Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.

Against weaker players whose intended strokes are obvious, an experienced player may move before the shuttlecock has been hit, anticipating the stroke to gain an advantage.

Hezbollah has a military branch known as Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (" The Islamic Resistance ") and is the possible sponsor of a number of lesser-known militant groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself, including the Organization of the Oppressed, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, the Organization of Right Against Wrong, and Followers of the Prophet Muhammad.

In 189, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies ( 3: 3: 2 ): " With Church of Rome, because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree ... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.

Against common belief that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector, they showed that, smuggling might not enhance social welfare though it may divert resources from government to private sector.

Against this it may be asserted that the qualities developed are intrinsically valuable, but this view would need further justification.

In September 2008, APA ’ s members passed a resolution stating that psychologists may not work in settings where “ persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law ( e. g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions ) or the U. S. Constitution ( where appropriate ), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights .” The resolution became official APA policy in February 2009.

* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.

Against this, it has been objected that, although the battle may have prevented large-scale movements, the passage of British-speakers between the two areas seemingly stayed possible, given that a Welsh genealogy appears to record that, in the 7th century, the descendants of kings of Pengwern founded a dynasty in the Glastonbury region.

This is because in the future it may be the consensus view that depleted uranium projectiles breaches one or more of the following treaties: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; the Charter of the United Nations ; the Genocide Convention ; the United Nations Convention Against Torture ; the Geneva Conventions including Protocol I ; the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980 ; the Chemical Weapons Convention ; and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

Against an extreme pull hitter the shortstop may tend to a position about halfway between second base and third base for a right-hand hitter, and even on the first-base side of second base for a left-hand hitter.

Against some rubble piles, a nuclear bomb may be delivered to it and dock with it, then it could penetrate to its center, and explode sending fragments in all directions, thus reducing the amount of material reaching the Earth.

Against the Grain may refer to:

However, it may be used as an encyclopaedia of Dark creatures studied in Defence Against the Dark Arts classes.

Against the young Earth Creationist attacks on " evolutionism " and " Darwinism ", critics argue that every challenge to evolution by YECs is either made in an unscientific fashion, or is readily explainable by science, and that while a gap in scientific knowledge may exist now it is likely to be closed through further research.

It was answered by Gosson in his Playes Confuted in Five Actions ; and Lodge retorted with his Alarum Against Usurers ( 1585 )— a tract for the times which may have resulted from personal experience.

Against this, if there are multiple targets, each will be reflecting the same radar signal and the missile may become confused as to which target is its intended victim.

From this perspective, Against Herodotus may have been an abridged version or just a part of Aegyptiaca that circulated independently.

They had ties to radical leftist organizations such as Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers and John Sinclair's White Panther Party ( composed of white American socialists seeking to assist African Americans in the fight for racial equality-it was not, as the title may suggest, a white supremacist group ).

You may be looking for the 2002 film Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla.

This makes the role of Alvin somewhat less independent: whereas in Against the Fall of Night he was an adventurer, albeit " the first to be lucky ", in The City and the Stars it seems at the end that he may have been a pawn.

Against this, there is some archaeological evidence that the Sami range may have been wider in antiquity.

* The Tiananmen Papers, The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against their Own People — In their Own Words, Compiled by Zhang Liang, Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, with an afterword by Orville Schell, PublicAffairs, New York, 2001, hardback, 514 pages, ISBN 1-58648-012-X An extensive review and synopsis of The Tiananmen papers in the journal Foreign Affairs may be found at Review and synopsis in the journal Foreign Affairs.

According to a Nickelodeon producer, who stated: Going Great may have been one of the lowest rated Nickelodeon TV programs, but the show Against the Odds was even worse.

They also opened for Rage Against the Machine in Mexico City.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

Against this, Numbers also demonstrates the importance of holiness, faithfulness and trust: despite God's presence and his priests, Israel lacks faith and the possession of the land is left to a new generation.

Eastman also became executive director of the American Union Against Militarism, which lobbied against America's entrance into the European war and more successfully against war with Mexico in 1916, sought to remove profiteering from arms manufacturing, and campaigned against conscription and imperial adventures.

In 1995 the Supreme Court rejected the Gun-Free School Zones Act in the Lopez decision, and also rejected the civil remedy portion of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 in the United States v. Morrison decision.

In 2000 the Federation of Expellees also initiated the formation of the Center Against Expulsions ().

Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.

Frankenheimer won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award.

Against the background of the German Peasants ' War, unrest also arose among the townsfolk in 1525.

music, they also developed a separate genre that was more in line with their politics: Rock Against Communism ( RAC ).

The Second Punic War, also referred to as The Hannibalic War, ( by the Romans ) The War Against Hannibal, or " The Carthaginian War ", lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean.

Venezuela worked closely with its neighbors following the 1997 Summit of the Americas in many areas — particularly energy integration — and championed the OAS decision to adopt the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, also being among the first to ratify it ( in 1997 ).

Against mounted opponents, the weapon could also be directed at the legs of the horse, toppling the armoured foe to the ground where he could be more easily attacked.

Willkie was also featured as a character in Philip Roth's counterfactual history novel, The Plot Against America, in which Willkie opposes Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 presidential election.

His main argument for the infinity of God, which can be found in Against Eunomius, is that God's goodness is limitless, and as God's goodness is essential, God is also limitless.

* John Chrysostom becomes a presbyter ; he also writes eight Homilies entitled " Adversus Iudaeos " (" Against the Jews ").

In conjunction with the publication of the Return to adventures, WotC also produced a series of companion novels known as the Greyhawk Classics series: Against the Giants, White Plume Mountain, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, Keep on the Borderlands,

Torture is also prohibited by the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which has been ratified by 147 countries.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

He was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller Against All Odds ( 1984 ) and the crime drama Jagged Edge ( 1985 ).

In the US, groups like Black Mask ( later Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers ), The Weathermen, and the Rebel Worker group also explicitly employed their ideas.

He also brought out the editio princeps of the speeches of Hypereides Against Demosthenes ( 1850 ), On Behalf of Lycophron and Euxenippus ( 1868 ), and his Funeral Oration ( 1858 ).

Warners remade the film in 1936 as Two Against the World, also known as One Fatal Hour, starring Humphrey Bogart in Robinson's part and set in a radio station instead of a newspaper.

This same performance also led to an “ Excellence in Media Award ” by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ).

To monitor the implementation at national level of the requirements and principles provided in those texts, a monitoring mechanism – the Group of States Against Corruption ( also known as GRECO ) ( French: Groupe d ' Etats contre la corruption ) was created.