Example sentences of "speak against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , there are several empirical results ( some provided by Lubow and Moore ( 1959 ) themselves ) that speak against it . |
| 2 | The pattern seen among women suggests the possibility of such an effect , but the low number of cases occurring seven years after start of cimetidine use or longer ( only six ) and the absence of any effect in men speak against the interpretation of the association as being casual . |
| 3 | So I move that we support the motion and speak against amendment . |
| 4 | One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway . |
| 5 | The campaign would be conducted at every level : regional offices , media-orientated information-packs , lobbying at national and constituency level , and public appearances of true patriots who would speak against the treaty and its progenitor — an oblique reference to the stricken man in the White House . |
| 6 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 7 | But all Frank had to do was speak against them and that made an end . |
| 8 | He could n't speak against that policy once he 'd accepted a government post . ’ |
| 9 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 10 | Speaking against social realism in ‘ The Author as Producer ’ , he identifies a work 's ‘ political tendency ’ and its ‘ literary tendency ’ . |
| 11 | Speaking against the motion , the Rev David Holloway ( Newcastle ) quoted a Canadian theologian . |
| 12 | John himself was warned by the local Police Inspector not to speak at the square again or he would be arrested for speaking against the national interest . |
| 13 | Speaking against the movement C Hughes argued that by passing this they would ‘ be voting for pacifism , and there would be no patriotic Stratford society after that ’ ( SE 3 August 18 ) . |
| 14 | Highlight of the International Council of Museums meeting was Russian Culture Minister Gubenko speaking against the mass media |
| 15 | There are a variety of ways of defeating a proposal other than directly speaking against it . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
| 17 | Three years ago they would have hesitated before speaking against the Seven ; now — however covertly — they sanctioned armed rebellion . |
| 18 | This conflict was uncharacteristic both because judges usually avoided speaking against the Government on matters of party policy and because judges usually worked behind the scenes to advance their own causes or to influence legal reforms . |
| 19 | Speaking against one member , one vote but also speaking against the half-hearted document that has been put out by the C E C. |
| 20 | Speaking against one member , one vote but also speaking against the half-hearted document that has been put out by the C E C. |
| 21 | Er , Barbara , Birmingham Region , speaking against one one one , one one A , the amendment to rule A five with the support of the Birmingham Region . |
| 22 | It is an experience they have been prepared to share with other communities , and Jim Killeen has spoken against mining at meetings in Westport , Co . |
| 23 | Jesus is God ‘ incognito ’ : it is of the very nature of the presence of God as man that it must be ambiguous , that it may not be recognised by everyone , that the ‘ sign ’ by its very nature may be ‘ spoken against ’ . |
| 24 | Unitarians were very conscious that they too had suffered discrimination ; they were a group who , because of their heterodoxy , were ‘ everywhere spoken against ’ . |
| 25 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 26 | May a hundred evils befall him who has spoken against us ! |
| 27 | The reviewer summed up : ‘ For those who will not hear a word spoken against Churchill in 1940 this will be an infuriating book , as the watch the sharp , black-white chiaroscuro of Chamberlain v Churchill watered down to what the latter would call ‘ a sludgy amalgam ’ . |
| 28 | The final text defined as unconstitutional attempts to achieve territorial separation ; some deputies had wanted the qualification of " territorial " to be omitted , but President Ion Iliescu had spoken against this proposal , associated with an anti-Hungarian faction . |
| 29 | I would say however , that it 's not been tested whilst , and whilst there is n't a a clear expression of local preference in terms of the population , I think my elected members who represent that particular area would say that they are expressing local views when they have spoken against the new settlement . |
| 30 | Every moment of shared communication speaks against their total scepticism . |