Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

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.

Gerald Jonas of The New York Times noted that " Against all odds, the universe of Dune keeps getting richer in texture, more challenging in its moral dilemmas.

* UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ).

Against this, Robinson points out that all the synoptics are agreed that, when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem in the week before his death, he already has a number of followers and disciples in the city, notably Joseph of Arimathea, and the unnamed landlord of the upper room, who knows Jesus as ' the Master '.

Eusebius implies that other works were in circulation ; from St Irenaeus he knows of the apology " Against Marcion ," and from Justin's " Apology " of a " Refutation of all Heresies ".

The Against Marcion is lost, as is the Refutation of all Heresies to which Justin himself refers in Apology, i. 26 ; Hegesippus, besides perhaps Irenaeus and Tertullian, seems to have used it.

Against this, it has been argued that all known species of pinnipeds are usually visible on land during daylight hours to sunbathe, something that Nessie is not known to do.

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.

Adversus Omnes Haereses ( Against all Heresies )-poss.

Against all expectation, Grace produced in 1895 a season that has been called his " Indian Summer ".

Against all odds, they win 5 – 3.

Shortly thereafter, in the additional Regulations Against Jews ' Possession of Weapons of November 11, 1938, Jews were forbidden from possession of any weapons at all.

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.

* 14. 67 %— Against all candidates

Against all abuses, both civil and ecclesiastical ( excepting, of course, his own excesses ), Valentinian steadily set his face, even against the increasing wealth and worldliness of the clergy.

Some of the founders of the WSF, were part of the First International Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996, and decided to expand the idea and make it a global forum for activists of all stripes opposing hegemonic globalization and neoliberalism.

Didymus wrote many works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of John as Against the Arians, and On the Holy Spirit, which Jerome translated into Latin.

Against this, Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that a narrative understanding of oneself, of one's capacity as an independent reasoner, one's dependence on others and on the social practices and traditions in which one participates, all tend towards an ultimate good of liberation.

The ecumenical patriarch insisted that all of Barlaam's writings be destroyed and thus no complete copies of Barlaam's treatise " Against Messalianism " have survived.

Against all odds, the product apparently worked fine, as if nothing had happened.

In addition, the Nuremberg War Trial judgment on " The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity " held, under the guidelines Nuremberg Principles, that treaties like the Hague Convention of 1907, having been widely accepted by " all civilised nations " for about half a century, were by then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties whether the party was a signatory to the specific treaty or not.

Former Nye County Commissioner Candice Trummell, director of the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking, said " It is way past time for Nevada to be the last state in the United States of America to finally stand against all forms of slavery.

Against the overall loss from all causes of 108 P-40s and 25 P-35s, FEAF pilots were credited by USAF Historical Study No. 85, USAF Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II, with 35 aerial victories between 8 December 1941 and 12 April 1942.

Against the spirit of the Greek original, he engineers events at the end ... or alter the situation to fit his expectations .” Anderson ’ s vehement reaction to the co-opting of Greek plays by Plautus seems to suggest that they are in no way like their originals were.

Against anyone's expectations Doe Maar played eight shows in 2008 with Joost as the fifth man ; four club dates ( June ), a three-night residency at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadium ( July 11, 12, 13 ), and a performance at Belgium's brand new Werchter Boutique-festival.

Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date ( it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar ), grossing more than US $ 1. 843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as " Leo-Mania.

Against these expectations, however, Titus proved to be an effective Emperor and was well loved by the population, who praised him highly when they found that he possessed the greatest virtues instead of vices.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

Against expectations, he appointed Castellano to succeed him over his underboss Aniello " Neil " Dellacroce.

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

Against all expectations, Alejandro Fernández didn't sing during the movie while mounting a horse ( a family icon for the Fernandez's ).

Against its producers ' expectations, it ended up becoming a hit.

Against all expectations, the slave trade is successfully maintained under the new King, thanks to da Silva's resourcefulness.

Against all expectations, Lincoln reached the play-off final in the 2002 – 03 season, conceding just 37 league goals with Marriott keeping 18 clean sheets in the league.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.

