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Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.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

Torture, according to the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture ( an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly ) is:

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

Against Maurice's complaints, the States General under Johan van Oldenbarneveldt had ordered Maurice to take the army, march south along the coast and take the pirate nest of Dunkirk.

In trying to defend his fight against the investigation, Rader wrote the 1980 self-exculpatory polemic " Against the Gates of Hell: The Threat to Religious Freedom in America " arguing that his legal fight with the Attorney General was more about religious freedoms rather than about abuse of public trust or fraudulent misappropriation of tithe funds.

* Massachusetts General Laws-Crimes Against Property

White Against Red – The Life of General Anton Denikin gives possibly the definitive account of the intrigues during these early Soviet " wet-ops ".

# The standard reference is Dimitry V. Lehovich, White Against Red-the Life of General Anton Denikin, New York, W. W. Norton, 1974.

*" Against All Odds: The Laotian Freedom Fighters ," by General Vang Pao, Heritage Foundation Lecture # 96, March 19, 1987.

In the Law Commission's Report No. 218 Offenses Against the Person and General Principles ( 1993 ) at pp 106 – 110 ) these defenses are set out ( so far as they relate to defense of property ) as follows:

The United Nations General Recommendation 19 to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women defines sexual harassment of women to include:

During the historic South African General Elections of 1994, he was a member of the delegation sent by the Association of Western European Parliamentarians Against Apartheid to monitor the elections.

Against the backdrop of the oil crisis in the Aegean, Brigadier General Ioannidis arranged, in July 1974, to overthrow Cypriot President Makarios, and proceed to Énosis with Greece.

Against the Polish line the Red Army gathered its Northwest Front led by the young General Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

She subsequently represented similar groups opposed to nuclear waste dumping threatened at Fulbeck in Lincolnshire ( Lincolnshire Against Nuclear Dumping-LAND ) at East Killingholme on Humberside ( HAND ) and at Bradwell ( BAND ) in a lengthy High Court action in 1986, before those plans were abandoned by the Tory government, shortly before the 1987 General Election.

In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 25 ( the anniversary of the murder of the Mirabal sisters ) as the annual date for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in their honor.

On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 25 ( the anniversary of the murder of the Mirabal sisters ) as the annual date for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in commemoration of the sisters.

Plibersek also addressed the 2009 United Nations International Women ’ s Day event, attended by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and announced Australia ’ s formal accession to the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ).

Oscar E. Keller Against the Attorney General of the United States: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, Third and Fourth Sessions on H. Res.

Against this, the British at Thal, under Brigadier General Alexander Eustace, possessed only four battalions.

* Acts Constituting a General ( Transnational ) Danger Considered as Offenses Against the Law of Nations ( for definitions of " barbarity " and " vandalism ")

In an open letter to U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Human Rights Watch asserted that waterboarding can cause the sort of " severe pain " prohibited by 18 USC 2340 ( the implementation in the United States of the United Nations Convention Against Torture ), that the psychological effects can last long after waterboarding ends ( another of the criteria under 18 USC 2340 ), and that uninterrupted waterboarding can ultimately cause death.

It began as a coalition that included the Anti-Nazi League, the National Assembly Against Racism, the Trades Union Congress ( TUC ) and leading British unions such as the Transport and General Workers ' Union ( T & G ) ( now Unite ) and UNISON.