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 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of Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.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 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, 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.

Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1. 5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

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.

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.

Against lay investiture they won only a limited success, and one that seemed less impressive as the years passed.

Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.

Against the Gnostics, who said that they possessed a secret oral tradition from Jesus himself, Irenaeus maintained that the bishops in different cities are known as far back as the Apostles — and none of them was a Gnostic — and that the bishops provided the only safe guide to the interpretation of Scripture.

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

A four gospel canon ( the Tetramorph ) was asserted by Irenaeus, who refers to it directly in his polemic Against the Heresies, " It is not possible that the gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are.

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.

music, they also developed a separate genre that was more in line with their politics: Rock Against Communism ( RAC ).

Against common belief that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector, they showed that, smuggling might not enhance social welfare though it may divert resources from government to private sector.

Against all odds, they win 5 – 3.

* May 8 – Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.

In September 2008, APA ’ s members passed a resolution stating that psychologists may not work in settings where “ persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law ( e. g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions ) or the U. S. Constitution ( where appropriate ), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights .” The resolution became official APA policy in February 2009.

Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, the World Organization Against Torture, and Association for the Prevention of Torture work actively to stop the use of torture throughout the world and publish reports on any activities they consider to be torture.

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.

* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.

After the ban on fox hunting, hunts say that they follow artificially laid trails, although the League Against Cruel Sports has alleged widespread law breaking.

Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as " If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me " by The Bellamy Brothers, which is based on an old Groucho Marx quote, where the person being talked to is asked, by one interpretation if they would be offended, and by the other, if they would press their body against the person doing the talking.

In short, the alien invaders win and occupy the Earth or human civilization or they simply try to terraform Earth to make it livable as in The War Against the Chtorr ( a more accurate term for this would be " xenoform "), at least until a human resistance movement overthrows the aliens and / or their puppet governments.

When the Argives ( of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes or Statius ' Thebaid ) marched against Thebes, they met Hypsipyle and made her show them a fountain where they could get water.

Against the revolution, they put the Bible: instead of liberty, it favoured divine providence, instead of equality it favoured hierarchy and instead of brotherhood it favoured sovereignty in its own circle.

Following the 1967 Six-Day War, Shahak disavowed his affiliation with the League Against Religious Coercion, stating they were " fake liberals " who used liberal principles to fight religious influence in Israeli society, but failed to apply them to Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.