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 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.

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.

Against the Oxford theory are several references to Shakespeare, later than 1604, which imply that the author was then still alive.

Torture still occurs in liberal democracies despite several international treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Convention Against Torture making torture illegal.

Against the backdrop of the Asian financial crisis ( and catastrophic domestic floods ) mainland China's GDP still grew by 7. 9 % in the first nine months of 2002, beating the government's 7 % target despite a global economic slowdown.

The second album, Gold Against the Soul, was released to mixed reviews but still performed well, reaching number eight in the UK album chart and displayed a more grungy sound.

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.

In the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, school master Dr. Strong quotes from Watts ' " Against Idleness and Mischief ": " Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do.

Following the vote by the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, in 2007 in favour of bills to ban lesbian and gay pride parades in Jerusalem, the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism criticised Tatchell saying " Peter Tatchell and others who have distinguished themselves by the speed of their quite proper defence of lesbian and gay rights when these have been attacked by Black, Arab, Muslim forces or regimes have still refused to condemn with equal force the official attacks on lesbian and gay rights by the highest institutions of the State of Israel.

The tradition of public speaking in the park continued until well after the Second World War, and was still later reflected in politically oriented rock concerts, such as those held by Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League in the 1970s and 1980s.

Dinarchus wrote, for one or more of these prosecutors, the three speeches which are still extant: Against Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton, and Against Philocles.

Against the backdrop of the Asian financial crisis and the catastrophic 1998 Yangtze River Floods, mainland China's GDP still grew by 7. 9 % in the first nine months of 2002, beating the government's 7 % target despite a global economic slowdown.

Against her better judgment, she decided to free Komand ' r, who was still absorbing energy.

Against old foes in the BMW 635 CSi and Volvo 240T, as well as newer Group A cars such as the Holden VK Commodore SS Group A and the turbocharged Nissan Skyline RS DR30, Walkinshaw qualified his ' old ' XJS on pole, proving how competitive the car could still be in Touring car racing.

Against this view, Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies 3. 12 section 12 ridiculed those who think they are wiser than the Apostles because they were still under Jewish influence.

In Episode # 410 ( Hercules Against the Moon Men ), Tom and Crow proved able to travel at least away from the theater doors while still on the non-theater side of the doors and corridor ( i. e. at an angle to the viewer's left and forward, out of range of the camera ).

The tablets contain a number of important terms previously unattested in Linear B, such as ra-ke-da-mi-ni-jo / Lakedaimnijos / " a man from Lacedaemonia ( Sparta )", or ma-ka / Mā Gā / " Mother Gaia " ( a goddess still revered in Thebes in the 5th century BC, as reported e. g. in Aeschylus ' Seven Against Thebes ).

As of the end of the 2009 AFL season, Ross still holds the record for the most Free Kicks Against in a single AFL game.

Against her better judgment she decided to free Komand ' r, who was still absorbing energy.

However, although the station now programs its current hits from the Hot AC rather than Mainstream AC chart, the station still plays a sprinkling of ' 80s hits ( including ballads such as Phil Collins ' Against All Odds ( Take a Look at Me Now ), which puts the station on the line between mainstream and hot AC.

Their third single, " Up Against the Wall ", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and their debut album, Power In The Darkness ( 1978 ), is still widely admired

The New York Times Roberta Smith said of the new building, " Against all odds, the museum that opens to the public on Saturday is still very much the old Barnes, only better.