Against his father's wishes he devoted himself at an early age to the monastic life.

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 his wishes, she goes home to her father's cottage, where she keeps almost entirely to her room.

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 his father's wishes, Wolfowitz decided to go to graduate school to study politics.

Against his father's will, Kokoschka applied to Kunstgewerbeschule ( School of Arts and Crafts ) in Vienna, where he was one of three accepted out of 153 applicants.

Against her father's wishes, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King.

Against his father's wishes, Crittenden's son George resigned his position as a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army to enlist as a Confederate soldier.

Against his father's wishes, in August 1896 he married Grace Graham Wilson, the youngest child of New York banker Richard T. Wilson, Sr.

Against his father's wishes Arundell took his leave of the Imperial court in mid-December and returned to England.

Against his father's advice, Heishiro insists on retrieving the sword himself.

Against his father's wishes, Huo still wanted to learn wushu.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Against the will of the president of the German federal bank, he allowed a 1: 1 exchange rate for wages, interest and rent between the West and East Marks.

In March 2011, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has said that he will not allow city funding for the 2011 Toronto Pride Parade if organizers allow the controversial anti-Israel group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid ( QuAIA ) march again this year.

In 2005, forty-one years after his firing, Zinn returned to Spelman where he was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and delivered the commencement address where he said in part, during his speech titled, " Against Discouragement ," that " the lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right, and you persist, things will change.

Reunited with his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry returns to Hogwarts and learns that Dolores Umbridge, an employee of Fudge, will be his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

Against the will of the Serbs, the province was abolished in 1860, but the Serbs from the region gained another opportunity to achieve their political demands in 1918.

Against lighter projectiles the hardness of the tiles causes a " shatter gap " effect: a higher velocity will, within a certain velocity range ( the " gap "), not lead to a deeper penetration but destroy the projectile itself instead.

However, the Rule Against Perpetuities would void the interest to T's great-grandchildren, and leave the will creating the successive life estates with a reversionary interest in T's estate.

Against the advice of Li Zongren, who thought it was better to withdraw south, Chiang, having exclaimed, " I will not return to Nanking until Xuzhou is back in our possession ".

Against each program he will play ( at least ) a pair of games alternating starting with black and white.

Against the remaining two setups, the 2-0 mesh and the 1-1 short, a simple hammer attack will not work, because the two double linking paths are too widely separated.

* 1934: " Einheitsfrontlied " (" United Front Song "); " Saarlied " (" Saar Song "), " Lied gegen den Krieg " (" Song Against War "), " Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders " (" Ballad of the Jews ' Whore Marie Sanders "), Songs from Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe ; " Sklave, wer wird dich befreien " (" Slave, who will liberate you "; with Brecht ); " California Ballad "; Six Pieces ; Prelude and Fugue on B – A – C – H ( string trio )

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.

Justice for Magdalenes allege that the conditions within the Magdalene laundries and the exploitation of their labourers amount to human-rights violations and will present the case in front of the The U. N. Committee Against Torture.

Against the will of the Board of Education of Prince George's County, the federal court ordered that a school busing plan be set in place.

In Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants ( 1525 ), he condemned the violence as the devil's work, called for the nobility to put down the rebels like mad dogs, and explained the Gospel's view on free will and the sharing of wealth:

Her second single, Water Against The Rocks will be released in the UK on June 25, 2012.

Against small predators or other desert cottontails, it will defend itself by slapping with a front paw and nudging ; usually preceded by a hop straight upwards as high as two feet when threatened or taken by surprise.

In Parliament, Tory MP Nicholas Winterton demanded of the Home Secretary: ' if he will seek to proscribe the East London Workers against Racism vigilante group ' Workers Against Racism was criticised in the press for its activities during the 1981 Brixton Riots.

Against the will of the strike leadership the strikes escalated into street fighting in Berlin.

" We are delighted that 80 years of peaceful, legal campaigning has paid off and that hunters will not be permitted to inflict suffering on wild mammals for their entertainment ," a spokesman for the League Against Cruel Sports told BBC News.

Against the will of the chief of the general staff, Generaloberst Baron Arz, the Emperor Karl released Eugen from active service on 18 December 1917.

Against his will Pinto was transferred while en route to a naval fleet bound for the Sindhi port city of Debal near Thatta

" You could look at almost any district, and the people who sit on boards of museums and institutions will be wealthy and donate to campaigns ", said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste.

These two examples occurred when first, Meidias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theater ( Against Meidias ), and second when ( in Against Konon ) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim.

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 a player who doesn't understand the concept of a sacrifice, the expert simply has to make the correct number of sacrifices to encourage the opponent to hand him the first chain long enough to ensure a win.

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.

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 ).

Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab

The first record of a shield blazon is illustrated in Aeschylus ' tragedy Seven Against Thebes.

These two examples occurred when first, Midias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theatre ( Against Midias ), and second when ( in Against Conon ) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim.

The first four books of Against Heresies constitute a minute analysis and refutation of the Gnostic doctrines.

Against Russia Selim was less fortunate, and the first encounter between the Ottoman Empire and her future northern rival gave presage of disaster to come.

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 ).

His first independent work for Herzog was Precautions Against Fanatics in 1969.

It was the first of what became " The Bounty Trilogy ", which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

Against the Braves in the NLCS, Ryan completed a Mets sweep by throwing seven innings of relief in Game 3, getting his first playoff win ( it would take him 12 years to get another ).

Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1993.

" Have You Seen the Saucers " marked the beginning of a science-fiction theme that Kantner explored in Blows Against the Empire, his first solo album, released in 1970, and with many of his songs in the 70s and 80s.

Blows Against the Empire was the first rock album nominated for the Hugo science fiction award.

After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters ( as portrayed in the Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus and the Phoenician Women by Euripides ).

After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters of the Argive ( the Seven Against Thebes ).

The full name of his first book is Consultatio sive commonitorium ad Augustinum de errore Priscillianistarum et Origenistarum ( in English: Warnings and Reminders by Augustine Against the Errors of the Priscillians and the Origenists ).

However, after the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters ( the Seven Against Thebes ).