The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned ; on the contrary, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this limited reading of the Fourteenth Amendment in United States v. Morrison,, in which it held that Congress did not have the authority to enact parts of the Violence Against Women Act.

Against these arguments, " centralised " guns still rewarded the true marksman, regardless of advances in gunsight technology: their range was limited only by ballistics, as they did not need the " harmonisation " necessary to concentrate the fire of wing mounted guns.

did the same thing again for an emergency rally in November 2004 called by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.

Stigma and Miret reformed Agnostic Front in May 1996 and did a few reunion shows in December 1996, signing to Epitaph Records and recruiting Jimmy Colletti on drums and Rob Kabula, who was playing with Against The Grain at the time, on bass.

Against Finland, he scored his first international goal in what was only his second appearance, and subsequently he made Ramsey's squad for the competition, as did his West Ham team-mates Bobby Moore ( the England captain ) and Geoff Hurst.

As a result of scandals in the DPP administration, on September 9, 2006, former chairperson of the DPP, Shih Ming-teh, led an anti-Chen Shui-bian campaign called the Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go but did not achieve the desired result of President Chen's resignation.

However, recent scholarship has questioned Rabearivelo ’ s elevation as a colonial martyr, arguing that the poet was by and large an assimilationist who did not even think of himself as black, chief among them Richard Serrano in Against the Postcolonial.

" In addition to the Oresteia ( to which the Choephori belongs ), the Seven Against Thebes and Suppliants formed part of connected trilogies, as did the lost plays that make up the Lycurgeia.

This was the show at which Rage Against the Machine did not play, in protest of the Parents Music Resource Center.

Senator Fulbright's opening statement was appreciative of Kerry's views, and also mentioned a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision, subsequently reversed, which ruled that Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the group for which Kerry was a leader and spokesman, did not have a constitutional right to use the National Mall.

Against her mother's wishes, though, Claude did try to warn her younger sister Marguerite de Valois of the danger she would face as the new wife of the Huguenot King of Navarre on the night of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

Several of the songs that were recorded for Against the Wall, however, did appear much later on Perry's 1998 solo compilation, Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased.

The Rule was abolished " for all purposes " in Hong Kong by s. 33 Offences Against the Person Ordinance ( added by Ordinance No. 32 of 2000 ) following the recommendation of the Law Commission of Hong Kong ; the Commission did not consider it necessary to set a time limit beyond which prosecutions required the consent of the Secretary of Justice.

A review by Amnesty International, which did not use the United Nations Convention Against Torture as its definition of torture, of its case files found " reports of torture or ill-treatment by state officials in more than 150 countries from 1997 to 2000 ".

Israeli journalist Yossi Melman, who specializes in espionage stories, reported that based on his research with Dan Raviv ( released in their book Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars, ISBN 0985437812 ), Israel did not kill Arafat.

PLP alone ultimately did not have the strength to lead the SDS chapters it had successfully kept going, and so its wing buckled and collapsed a few years later — although not before a new group, the Committee Against Racism ( CAR ), was formed to replace it.

Against their previous rule they allowed him to spend some time working independently because they needed him and they did not want to take as many engagements as before.

In late 2003, Mills briefly joined the " Tell Us the Truth " tour, an anti-war, anti-George W. Bush administration collaboration with Tom Morello ( guitarist for Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, who, like Mills, did a solo acoustic set ), Jill Sobule, Steve Earle, Janeane Garofalo, Billy Bragg, and others.

In addition to that leadership of elders normally did not transcend into the authoritative structure, which characterizes the modern state ( see also Pierre Clastres ' thesis expounded in Society Against the State ).

Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this song into a lounge style on their 2005 album Aperitif for Destruction, and Avril Lavigne did as well in 2006.

:" I did something in Odds Against Tomorrow I'd been wanting to do in some pictures but hadn't had the chance.

Against the Veneti, the Romans were at a disadvantage, since they did not know the coast, and were inexperienced in fighting in the open sea with its tides and currents.

The Network Against Prohibition ran in several seats, but did noticeably poorly.

Against the dissidents Taylor deployed irregular ex-National Patriotic Front of Liberia fighters with his more privileged units, such as the Anti-Terrorist Unit, positioned to ensure the irregulars did fight.