Against this backdrop, American exporters are finding quite favorable overseas markets for their products and U. S. consumers are responding to their general housing slowdown by slowing their spending.

Against their counsel, Mehmed continued to fight.

St. Jerome, in his letter Against Jovinianus, discusses how people come to their present condition as a result of their heritage, and then lists several examples of peoples and their customs.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

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.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

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.

The participants of the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa in March 2001, condemned discrimination due to the caste system, and tried to pass a resolution declaring that caste as a basis for the segregation and oppression of peoples in terms of their descent and occupation is a form of apartheid.

A 2007 poll commissioned by the Center Against Racism ( 2008 ) found a worsening of Jewish citizens ' perceptions of their Arab counterparts: For instance, 75 % of Israeli Jews would not agree to live in a building with Arab residents, 60 % would not accept any Arab visitors at their homes, 40 % believed that Arabs should be stripped of their right to vote, and 59 % believe that the culture of Arabs is primitive.

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

In his Prescription Against Heretics, he explicitly challenges heretics to produce evidence of the apostolic succession of their communities.

The band has stated that their primary influences include Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Sepultura, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Helmet, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, Pink Floyd, Primus, Tool, Ministry, Mr. Bungle, Biohazard, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, and Jane's Addiction.

Edmond de Goncourt modeled his acrobat-mimes in his The Zemganno Brothers ( 1879 ) upon them ; J .- K. Huysmans ( whose Against Nature would become Dorian Gray's bible ) and his friend Léon Hennique wrote their pantomime Skeptical Pierrot ( 1881 ) after seeing them perform at the Folies Bergère.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

In the US, groups like Black Mask ( later Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers ), The Weathermen, and the Rebel Worker group also explicitly employed their ideas.

* Formed since 1996, the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs of Cape Town, South Africa fights drugs and gangsterism in their region.

* " California, a song by deathcore band Winds of Plague from their 2011 album Against the World

Against this are cited sources which are said to prove that early-19th-century Viennese string players like Franz Clement and Joseph Mayseder were noted for their tasteful use of vibrato.

* The series was continued by Robin Wayne Bailey in Swords Against the Shadowland ( novel 1998 ).

Against the interdict pronounced on his lands, the preachers condemned the Pope and continued to minister the sacraments and grant absolutions.

Families Against Cancer and Toxics ( FACT ) was formed in Southern Arizona in 2003 when parents of children with cancer gathered to encourage continued investigation into the possible causes of childhood leukemia.

Bad Religion's hardcore punk style continued with their next album, Against the Grain, which was released in 1990.

Against these detractions, Renault's chairman, Georges Besse, continued to champion the French firm's future in the North American market ; pointing to the company's completion of the newest and most-advanced automotive assembly plant in North America, then known as Bramalea Assembly, as well as the recent introduction of the thoroughly modern, fuel-injected 4. 0 L and 2. 5 L engines.

After the success of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959, counter-revolutionary groups grew, particularly in the Escambray Mountains, where the War Against the Bandits guerrilla war continued sporadically until 1965.

Mentoring Crooked I, he began work on Against tha Grain ; his verbal feud with his former partners continued from 2002 to 2005.

The tradition of public speaking in the park continued until well after the Second World War, and was still later reflected in politically oriented rock concerts, such as those held by Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League in the 1970s and 1980s.

But he has continued to be a member of the project " Against forgetting, in favour of democracy ", which tries to spread basic democratic values, as a contrast to the dictatorships of the Nazis and of the SED.

Against such a background, Muir ’ s continued presence in Edinburgh was regarded as a serious threat to public order, and he was removed to an armed cutter, the Royal George, at Leith Roads.

Steely Dan continued touring, and their work on new material resulted in their first studio album in two decades, Two Against Nature, released in 2000.

Protests continued on 24 November 2010 with the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts ( NCAFC ) organising a mass national walk out of education and protest.

With Hiltz and Blue, Born Against continued its extensive touring, including a trip to Europe.

He continued his campaigning work into later life, founding Men Against Genital Mutilation of Girls ( MAGMOG ) in 1992, and publishing his autobiography, Before I Die Again, referring to his interest in reincarnation, the same year.

In the 1990s, Los Angeles ' contribution to rock music continued with acclaimed artists such as Beck, Sublime of Long Beach, Tool, System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine.

Against this backdrop, Asahi Optical continued its use of 42 mm diameter, Universal M42 screw lens mount ( often called the Pentax screw mount ).

Against the desires of many engineers and technical designers, the Schmeisser brothers continued to enforce patent royalties and manage company funds.

After Final Resolution, and with Payton Banks by his side, Roode continued his feud with Booker T at Against All Odds, where the two faced off in a singles match.

Josephus, citing Menander, says that “ in the seventh year of reign, his sister fled away from him, and built the city of Carthage in Libya ” ( Against Apion i: 18 ).

Against them stood Greenfield's government, UFA president Henry Wise Wood ( whom Bevington was challenging for re-election ), and radical Labour Member of Parliament William Irvine.

Kurien, working selflessly among the Party Ranks for the Growth & Against the Suppression of the Oppressed & Down-Trodden, after sacrificing his Royal & rather Luxurious Life in his highy influential Patriachal Family, thus, incurring the wrath of many orthodox Nair & other upper-caste families of the time, who always stood for the Monarch & the Powerful in order to sustain their own survival, influence & power in the society.

SADD originally stood for Students against Driving Drunk, but in 1997, it became Students Against Destructive Decisions and expanded its scope beyond promoting alcohol temperance.

Against the Soviet forces, a few tired German regiments without any reserve troops stood at their positions, ploughed up by the Soviet artillery.

Against the wishes of many of his constituents, McGee stood on principle and fought hard for positions unpopular in Wyoming in support of gas rationing and the 55-mile per hour speed limit in the era of the first Arab oil embargoes.

In 2001, a Mothers Against Drunk Driving ( MADD ) chapter conducted a small unscientific study in Massachusetts, in which teens stood in front of 15 stores and asked 100 adults apparently over the age of 21 to buy them alcohol.