clearly the common need to defend those essential characteristics of its civilisation against the barbarous foe . |
| 15 | It was to these fanatical warriors , and above all to their chieftain , that both Motamid and the Caliph of Badajoz appealed for aid against the steady encroachments of Alfonso . |
| 16 | It is , perhaps , a matter of balancing intention against the total literary tone and integrity of each book . |
| 17 | 6.2 The Lease and the counterpart shall be prepared by the Landlord 's Solicitors and an engrossment of the counterpart shall be delivered to the offices of the Tenant 's Solicitors at least [ 5 ] working days before the Completion Date Five working days is too short for most institutional tenants to execute and return documentation , particularly where the tenant 's solicitor has to check the engrossment against the agreed form attached to the agreement for lease . |
| 18 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 19 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 20 | Secondly , if the provision of the directive in question is sufficiently clear and unconditional , it may be relied upon directly by the citizen against the defaulting Member State . |
| 21 | The ultimate sanction of oppositional nationalism is to claim legitimation for its own armed force against the armed force of the allegedly containing state . |
| 22 | From the early part of the nineteenth century , until absorbed in the new social purity movements of the 1880s , the Society for the Suppression of Vice ( founded in 1802 and known universally as the Vice Society ) remained the Victorian 's basic legal force against the obscene , and its work demonstrates the often close relationship between private vigilance and public authorities . |
| 23 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 24 | The ICO advocated the use of force against the Serbian forces in compliance with Article 42 of the UN charter , and the lifting of the UN arms embargo against Bosnia-Hercegovina ( approved in September 1991 — see p. 38422 ) . |
| 25 | — not to use force or threaten the use of force against the Persian Gulf countries , and not to interfere in their internal affairs ; |
| 26 | This watery bulwark gave the Germans no option but to turn the mass of their force against the British salient , north , east and south of Ypres . |
| 27 | NATO proposed to the Warsaw Treaty states a joint declaration " in which we solemnly state that we are no longer adversaries and reaffirm our intention to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state or from acting in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and with the CSCE [ Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ] Final Act . |
| 28 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
| 29 | Although fighting in Slovenia continued in early July , it was quickly over after a successful campaign of resistance by the well-organized Slovenian Territorial Defence Force against the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) . |
| 30 | Even the Jesuits , who were called upon in 1573 to lead the Kulturkampf against the Protestant heresy , were forced to provide devotional literature and hymns in Slovene . |