Example sentences of "stood [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 2 | Many Christians can recognise secularism and have boldly stood up against it . |
| 3 | You ought to be stood up against a wall , you ought . |
| 4 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 5 | But to you … well , you must have stood out against him to do what you 've done the night so … so far ; you 'ave me thanks . ’ |
| 6 | They had stood out against ‘ the general voice of the whole British population ’ for emancipation ‘ was not a party question ; all denominations , whether Whig or Tory , Saint or Radical were united upon this one great point ’ . |
| 7 | The most publicized cases of such non-co-operation have occurred where some authorities have stood out against the minister on a highly political issue . |
| 8 | Trouble was , I 'd stood out against Crumwallis earlier this week . |
| 9 | The British people understand what is happening in the EC , and they understand that the Government have stood out against other Governments in blocking positive measures which would have benefited our citizens . |