Example sentences of "over against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 2 | He made it , too , taking over against Pakistan in 1982 for one match when Willis was injured — and , given the most toothless of bowling attacks , losing heavily . |
| 3 | It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day . |
| 4 | Female blood shed in menstruation and childbirth has been the particular focus on this definition of woman as polluted , over against male sacrality . |
| 5 | A monotheistic God is a God who insists on being ‘ over against ’ and separate from creation and from the gods of other nations . |
| 6 | Over against heaven is hell , separation from God , and again there is a wide variety of views as to whether one has to be ‘ actively bad ’ or just unconverted to be in hell after death . |
| 7 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 8 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 9 | Rab pushed her over against the wall in the wall-recessed bed . |
| 10 | Brawl The pot boiled over against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park that same year in a brawl of a game that resulted in bans for Gareth Chilcott , Graham Dawe , Wade Dooley and Hill , who was blamed for failing to exercise his captaincy correctly . |
| 11 | Thus the unique authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God came to be stressed with a quite new sharpness over against the established teaching . |
| 12 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 13 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 14 | The world itself is presented as a kind of self-projection of Geist , in which it brings itself into being as Nature , and so as over against itself ( thesis and antithesis ) . |
| 15 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 16 | His concern , especially in The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel ( 1828 ) and The Brazen Serpent ( 1831 ) , was to set a fresh insistence on God 's love and forgiveness over against the rather rigid and authoritarian Calvinism which ( at least in theory ) dominated his native land . |
| 17 | So , for instance , they saw the Roman Catholic Church as representing a ‘ Petrine ’ approach , over against which Protestantism had emerged as a ‘ Pauline ’ antithesis ; and both should ultimately be reconcilable in a ‘ Johannine ’ synthesis . |
| 18 | He can not be taken for granted as simply ‘ there ’ in our religious sense , our spiritual depth , or our moral awareness , for he transcends , he stands over against all of these . |
| 19 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 20 | ‘ Newman , ’ he persisted , ‘ you 're sure you 've got this right — about Bennington Machine Tools being taken over against this Archer 's wish by INCUBUS ? ’ |
| 21 | Over against the German army or the Vichy government , where social generality ruled , as it does in all machines of state , the Resistance offered the rare phenomenon of historical action which remained personal . |
| 22 | The knowledge with which it deals originates outside us ; the concept of nature standing over against us is not lightly to be abandoned . |
| 23 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 24 | There were two tents , thatched over against the sun , and here was the storeroom . |
| 25 | Please stand over against the wall . |
| 26 | It had been dry for weeks , but there were thunderheads over against the mountains and the atmosphere was heavy with the hint of rain . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it is commonly argued that the courts can fail to place a proper actuarial value on potential pension benefits and that ( typically in pursuit of a ‘ clean break ’ ) a divorcing wife 's loss of potential benefits can be ‘ traded off ’ or glossed over against her need for a home . |
| 28 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 29 | In the eighth century B.C. Hosea describes the prophet as supremely ‘ the man of the Spirit ’ ( 9:7 ) , and Micah spells it out more fully with his claim , over against the false prophets who get no word from God : |
| 30 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |