Against in sentence

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I've got nothing against people who take them short term, when they're going through something horrible.

I am not against wind energy, but we need to work with the governments, because wind turbines do this to birds.

Artists also speak about how pushing up against the limits of what they can do, sometimes pushing into what they can't do, helps them focus on finding their own voice.

And then use them against us.

So in theory, yes, in theory, you can rise against a corporation, just as, in theory, you can rise against a dictatorship.

This shows public support for congestion pricing of Stockholm, and you see that when congestion pricing were introduced in the beginning of Spring 2006, people were fiercely against it.

It is a struggle within, a struggle against vice, sin, temptation, lust, greed.

But there have always been, in Islam, a small group, a minority, who believe that jihad is not only an internal struggle but also an external struggle against forces that would threaten the faith, or the faithul.

And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their minds they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.

His idea of jihad was a global war of terror, primarily targeted at the far enemy, at the crusaders from the West, against America.

Opinion polls from all over the Muslim world show that there is very little interest among Muslims in a global holy war against the West, against the far enemy.

Occasionally they will go across a border, from Iraq to Syria, from Mali to Algeria, from Somalia to Kenya, but they're not fighting a global jihad against some far enemy.

And then the Yemeni military got its act together, and ordinary people rose up against these guys and drove them out, and since then, most of their activities, most of their attacks have been directed at Yemenis.

We have the knowhow, and we can take the lessons we've learned from the fight against global jihad, the victory against global jihad, and apply those to local jihad.

Any claim that al Qaeda had to being protectors of Islam against the Western crusaders was drowned in the blood of Iraqi Muslims.

And then, when they come out, most states don't even have a law prohibiting employers from discriminating against people with a background.

It gives new meaning to models against animal testing, doesn't it?

So all we're interested in here is comparing the temperature of the beetle against the background.

And in this supposed source of our moral values, one can read descriptions of what was expected in warfare, such as the following from Numbers 31: "And they warred against the Midianites as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males.

You have Democrats overwhelmingly supportive of raising the income tax on people who make 250,000 dollars a year, Republicans sort of against it, although if you break it out by income, Republicans who make less than 75,000 dollars a year like this idea.

We will never again have a political class that was forged by the experience of fighting together in World War II against a common enemy.

They are doing a phenomenal job of teaching girls how to defend against the patriarchy, but they are not necessarily showing boys how they're supposed to defend against the patriarchy.

So our sons are going to have to find some way of adapting to this, some new relationship with each other, and I think we really have to show them, and model for them, how a real man is someone who trusts his sisters and respects them, and wants to be on their team, and stands up against the real bad guys, who are the men who want to abuse the women.

"Work is against human nature.

Unfortunately, the little artists within us are choked to death before we get to fight against the oppressors of art.

I was working on my computer trying to finish a freelance writing assignment, and I got frustrated, and Conor used my anger as an excuse to put both of his hands around my neck and to squeeze so tightly that I could not breathe or scream, and he used the chokehold to hit my head repeatedly against the wall.

Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?

I joined forces with many other Libyans inside and outside Libya to call for a day of rage and to initiate a revolution against the tyrannical regime of Gaddafi.

It's also kind of a protest, a personal protest, against the culture we have now where people just are at concerts with their cell phones out recording the whole concert, and they're disturbing you.

But the test of truth is, how do you weigh that priority against other priorities?

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