Example sentences of "[verb] launched a [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State Council has launched a campaign against the ‘ Seven Evils ’ : prostitution ; pornography ; the kidnapping and sale of women and children ; the trafficking and use of drugs ; gambling ; swindling through superstitions ; and triads ( criminal societies ) . |
| 2 | Survival International has launched a campaign against the programme and its likely effects on the indigenous inhabitants of the forest . |
| 3 | France 's Green Party ( Les Verts ) has launched a campaign against the proposed project for a canal linking the Rhine and Rhone rivers . |
| 4 | Greenpeace has launched a campaign against predatory logging in the Amazon . |
| 5 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 6 | Nor can Socrates ' association with some of the Thirty Tyrants who , with Spartan support , had launched a coup against the democracy five years earlier , have been decisive . |
| 7 | Iraq claimed that its troops had been invited into Kuwait by internal " revolutionaries " who had launched a coup against the Amir , a claim which was internationally repudiated . |
| 8 | Well , they have launched a campaign against fraud and are lowering the groupings of new cars with safety and security devices fitted as standard . |
| 9 | Navajo Indians in Arizona have launched a campaign against mining activities which they claim are polluting water supplies , interfering with sacred sites and threatening local sheep farmers with coal dust poisoning . |
| 10 | A coalition of 28 US environment and consumer groups have launched a campaign against the harmonization of key environmental standards proposed under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |