Against weaker players whose intended strokes are obvious, an experienced player may move before the shuttlecock has been hit, anticipating the stroke to gain an advantage.

Against a player who doesn't understand the concept of a sacrifice, the expert simply has to make the correct number of sacrifices to encourage the opponent to hand him the first chain long enough to ensure a win.

Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Drought in the Sahel.

In Against the Fall of Night the human race has mysteriously regressed after a full billion years of civilization.

He has appeared as a featured artist on many other songs and albums, having collaborated with artists such as Janet Jackson, Kool Moe Dee, The Dope Poet Society, Run-DMC, Ice Cube, Rage Against The Machine, Anthrax, John Mellencamp and many others.

Each group has a title — Carmina Nisibena, On Faith, On Paradise, On Virginity, Against Heresies — but some of these titles do not do justice to the entirety of the collection ( for instance, only the first half of the Carmina Nisibena is about Nisibis ).

Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab

Against this, Robinson points out that all the synoptics are agreed that, when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem in the week before his death, he already has a number of followers and disciples in the city, notably Joseph of Arimathea, and the unnamed landlord of the upper room, who knows Jesus as ' the Master '.

Against this John Robinson notes the numerous instances in the Synoptic account of Jesus ' final days in Jerusalem, when it is implied that he has been there before.

Hezbollah has a military branch known as Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (" The Islamic Resistance ") and is the possible sponsor of a number of lesser-known militant groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself, including the Organization of the Oppressed, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, the Organization of Right Against Wrong, and Followers of the Prophet Muhammad.

Within anarchism, this subject has been treated extensively by Rudolf Rocker in Nationalism and Culture and by the works of Fredy Perlman, such as Against His-Story, Against Leviathan and " The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism ".

Against the weight of historical evidence to the contrary, the question remains as to why the Pope Joan story has been popular and widely believed.

The declaration has served as the foundation for two binding UN human rights covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and many more.

Against all expectation, Grace produced in 1895 a season that has been called his " Indian Summer ".

Since the reestablishment of Estonian independence the Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity has been established.

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.

Torture is also prohibited by the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which has been ratified by 147 countries.

In March 2011, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has said that he will not allow city funding for the 2011 Toronto Pride Parade if organizers allow the controversial anti-Israel group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid ( QuAIA ) march again this year.

While opinion on the early SD vary, it is generally agreed ( including by the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism and Expo ), that the SD has never been a Nazi party, although various " connections " have existed by members.

Since its inception in 1992, Big Day Out has attracted a large range of artists, with headlining acts including Nirvana, Blink 182, The Strokes, Muse, Violent Femmes, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Ramones, Soundgarden, Rammstein, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Tool, Neil Young and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

After the ban on fox hunting, hunts say that they follow artificially laid trails, although the League Against Cruel Sports has alleged widespread law breaking.

Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch and the National Council Against Health Fraud has stated that Naturopathy is " simplistic and that its practices are riddled with quackery.

Against my folks' wishes, we'd been seeing each other for short rides in the truck.

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.

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

Rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s including Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Tool, Alice in Chains and Rage Against the Machine have been identified as laying groundwork for the development of nu metal by popularising elements of the genre, such as combining aggressive riffs with pop structures and drawing influence from a variety of genres within and outside of heavy metal.

After a stay of several months, a substitute was found-possibly Gregory's brother Peter, who is known to have been bishop of Sebaste from 381, and Gregory returned home to Nyssa to write books I and II of Against Eunomius.

At least two modern conferences within Hellenic philosophy fields of study have been held in order to address what Plotinus stated in his tract Against the Gnostics and who he was addressing it to, in order to separate and clarify the events and persons involved in the origin of the term " Gnostic ".

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

Against a backdrop of conventional interventions through the state or markets, alternative initiatives have been pioneered to address the problem of food security.

Though Geffen had been substantially a pop-rock label, its absorption of MCA ( and its back catalogues ) led to a more diverse roster ; with former MCA artists such as Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Blink-182, Rise Against, and Common now featured on the label.

Negotiations with England then began, from which Knox was excluded ; in particular his earlier tract The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, although it had been aimed at Mary Tudor, rendered him unacceptable to the female English monarch.

