Example sentences of "spoke [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blind man nodded , spoke up against the weary roar of the airstream that broke like surf on this rocky spur deep in Antarctic Mars , and in his voice was a smile , the first emotional response he 'd given them . |
| 2 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , a graduate of the John Wayne memorial diplomatic academy , spoke out against the emergence in Britain of a ‘ Pharisee ’ society of self-interest and intolerance . |
| 3 | He then spoke out against the legislation , from the backbenches , when it was introduced in the Commons . |
| 4 | Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners . |
| 5 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 6 | Several spoke out against the harshly self-righteous tone of the original motion . |
| 7 | After the debate , a number of bishops hastened to assure the mass media that they would not knowingly employ gay clergy , although one or two spoke out against homophobia . |
| 8 | He knew this as did other ‘ leading lights ’ who spoke out against the regime such as Liu Binyan and Wang Ruowang . |
| 9 | There was no outright attack on the civil rights gained so far , but Nixon , mindful of the white " backlash " in 1968 , spoke out against some of the more unpopular results of greater racial equality , such as the bussing of school-children . |
| 10 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 11 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 12 | In 1621 he spoke out against the patentee , Sir Giles Mompesson [ q.v. ] , and the popish threat to the Palatinate ; and in 1629 delivered a notable attack on the influence of the king 's Arminian advisers . |
| 13 | It was not until late May , when the violence threatened to get out of hand , that government ministers spoke out against it . |
| 14 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 15 | Delegates called on the Council of Ministers to " pay attention to enhancing people 's confidence in the new regime " and to promoting economic development , and spoke out against price rises and " random , state-private economic exploitation " . |
| 16 | Hundreds of people spoke out against Anchor International 's scheme to bring ten floodlit pitches to Clairville Common , Middlesbrough , last year . |
| 17 | After he spoke out against the letter , Lynch was ordered to take a year 's sabbatical in Rome — even though by this time his ministry was receiving worldwide media coverage . |
| 18 | A day after his wife , Hillary , spoke out against profiteering by vaccine makers , Mr Clinton said the industry 's profits were rising four times faster than those of an average major company . |