Example sentences of "[noun] against [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A senior civil servant later corrected the Home Secretary 's interpretation by arguing that offensive speeches against the Jews as a whole might be liable to prosecution if they were likely to occasion a breach of the peace under the Public Order Act . |
| 2 | The Hungarians attempted to create a marcher zone to protect their frontier against the Turks by supporting Bosnian resistance in the area between Jajce and the Sava , but after the battle of Mohács in 1526 these pockets of resistance soon collapsed and virtually all Bosnia and Hercegovina lay under the rule of the sultans until the late nineteenth century . |
| 3 | A representative system of government , coupled with a division of powers , was thus seen as providing safeguards against the dangers of democracy . |
| 4 | US environmentalists and trade union activists have united to demand changes to the proposed free trade agreement between the US and Mexico , which they claim fails to provide sufficient safeguards against the risks of cross-border pollution and the import of contaminated foods . |
| 5 | He saw it now as a crowding darkness of giant shapes against the merlons of the curtain wall , dominated by the eyeletted walls of the tall hexagonal keep . |
| 6 | He played three times for the Gentlemen against the Players between 1953 and 1955 as Surrey forged on to Championship victory after victory . |
| 7 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 8 | Neither programme really effected any change in the course of events , but they did build a sense of trust in those who might one day use us to bear public witness against the Godfathers of terrorism . |
| 9 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 10 | Staff Sergeant Michael Tilghman , a security officer at Bentwaters air base in Suffolk , was convicted at a court martial of the rape of his British girlfriend against the conditions of the Visiting Forces Act which states that cases of murder and rape must be tried by domestic civilian courts . |
| 11 | Not that I 'm suggesting that a partnership is an investment against the ills of old age , only that it can help smooth the way , comfort a little . |
| 12 | in financial straits , from quaere ( Lat. ) meaning ‘ inquire ’ , a mark made by tradesmen in their ledgers against the names of customers whose solvency they doubted . |
| 13 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 14 | An increasing amount of documentary material , however , particularly among the evidence which led to the indictment of Weinberger , suggested that Bush had not merely known of , but also encouraged pursuit of the deal against the objections of Weinberger and the then Secretary of State George Shultz . |
| 15 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 16 | First it was defeat against the Germans at Wembley to end a 12game unbeaten run . |
| 17 | If his explanations were wrong , it made no difference to his faith ; if they were right , they strengthened the community of believers against the attacks of critics , and added the pleasure of understanding to the duty of believing . |
| 18 | The college , apparently with your approval , are proceeding with the eviction of the club against the wishes of the members , Local Parish Council , Community Council and the residents of the village . |
| 19 | Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground , the side of the punter against the forces of evil . |
| 20 | Roadways were widened to double their … size , sidewalks narrowed … pedestrians began to cower in fear against the walls of buildings . ’ |
| 21 | By Jan. 3 the Constitutional Council had received 341 appeals from various parties against the results of the Dec. 26 voting , on the grounds of alleged irregularities in 145 different constituencies . |
| 22 | And yet dignity is a synthetic property , invented to stop the ears against the noises of humiliation . |
| 23 | The ideal to be aimed at is to find the optimum way of balancing the costs of insufficient stock against the costs of holding stock ( tied-up capital , storage space , insurance , damage etc ) . |
| 24 | It is convenient first to consider a jurisdictional point raised by Mr. Beloff , who submitted that the only proper mode of challenge by the plaintiffs to the validity of the notice must be by way of judicial review against the Bank of England , rather than by way of an action against the defendants for injunctive relief , since in a normal case ( i.e. one without an injunction ) there would be no question of a customer having locus in any court other than by way of judicial review . |
| 25 | Leigh , with the backing of his newspaper and the NUJ , brought an action against the justices in the High Court , which granted him a declaration that the policy of anonymity was " inimical to the proper administration of justice and an unwarranted and unlawful obstruction to the right to know who sits in judgment " . |
| 26 | The police action against the members of Black Sash , which , although legal elsewhere in South Africa , remains banned in Bophutatswana , underscored the extremely restrictive conditions confronting human rights as well as political activists in Bophutatswana . |
| 27 | They took part in the action against the Turks in the Aden Protectorate . |
| 28 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 29 | The procedural consequence of the doctrine of corporate legal personality is that the proper plaintiff in any action against the directors for breach of their duties is the company , not individual shareholders . |
| 30 | Cleveland trading standards officer Eric Robinson who collated a file of complaints against SureStyle , said they wanted the Office of Fair Trading to take action against the directors of SureStyle to ensure they as individuals did not pursue these sales tactics in the future . |