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It's called, "Some Reason for Chinese Exclusion: Meat versus Rice: American Manhood against Asiatic Coolieism: Which shall survive?"
They'd worn themselves out, beating themselves against the window, and, well, they were easy to capture.
Curves against sharp things.
So, Dad graduated Harvard in 1946, married my mom, and bought a house in Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first shots were fired against the British in 1775, although we didn't actually hit any of them until Concord.
This barrage of negativity is what we're up against: the crushing statistics, the violence, the mental health risks, the well-meaning but flawed response my parents gave me when I came out, that they didn't want me to have a harder life.
That's what we're up against.
Being literate didn't stop him form being discriminated against.
And this is why you can do nothing but point at the flock of starlings whose bodies rise and fall in inherited choreography, swarming the sky in a sweeping curtain that, for one blistering moment, forms the unmistakeable shape of a giant bird flapping against the sky.
For example, vaccines work by stimulating your immune system to make a strong response against a pathogen.
First, by taking proteins from flu strains from around the world and putting them on top of the designed protein particles I showed you earlier, we aim to make a universal flu vaccine, one shot of which gives a lifetime of protection against the flu.
This time around, said to me, "If you give us 50,000 US dollars, the judgement will be in your favor," irrespective of the fact that there was no evidence whatsoever that I had any wrongdoing on the charges that I was up against.
To have even a chance of doing so, we have to control the environment precisely: the thick tabletop and legs guard against vibrations from footsteps, nearby elevators, and opening or closing doors.
They call you a hero, someone who's lived the mythical hero's journey, who's endured impossible trials and, against the odds, lived to tell the tale, returning better and braver for what you're been through.
I'm not at all against education.
We can look at elephants and say, yes, they grieve, and we can renew our efforts against international trophy hunting and against poaching.
I tried to get it out of anybody I could, you know, "Who am I running against here?"
This is perhaps best exemplified in Hamlet’s most famous declaration of angst: "To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them."
It was against the law.
And those top 20 percent have been the best in the world, if you measure them against the other top 20 percent.
But even I, in my mulishness, even I have brushed up against that thing, at times.
Many of these poems were experimental and surreal, merging epic landscapes, supernatural themes, and feelings of longing with discussion of political strife and a poet’s responsibility to speak out against injustice.
For 1,300 years, Galen’s legacy remained untouchable– until renaissance anatomist Vesalius spoke out against him.
Under the surface lies its best defense against attack: a hard shell on its belly.
A turtle’s shell has obvious advantages for guarding against predators, but the rigid casing also presents some challenges.
Basically, in every round you get a randomly assigned letter on each Siftable, and as you try to make words it checks against a dictionary.
And you inject it by just bumping up the sound Siftable against a sequence Siftable.
And so were the threats against disobeying it.
And violence against women and girls is pervasive.
Scripts like these are insurance policies against disaster.
Even the wisest and most well-meaning people will give up if they have to swim against the current in the organizations in which they work.
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