On April 8, 1994, Babes in Toyland played a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence with 7 Year Bitch, and Jack Off Jill in Miami at the Cameo Theater, the same day lead-singer of American grunge rock band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, had been found dead in his Seattle home.

Against this, it has been objected that, although the battle may have prevented large-scale movements, the passage of British-speakers between the two areas seemingly stayed possible, given that a Welsh genealogy appears to record that, in the 7th century, the descendants of kings of Pengwern founded a dynasty in the Glastonbury region.

Against the West Indies in 1992 – 93, Taylor was now opening alongside David Boon with Moody having been dropped.

Against these improved features, the Jubilee Line Extension stations have been heavily criticised for very longwinded and poorly planned ( although expensive to build ) connection facilities with other Underground lines, compared for example to the Victoria line, the previous cross-London line built.

Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell in Towards a New Socialism, Information and Economics: A Critique of Hayek, and Against Mises have argued that the use of computational technology now simplifies economic calculation and allows central planning to be implemented and sustained.

* Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women.

Against the function of the unconscious in both Nietzsche and Spengler, Adorno argued that Freud's notion of the unconscious serves as a " sharp weapon ... against every attempt to create a metaphysics of the instincts and to deify full, organic nature.

The essay Offences Against One's Self, argued for the liberalisation of laws prohibiting homosexual sex.

Against the popular method of drawing analogies in order to reach generalizations, Boas argued in favor of an inductive method.

Against this, Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that a narrative understanding of oneself, of one's capacity as an independent reasoner, one's dependence on others and on the social practices and traditions in which one participates, all tend towards an ultimate good of liberation.

Neoconservative author Michael Ledeen argued in his 2002 book The War Against the Terror Masters that America is a revolutionary nation, undoing traditional societies: " Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad.

A number of earlier scholars have argued for a borrowing from Latin symbola, Against this derivation ( in the case of OE symbel ), P. A.

Against this it can be argued that Lyotard's narrative in The Postmodern Condition declares the decline of only a few defunct " narratives of legitimation " and not of narrative knowledge itself.

However, it has been argued that the story is a much later invention of mediæval Irish historians, inspired by their knowledge of the Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, written by the early 5th century Gallaecian cleric, Paulus Orosius.

Faisal Alam, founder of American Gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha, argued in the magazine Queer that Iran was condemned before the facts were certain, and in 2003 the United Nations Committee Against Torture noted that " from different and reliable sources that there currently is no active policy of prosecution of charges of homosexuality in Iran ".

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.

Against the injustice of Hell, some theists, particularly in the Thomistic tradition, have argued that God's infinite dignity requires that any transgression against him warrants an infinite punishment.

Modern users of the term include George H. Smith in his book Atheism: The Case Against God ( 1980 ), where he argued that divine qualities are inconsistent.

Against the clergymen ’ s assertion that the demonstration was against the law, he argued that not only was civil disobedience justified in the face of unjust laws, but that " one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Against the sculptors, Leonardo argued that the intellectual effort necessary to create an illusion of three-dimensionality made the painters ' art superior to that of the sculptor, who could do so merely by recording appearances.

Against the first assertion, Dion argued that the vast majority of international law experts " believe that the right to declare secession unilaterally does not belong to constituent entities of a democratic country such as Canada.

In 1997, environmental journalist George Monbiot argued that the RCP had undue influence at Channel 4 in an article titled " Marxists found alive in C4 ", after two of its members contributed to the Against Nature television programme, whose director, Martin Durkin is also connected to the group.

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.

Against the intentionalist interpretation, functionalist historians like Martin Broszat argued that the lower officials of the Nazi state had started exterminating people on their own initiative.

Against Tsarist repression, Lenin argued for the necessity of confining membership to people who were professionally trained to combat the Okhrana secret police ; however, at its core, the Bolshevik Party was an exceptionally flexible organisation who pragmatically adapted policy to changing political situations.

In response to the formation of Women Against Pornography in 1979, Willis expressed worries about anti-pornography feminists ' attempts to make feminism into a single-issue movement, and argued that feminists should not issue a blanket condemnation against all pornography and that restrictions on pornography could just as easily be applied to speech that feminists found favorable to themselves.