against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

against the limitless background of sky and wasteland it was easy to confirm her analysis.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

He knew now what he was up against.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

Blue Throat was slumped with his back against the bar, elbows supporting his massive frame.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.

The man was leaning against the rock.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

Likewise, the vision, which appeared within a circular vignette or matte, was similarly superimposed over a black area in the backdrop to the scene, rather than over a part of the set with detail in it, so that nothing appeared through the image, which seemed quite solid.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

In stark contrast to earlier opulence, William Poel's 1881 production of the Q1 text was an early attempt at reconstructing the Elizabethan theatre's austerity ; his only backdrop was a set of red curtains.

Sartre and his lifelong companion, de Beauvoir, existed, in her words, where " the world about us was a mere backdrop against which our private lives were played out " ( de Beauvoir 1958: 339 ).

Italian writer Luigi Malerba used the confusion among the leaders of the Catholic Church, which was created by Adrian's unexpected election, as a backdrop for his 1995 novel, Le maschere ( The Masks ), about the struggle between two Roman cardinals for a well-endowed church office.

The 1940 presidential campaign was conducted against the backdrop of World War II.

The story was moved to Vietnam and Thailand and set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon, but the central themes are largely unchanged.

It was known as the Hero's Cauldron and was in the backdrop of every awards ceremony.

Numan's look for the album artwork and tour was a Mad Max-influenced black leather costume against a post-apocalyptic backdrop, but this latest image change was scorned by the music press.

For Star Trek: The Next Generation, an ultraviolet light matting process was proposed by Don Lee of CIS and developed by Gary Hutzel and the staff of Image G. This involved a fluorescent orange backdrop which made it easier to generate a holdout matte, thus allowing the effects team to produce effects in a quarter of the time needed for other methods.

Blue was used as a backdrop before digital keying became commonplace because it was necessary for the optical process, but it needed more illumination than green.

Constantine's triumphal arch was carefully positioned to align with the colossal statue of Sol by the Colosseum, so that Sol formed the dominant backdrop when seen from the direction of the main approach towards the arch.

Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.

The grunge scene was the backdrop in the 1992 Cameron Crowe film Singles.

He was shown against a backdrop of the skyline of London as it would have appeared in 1711 with St Paul's towering above the other city buildings.

Poel was influenced by a performance of King Lear directed by Jocza Savits at the Hoftheater in Munich in 1890, set on an apron stage with a three-tier Globe-like reconstruction theatre as its backdrop.

However, it served as a backdrop for a renewed interest in the evolution of development after the modern evolutionary synthesis was established ( roughly 1936 to 1947 ).

Preparations for the trip had begun some years before, but with his health rapidly deteriorating, the Tsar had ordered that the process be hurried, and it was with this backdrop that Bering ( with his knowledge of both the Indian Ocean and the eastern seaboard of North America, good personal skills and experience in transporting goods ) was selected ahead of the experienced cartographer K. P. von Verd.

She is a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and in 1991 was awarded the CSICOP Distinguished Skeptic Award .< ref > A Who's Who of Media Skeptics: Skeptics or Dogmatists ?.

" The initial acronym, " CSICP " was difficult to pronounce and so was changed to " CSICOP.

Kurtz was successful in his aims ; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, B. F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP.

Rawlins was shortly ejected from CSICOP at an unannounced and still obscure " election ".

About a year later there was a dispute regarding the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ): Truzzi wanted to include proponents of paranormal ideas in the group and the magazine.

He was a co-founder of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and contributed articles to their journal, The Skeptical Inquirer.

Also, plans were made to discredit the skeptical organization CSICOP by spreading rumors that it was a front for the CIA, and a project called " Operation Freakout " which aimed at ruining the life of Paulette Cooper, author of an early book critical of the movement, The Scandal of Scientology.

In 1986 when members of CSICOP reported that Popoff was using a radio to receive messages, Popoff denied it and said the messages came from God.

The council was founded by Dr. Paul Kurtz, who also founded CSICOP ( now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and the Center for Inquiry.

He also was the convener of Indian CSICOP, a Tamil Nadu based skeptic group which is an affiliate of CSICOP.

He was also the only Indian Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP International ), set up by Paul Kurtz in the USA.

Marcello Truzzi ( September 6, 1935 – February 2, 2003 ) was a professor of sociology at New College of Florida and later at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and director for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research.

Truzzi was an investigator of various protosciences and pseudosciences and, as fellow CSICOP cofounder Paul Kurtz dubbed him, " the skeptic's skeptic.

Truzzi founded the skeptical journal Explorations and was invited to be a founding member of the skeptic organization CSICOP as its co-chairman with Paul Kurtz.

Truzzi's journal became the official journal of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and was renamed The Zetetic (" zetetic " is another name for " skeptic ").

After examining the case 48 years after the event, Joe Nickell of the paranormal investigation group Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ), then known as CSICOP, concluded in 2000 that the bright light in the sky reported by the witnesses on September 12 was most likely a meteor, that the pulsating red light was likely an aircraft navigation / hazard beacon, and that the creature described by witnesses closely resembled an owl.