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Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.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

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.

George Roucou, marching to freedom, with his wife Kay and Workers Against Racism organiser Charles LongfordThe RCP's ' Workers Against Racism ' campaign fought many deportation threats, like George Roucou's, on the grounds that British immigration law was racist.

It starred Munnery as ' The League Against Tedium ', a character who drove around the United Kingdom in an adapted transit van, preaching to the masses with the help of an opera singer ( Lori Lixenberg ), a sedated vampire ( Richard Thomas ), and a monkey ( Munnery's wife Janet ).

Against her mother's wishes, though, Claude did try to warn her younger sister Marguerite de Valois of the danger she would face as the new wife of the Huguenot King of Navarre on the night of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

His wife, F. Carolyn Graglia, is an author who has written a book critical of feminism entitled Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism.

; More Spinned Against: ( which first appeared in Argosy ), tells of how the legendary Arachne finds herself in the clutches of a spider-obsessed collector and of the deal she makes with the collector's wife Lydia.

Against the south wall of the church is an elaborate pedimented arch which is a memorial to Sir Andrew Barclay Walker and his wife.

) Wren's wife Ellen Mahon appears as " Nellie ", and there is space in the novel given to three of his children-his violinist daughter Margaret, his son John Jr., and another daughter who became a Communist bore similarities with Wren's radical daughter Mary who was an active member of the communist front organisation the Movement Against War and Fascism.

Against this background are the main characters, who struggle between their personal and social identities (" tired of playing the role of Big Jim's wife ").

Against the south wall of the church, sightly to the west of the south entrance, Sir John Spencer and his wife, 1609.

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.

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.

* French, David, Raising Churchill ’ s Army – The British Army And The War Against Germany 1919 – 1945, Oxford University Press, 2000

Bergerac wrote Contre Soucidas ( an anagram of his enemy's name ) and Contre un ingrat (" Against an Ingrate "), while D ’ Assoucy counterattacked with Le Combat de Cyrano de Bergerac avec le singe de Brioché, au bout du Pont-Neuf.

Italy ’ s Fight Against Organized Crime, London: MacMillan Press ISBN 0-333-80158-X

Byzantium ’ s Last Imperial Offensive in Asia Minor: The Documentary Evidence for and Hagiographical Lore About John III Ducas Vatatzes ’ Crusade Against the Turks, 1222 or 1225 to 1231.

Enyo was involved in the war of the Seven Against Thebes and Dionysus ’ s war with the Indians as well.

Hiram was succeeded as king of Tyre by his son Baal-Eser I. Hiram is also mentioned in the writings of Menander of Ephesus, as preserved in Josephus ’ s Against Apion, where some additional information is given that is not found in the Bible.

Pygmalion ’ s dates are derived from Josephus ’ s Against Apion i. 18, where Josephus quotes the Phoenician historian Menander as follows:

Primary information related to Ithobaal comes from Josephus ’ s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i. 18.

Against the strong resistance of many large national builders who perceived Prince George ’ s County as a price-sensitive retreat for urban African Americans who neither wanted nor could afford upscale amenities for their homes, Gary S. Lachman contractually required features like two-car garages, brick, and elaborate landscaping from builders who purchased lots in this community.

New Orleans historian Keith Weldon Medley, author of We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson, The Fight Against Legal Segregation, said the words in Justice Harlan's " Great Dissent " originated with papers filed with the court by " The Citizen ’ s Committee.

Ratramnus ’ defense of Western theology and practice in his Against the Objections of the Greeks who Slandered the Roman Church, is largely occupied with proving the filioque, although the final section of the work deals with other disagreements, such as the monastic tonsure and priestly celibacy.

The live was followed up by a collaboration Act Against AIDS charity single with fellow Japanese artist Kuwata Keisuke titled ‘ Kiseki no hoshi ’ and released on January 23, 1995.

On May 7, 2008: Against the advice of the government's own commissioned report, the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced the government ’ s intention to once again reclassify cannabis as a class B drug.

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

Women ’ s suffrage is explicitly stated as a right under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted by the United Nations in 1979.

# Politicide: Sharon ’ s War Against the Palestinians.

According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.

Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling uses the term in his book Politicide: Sharon ’ s War Against the Palestinians and in various articles.

Golding was also very interested in historical works and translated many, such as, Leonardo Bruni ’ s History of the War Against the Goths, Froissart ’ s Chronicles in Sleidan ’ s epitome, and Aesop ’ s fables.