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Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.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

Marshall concluded in his book, Men Against Fire, ( 1946, 1978 ), that " only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen in World War II fired their weapons at an exposed enemy soldier ".

* Racing Against the Odds: Wendell Scott, African American Stock Car Champion, 2009, Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, ISBN 0-7614-5465-9

* New York Times Magazine profile, " Against Irony " by Marshall Sella, September 5, 1999.

Against the Oakland Raiders a week later, Welker became the first player in Patriots history, and the eighth in NFL history, to have back-to-back 100-reception seasons ; the previous player to do it was his teammate Randy Moss, while he was a Viking, in 2002 and 2003, and Brandon Marshall accomplished the feat in the same seasons as Welker.

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 the objections of many within the industry, Melnick hired Peckinpah and gave him free rein.

Against Russia Selim was less fortunate, and the first encounter between the Ottoman Empire and her future northern rival gave presage of disaster to come.

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.

Nevertheless one minister, Noel Browne, gave a different account in his autobiography, Against the Tide.

Jerome, referred in Against Jovinianus to marriage prohibition for priests when he argued that Peter and the other apostles had been married, but had married before they were called and subsequently gave up their marital relations.

In a 5-4 decision, United States v. Morrison invalidated the section of the Violence Against Women Act ( VAWA ) of 1994 that gave victims of gender-motivated violence the right to sue their attackers in federal court, although program funding remains unaffected.

In his memoir, " Against All Enemies ", Clarke wrote that when he first briefed Rice on Al-Qaeda, in a January 2001 meeting, " her facial expression gave me the impression she had never heard the term before.

After an adverse ruling by the Independent Commission Against Corruption against Greiner for offering former minister Terry Metherell a patronage job, Windsor and the other three independents gave Greiner an ultimatum to resign or face a no-confidence motion in Parliament, and Greiner resigned.

In 1983, Stevie Wonder, at the height of his popularity, gave the programme a musical exclusive when he agreed to let a World in Action crew record him performing an unreleased song, written to help the Democratic politician Jesse Jackson's electioneering, for The Race Against Reagan.

Against Ginepri, having already saved five match points, Coria was serving to take the match into a fifth set tiebreaker, when two double faults in a row from deuce gave Ginepri the win.

Critic Corey Apar of Allmusic gave Against Me!

He wrote occasional articles and gave interviews for Christianity Today, and for many years he wrote a regular column “ Faith Matters ” for The Christian Century ( the collection of these is published as Against the Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Great Enmities ).

Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gave a speech in the Senate entitled " The Crime Against Kansas.

Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B -, saying: " Against many odds, Ever After comes up with a good one.

Pope John Paul II gave access to some formerly secret Vatican archives to scholars, one of whom, David Kertzer, used information thus obtained in his book The Popes Against the Jews.

Against a mostly professional attack Caesar made 67 and 46 as Godalming scored 161 and 192 for 5 and dismissed Surrey for 158 before Surrey " gave up ".

Pingree typically receives moderate to low approval ratings from socially and economically conservative groups such as the American Family Association and Citizens Against Government Waste, who in 2009 gave Pingree ratings of 0 % and 1 % respectively.

Additionally, WSOU gave some of the first airtime to many commercial successes-Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Incubus, System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine and Korn.

( On the other hand, Irenaeus in Against Heresies gave a time span of eighteen months, and Irenaeus was certainly familiar with the work.

Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly gave the video a B writing " Armchair headbangers rejoice: This concert tape of American and European dates ( with all of Rage Against the Machine's videos appended ) lets you experience RATM's galvanic rap-metal fusion without suffering the indignities of a mosh pit.

TRB made leaflets and fliers about their political views and sent them to everyone who attended their gigs, they gave away badges and made up T shirts emblazoned with the band's logo and they appeared regularly at Rock Against Racism concerts.

Lucheni's assassination of Elisabeth gave rise to the International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists held from November 24 to December 21, 1898.

In 2001, the DVD edition of the documentary includes a crew audio commentary, a second audio commentary with the late Russo, an interview Russo gave in 1990, a link to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation website, and some deleted interviews put together into a second documentary titled Rescued from the Closet.