Against in sentence

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Basically most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day.

Now, the trouble with just sending a bomb out for this thing is that you don't have anything to push against in space, because there's no air.

I learned that it was against the law in Kenya.

It was kind of a nasty way to get maturation, but we got it, because we all understood it, and for the first time that I could remember, there were mass protests against this corruption.

We had the journalist [Heather] Brooke speaking about her battle against government corruption, and she introduced me to this website, Alaveteli.com.

Now, the main defense against pack-hunting predators is to get into herds, and the larger the herd, the safer the individuals.

And the answer is, these social problems are massive in scale, our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny.

It's an apartheid, and it discriminates against the nonprofit sector in five different areas, the first being compensation.

Let's go back before Christ, three millennia, to a time when, at least in my head, the journey for justice, the march against inequality and poverty really began.

I love going up against Disney and HBO.

And finally, point number three: Whatever one wants to say about Lesterland, against the background of its history, its traditions, in our land, in USA-land, Lesterland is a corruption, a corruption.

It works against the left and the right, and that, you might say, is good news.

And in those days, I developed an ear to identify birds just by the sound of the bangs they made against the glass.

And it was on June 5, 1995, that I heard a loud bang against the glass that changed my life and ended that of a duck.

It flew against the window.

The only thing this bird did was fly against this window from 2004 to 2008, day in and day out.

I show you here some slides, some frames from the video, and at the last moment before he hits the glass, he puts his feet in front, and then he bangs against the glass.

I remember being able to play Trivial Pursuit against my parents back in the '80s and holding my own, back when that was a fad.

And the crowd was full of IBM V.P.s and programmers cheering on their little darling, having poured millions of dollars into this hoping against hope that the humans screw up, and holding up "Go Watson" signs and just applauding like pageant moms every time their little darling got one right.

And often, I'll hear people say, who maybe know that I did this film, and they say, "Oh, you know, I'm against the war, but I support the soldiers."

And in 2001, I had 26 million hits, and for "computer," because computers are against humans a bit, I have 42 million hits.

People are racing against the machine, and many of them are losing that race.

Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

It got so bad that, when he was asked what strategy he would use against a computer, Jan Donner, the Dutch grandmaster, replied, "I'd bring a hammer."

Racing with the machine beats racing against the machine.

But as we were doing the inspiring work of building search engines and video-sharing sites and social networks, criminals, dictators and terrorists were figuring out how to use those same platforms against us.

We fought very hard against the dictatorship, in a moment it was necessary to us: Either go into clandestinity with weapons in hand, or leave Brazil.

I'm not here to argue against science and math.

And you can measure the performance, in terms of energy consumption, of that building against a typical library.

And every time the hula hoop would smush against her body, it would connect two little pieces of copper tape, and it would make a sound, and the next sound, and it would loop the same sounds over and over again.

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