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Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.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

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.

To monitor the implementation at national level of the requirements and principles provided in those texts, a monitoring mechanism – the Group of States Against Corruption ( also known as GRECO ) ( French: Groupe d ' Etats contre la corruption ) was created.

He also provided backing vocals on " Operation Rescue ", from Bad Religion's album Against the Grain ( 1990 ).

Lott's book The Bias Against Guns provided evidence that the bans reduced the number of gun shows by over 20 percent.

The group has provided training to Greenpeace, Patagonia, Inc., the California Faculty Association, United Students Against Sweatshops, Students for Bhopal, Student Farmworker Alliance, the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Students for a Free Tibet and Detroit Summer.

Against the advice provided by Sakuma Nobumori, Hiraide Norihide and Takigawa Kazumasa, who had been sent by Nobunaga, and by his own generals, Torii Motohiro, Ogasawara Nagayoshi, Matsudaira Ietada, Honda Tadakatsu and Ishikawa Kazemasa, Ieyasu refused to allow the Takeda army to pass through his territory unhindered, and drew up his forces on a high plain called Mikatagahara, just north of Hamamatsu.

She is a supporter of the Violence Against Women Act, which allowed victims of sexual violence and other sexual crimes to take their cases to federal courts and provided funding for various anti-sexual violence initiatives and programs.

White provided vocals to three songs on the album: " The Rose with the Broken Neck ," " Two Against One " and " The World.

The ECGD has been the subject of criticism by UK-based NGOs ; the Cornerhouse ( see The Corner House ( organisation )) has claimed that the ECGD has in effect provided public subsidy for bribery ; Campaign Against Arms Trade has argued that the ECGD provides excessive levels of support for arms sales ; Jubilee Debt Campaign has argued that the cancellation of debts owed to the ECGD should not be counted towards UK Official Development Assistance figures ; World Wide Fund for Nature argues that excessive greenhouse gases are emitted from ECGD-supported projects and that this is inconsistent with wider UK environmental policy.

He was the cover artist for the AD & D Player Character Record Sheets, Against the Giants, Secret of Bone Hill, the Gamma World book Legion of Gold, and provided the back cover for In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords.

Over the month of February, 20 bands were announced, including Friday and Sunday's second stage headliners ; Slash ( with vocals provided by Myles Kennedy ) and Rise Against respectively.

They conceived of medicine as self-defense, and provided medical support to the American Indian Movement ( AIM ), Vietnam Veterans Against the War ( VVAW ), Young Lords Party, Black Panther Party, and other revolutionary formations of the 1960s and 1970s.

Their single " Celebration Guns " is the title song for the television series ZOS: Zone of Separation and was provided for free as part of a collaboration with Moms Against Climate Change.

Later, universal history provided an influential lens on the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire in such works as Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, Augustine's City of God, and Orosius ' History Against the Pagans.

Against this background of active involvement in industrial relations, social work and local, state and national politics, the ideological base provided by Mahatma Gandhi and the feminist seeds planted by Anasuya Sarabhai led to the creation by the TLA of their Women's Wing in 1954.

Under Offenses Against Property ( Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance 1979 ), the punishment of imprisonment or fine, or both, as provided in the existing Pakistan Penal Code for theft, was substituted by the amputation of the right hand of the offender from the joint of the wrist by a surgeon.

Against a backdrop of extraordinary development of new technologies, industrialization and urbanism, Geddes witnessed the substantial social consequences of crime, illness and poverty that developed as a result of modernization.