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 advice, Heishiro insists on retrieving the sword himself.

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

Against his father's will, he first hid Yoshitsune in escape but later killed him, fearing the possibility of Yoritomo's intervention.

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 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 her husband's wishes, Ellen had read the book he found.

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 Madero's wishes, Orozco and Villa fought for and won Ciudad Juárez, bordering El Paso, Texas, along the Rio Grande.

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 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 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.

Another such group was Parents Against Outcomes Based Education, who took the position that the implementation of OBE would pose significant problems and potentially lead to the decreased knowledge and performance of school students.

Karl Menger found mathematicians to be too parsimonious with regard to variables so he formulated his Law Against Miserliness which took one of two forms: " Entities must not be reduced to the point of inadequacy " and " It is vain to do with fewer what requires more.

Against Sweden in Bologna, Argentina twice took the lead, but two goals by Sven Jonasson and a winner by Knut Kroon gave Sweden a 3 – 2 victory.

At the beginning of the 1990s, bands such as Born Against, Rorschach, Burn and Drive Like Jehu took the 1980s styles of hardcore and pushed them into more contemporary sounds.

An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945 ( ISBN 978-0465042142 ) is a book by John Sack, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1, 000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians.

Against parental objections, she took a job at a stock company for seven months at Saranac Lake and then Hartford, Connecticut.

No quarter was given during the suppression of the resistance in the Escambray Mountains, where former rebels from the War Against Batista took different sides.

Marcel Proust took issue with this notion and refuted it in a set of essays, Contre Sainte-Beuve (" Against Sainte-Beuve ").

" Though the Quaker establishment took no immediate action, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, was a clear and forceful argument against slavery and initiated the process of banning slavery in the Society of Friends ( 1776 ) and Pennsylvania ( 1780 ).

A few weeks after Carmichael took office, James Meredith was attacked with a shotgun during his solitary " March Against Fear ".

The Socialist Party's first issue of 2010, headlined " Rage Against Unemployment " and written by Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser Sean Figg, who took part in the Jarrow March for Jobs, argues that young people are likely to suffer ' permanent psychological scars ' from unemployment.

In the late-1980s, after an increasing series of highly odorous releases from the Sewage Treatment Plant which served a good portion of Lower Manhattan, a local group formed calling itself GASP ( Greenpointers Against Smell Pollution ) that compelled the city to control the outflows and to plan a vastly expanded facility that took 20 years to build.

The United Front Against Fascism ( UFAF )— founded by the FSP, but also including a broad coalition of the Left, the LGBT community, labor unionists, feminists, people of color, Jews, and civil libertarians — took the lead in mobilizing against neo-Nazis in the Pacific Northwest.

Against this background the government kept Civil Service salaries very low, and so it was probably no surprise that officials in all departments took advantage of their positions to supplement their wages with demands for ' tea money ', ' lucky money ' or substantially larger sums.

At Against All Odds, a rematch took place in a Hardcore Street Fight.

Against Moiraine's advice, Mat took Perrin and Rand to explore the city.

In August 2002 she pleaded guilty to drunk driving and paid $ 1, 000 in fines and court fees, performed 50 hours of community service, took part in a victim's panel organized by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, was placed on probation for one year and had her license suspended for that same period.

In Against the Postivists he took the position of intuitive noetic comprehension, noesis or insight stating consciousness, in being is integral ( Russian term being sobornost ) and has to have both phenomenon ( validated by dianonia ) and noumenon validated intuitively?

Against New Zealand and India in 1980 – 81, Lillee took 37 wickets in six Tests and was the leading bowler in the World Series Cup for the second successive season.

Against the latter, his 7 / 83 and 3 / 44 at the MCG in the first Test took him past the world record for the most Test wickets held by Lance Gibbs.

Against India, he was used as 2nd change bowler & took 3 / 34.

Against South Africa, he took 2 / 29 ( wickets of Hashim Amla and A. B. de Villiers and then followed it up with 70 from 47 balls to win 4-consecutive Man of the Match-es

Against Warwickshire, on his 26th birthday, Verity took 10 for 36 in the second innings, having taken three wickets in the first innings, to give Yorkshire an innings victory.

Against Kent, he returned nine wickets for 12 runs and took 15 wickets in the game, one of seven games in which he captured 10 or more wickets.