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Against and wishes
Against my folks' wishes, we'd been seeing each other for short rides in the truck.
Against his wishes, Bulwer-Lytton was honoured with a burial in Westminster Abbey.
Against his parents ' wishes, Rock signed the deal at age seventeen.
Against his father's wishes he devoted himself at an early age to the monastic life.
Against her family's wishes, she married on 17 March 1947 to failed American movie producer David Alfred Sebastian, born in Detroit on 23 November 1908.
Against his wishes Nicias was appointed General along with Alcibiades and Lamachus, all three of whom were given full powers to do whatever was in the best interests of Athens while in Sicily.
Against his father's wishes, McMahon began an expansion process that fundamentally changed the industry.
Against his father's wishes, John Jr. pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years and five months imprisonment in 1999.
Against her husband's wishes, Ellen had read the book he found.
Against his wishes, she goes home to her father's cottage, where she keeps almost entirely to her room.
Against the wishes of his family, however, he entered the community of Canons Regular at the Abbey of St. Vincent on the outskirts of Lisbon.
Against his father's wishes, Eric entered into marriage negotiations with Princess Elizabeth Tudor ( later Queen Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603 ).
Against her mother's wishes but with her father's support, Bow competed in Brewster publications ' magazine's annual nationwide acting contest, " Fame and Fortune ", in 1921.
Against Curzon's wishes, but on the advice of Sir George Milne, the commander on the spot, the CIGS Henry Wilson, who wanted to concentrate troops in Britain, Ireland, India and Egypt, and of Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.
Against the Company's wishes, he provided substantial aid and assistance to westbound Americans settlers in the territory.
Against her mother's wishes, on December 31, 1946, Crain married Paul Brinkman, a former RKO Pictures contract player credited as Paul Brooks.
Against his father's wishes, Wolfowitz decided to go to graduate school to study politics.
Against the wishes of Marshall, he gave the commencement address for the Class of June 1943 at West Point, where his son Bruce was graduating.
Against his wishes Nicias was appointed General along with Alcibiades and Lamachus, all three of whom were given full powers to do whatever was in the best interests of Athens while in Sicily.
Against his wishes, they set up Phil with a blind date, Marilyn Holmberg, a nursery-school teacher working on her master's degree.
Against his wishes, he was assigned to what was supposed to be the civilian post of custodian of the California Archives from March 1850 until he left California in April 1851.
Against Preston's express wishes, the leader of the SAS team shoots the Russian agent in the head afterwards.
Against her father's wishes, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King.
Against the wishes of General Jaruzelski, the Polish Communist President, he insisted on laying a wreath at the grave of the murdered Polish priest Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, and had a meeting with three of the leaders of the banned Solidarity movement.

Against and Orozco
Between 1922 – 1924, Orozco painted the murals: " The Elements ", " Man in Battle Against Nature ", " Christ Destroys His Cross ", " Destruction of the Old Order ", " The Aristocrats ", and " The Trench and the Trinity " at the National Preparatory School.
Among the murals that Orozco destroyed are, The Elements, Man Struggling Against Nature, Man Falling, and Christ Destroying His Cross.

Against and Villa
* Margarita Tupitsyn, Against Kandinsky ( Munich: Museum Villa Stuck, 2006 ).
Against Aston Villa, Pirès chased after a long ball by Freddie Ljungberg, and lobbed the ball over the pursuing George Boateng, and finished off the move with a delightful chip over Peter Schmeichel.
Against Aston Villa's rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers at Villa Park, he scored his third goal of the season from a Marc Albrighton cross.
File: FACupFinal1905NewcastleVilla. jpg | Against Aston Villa in the 1905 FA Cup final.

Against and fought
* Hypseus, son of Asopus, who fought in the war of the Seven Against Thebes.
George Roucou, marching to freedom, with his wife Kay and Workers Against Racism organiser Charles LongfordThe RCP's ' Workers Against Racism ' campaign fought many deportation threats, like George Roucou's, on the grounds that British immigration law was racist.
Against such aggression the Chinese were unable to hold, and although the majority bravely fought to the death, others fled across the open ground.
In Greek mythology, Epigoni ( Greek:, meaning " offspring ") are the sons of the Argive heroes who had fought and been killed in the first Theban war, the subject of the Thebaid, in which Polynices and six allies ( the Seven Against Thebes ) attacked Thebes because Polynices ' brother, Eteocles, refused to give up the throne as promised.
At Against All Odds, Team 3D and Johnny Devine fought The Motor City Machineguns and Jay Lethal in a Street Fight but lost.
Against a very heavy British skirmish line, Loison's division fought its way forward.
Against them was a brave rag-tag Army of Americans ( never assisted by European allies ) who fought as their frontiersmen ancestors had fought a century before them.
Against Sir Arthur Wellesley's English army he fought a skillful and brilliant rear-guard action at the Battle of Roliça.
* Joint Expedition Against Franklin, fought October 3, 1862, in Franklin, Virginia, and the nearby Blackwater River
Against the wishes of many of his constituents, McGee stood on principle and fought hard for positions unpopular in Wyoming in support of gas rationing and the 55-mile per hour speed limit in the era of the first Arab oil embargoes.

Against and for
Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.
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 this invincible determination to communize the whole world stands a group of nations unable to agree on fundamentals and each refusing to make any sacrifice of sovereignty for the common good of all.
They also opened for Rage Against the Machine in Mexico City.
See the United Nations website for full text on " Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation ".
The drive was called the Carnival Against Capital, or J18 for short.
In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.
Against this backdrop, American exporters are finding quite favorable overseas markets for their products and U. S. consumers are responding to their general housing slowdown by slowing their spending.
Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Drought in the Sahel.
Jerome referred to marriage prohibition for priests when he argued in Against Jovinianus that Peter and the other apostles had been married before they were called, but subsequently gave up their marital relations.
The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.
Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ).
In May 2007, Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and later donated $ 1 million to the cause.
Each group has a title — Carmina Nisibena, On Faith, On Paradise, On Virginity, Against Heresies — but some of these titles do not do justice to the entirety of the collection ( for instance, only the first half of the Carmina Nisibena is about Nisibis ).
In 1981, the International League Against Epilepsy ( ILAE ) proposed a classification scheme for individual seizures that remains in common use .< ref name =" ILEA1981 "> This classification is based on observation ( clinical and EEG ) rather than the underlying pathophysiology or anatomy and is outlined later on in this article.
* Guam Residents Organize Against US Plans for $ 15B Military Buildup on Pacific Island-video report by Democracy Now!
Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " and " Hello, I Must Be Going ", in Animal Crackers, " Whatever It Is, I'm Against It ", " Everyone Says I Love You " and " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ".
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.
Against the elite competition she finished tied for third with Ivanchuk.
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.
He directed two films for HBO in 1994: Against the Wall and The Burning Season that won him several awards and renewed acclaim.
But Orton, still on an absolute high, proceeded over the next ten months to revise The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp for the stage as a double called Crimes of Passion ; wrote Funeral Games ; wrote the screenplay Up Against It for the Beatles ; and worked on What the Butler Saw.

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