Example collocations logo

Against in sentence

16730 examples of Against in a sentence

She had no shortage of material: in the decades following the Civil War, Southern whites attempted to reassert their power by committing crimes against Black people including suppressing their votes, vandalizing their businesses, and even murdering them.
She traveled to Europe, where she rallied European outrage against racial violence in the American South in hopes that the US government and public would follow their example.
The author had served in his native Florence for 14 years as a diplomat, staunchly defending its elected republican government against would-be monarchs.
It's the soft palate sealing up precisely against the back of the nose.
So if you say it loudly five times, feel your own soft palate snapping against the back of the throat.
They also made sure there was an expert nearby to offer pointers and to backstop against catastrophe.
For days, I sat and looked at his hands, the ones that yielded the knife, and against his pasty white skin, his eyes ... Well, he spent endless days in his cell, no sunlight, so his eyes were as black as his hair and his mustache.
Jane is now totally against the death penalty, And there was Bill.
I believe heroes are not created easily, and I choose to work with individuals who are survivors and facing everyday routines that are not always full of color, people who are on their way to a better life, fighting against life circumstances.
On TV shows, we have one anti-something speaker situated against a pro-something speaker.
And when you express your sorrow, and when you react against the cruelty, you get all kinds of reactions, messages on social media.
We're going to force you to act against your will, to bend to our will."
So now all of these distractions that worked against training now become rewards that work for training.
That's how distant we are from even meeting an air force willing to fly against ours.
The problem is you need a big, sexy opponent to fight against.
Yet the investigations against the American companies are the ones that have attracted the most attention and they have also attracted some accusations.
Augmented reality can also be used as a tool to support organizations that are fighting against systemic oppression.
And more concretely, we can use this technology as a way to support initiatives that are fighting against systemic racism.
When I saw my mother's first signature on her bidi-rolling wage book, when I felt the hot Delhi air against my face after a 50-hour train journey, when I finally felt free and let myself be, I saw a glimpse of that new world I longed for, a world where a girl like me is no longer a liability or a burden but a person of use, a person of value and a person of worthiness.
Then take it and put it right up against the screen of your own television set, and rub it out from the center to the corners, like this.
And these really aggressive behaviors, for the most part, are directed against individuals of the neighboring social group.
Can you be not for or against anything?
Well, if you take the greatest insights from ancient Asian philosophies and religions and combine them with the latest research on moral psychology, I think you come to these conclusions: that our righteous minds were designed by evolution to unite us into teams, to divide us against other teams and then to blind us to the truth.
And there's this great novel that Arthur Clarke wrote twice, called "Against the Fall of Night" and "The City and the Stars."
Then I remember the sacrifice of my father, who was tortured so many times for daring to protest against the regime.
It may be that there was a great war to be fought between West and East, and it was necessary on the axis of democracy against communism.
I was running against a two-term incumbent, and my opponent ran the classic partisan playbook.
What if we ran a campaign that was not about running against someone, but was about bringing people together behind a common vision?
Alongside other activists, he ran an incandescent campaign against hate.
Both men had been murdered by Dan White, a former fellow supervisor, who had positioned himself against those he called "radicals, social deviates and incorrigibles.”
BackNext