Example sentences of "carry out against " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 2 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 3 | Many bombing and rocket strikes were carried out against enemy lines of communication and supplies . |
| 4 | Since countries were obliged to maintain par values , it was possible for speculation to be carried out against the stronger and weaker currencies in the knowledge that the currencies concerned might be revalued or devalued respectively , but there was no danger of the strong currencies being devalued or the weak currency being revalued . |
| 5 | The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration . |
| 6 | On Oct 1 the high command of the ( Serbian-dominated ) Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , accusing Croatia of violating the Sept. 22 ceasefire [ see p. 38421 ] , threatened Croatia with reprisals on Croatian civilian targets for attacks carried out against JNA barracks in Croatia . |
| 7 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 8 | The survey was carried out against a background of growing concern as to the implications of climate change on sea level rise . |