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!!

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

Alexander was educated at Hawtreys and Harrow School, there participating as the 11th batsman in the sensational Fowler's Match against Eton College in 1910.

The term was later exported to France ( H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage ).

Proceeding considerably to the north from Fowler's Bay the country was found to be very dry.

Since 1845, Fowler's solution was a leukemia treatment.

Still, into the late 1950s, Fowler's solution — also termed liquor potassii arenitis, Kali arsenicosum, or Kali arseniatum — was prescribed in the United States for a wide range of diseases, including malaria, chorea, and syphilis.

An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler's neo-classical building was erected in 1830 to cover and help organise the market.

George Johann Scharf's illustration of the market before Fowler's hall was built in 1830

He said " In those days, arsenic was quite a common tonic, usually given in the form of a solution ( Fowler's Solution )," and suggests this was the cause of the high levels.

Although it was the truth in Fowler's case, the expression later became a smokescreen for politicians who had quit high-profile roles for slightly more dark or controversial reasons.

In his 2010 book At Home, author Bill Bryson suggests that Siddal may have suffered from poisoning, because she was a " devoted swallower " of Fowler's Solution, a so-called complexion improver made from dilute arsenic.

The Word Man, a play about Fowler's life and career by the writer Chris Harrald, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 17 January 2008.

In Fowler's original study, the anatomic dead space was 156 ± 28 ml ( n = 45 males ) or 26 % of their tidal volume.

Rocky decides to flee the farm the next day, leaving behind Fowler's medal and the second half of his poster, showing that Rocky was actually a stunt rooster, only " flying " by being shot out of a cannon.

Matt Weinstock, a Los Angeles newspaper columnist, once remarked that Fowler's chili " was reputed to open eighteen sinus cavities unknown to the medical profession.

Fowler's first involvement with the Liverpool first team came on 13 January 1993, when he was an unused substitute in an FA Cup third round tie against Bolton Wanderers.

Fowler's partnership with Steve McManaman was largely described as the reason why Liverpool had become the club known for being the most potent attacking force in England at the time, and Fowler was renowned for scoring goals of all varieties, from every angle and distance, with McManaman describing him as the " greatest goalscorer of all time.

Stan Collymore, Fowler's strike partner from 1995 to 1997, said in his autobiography that Fowler was the best player he has ever played alongside.

Fowler's performance in the 1997 – 98 football season was marred by a knee ligament injury that kept him out of action for half the season and caused him to miss the 1998 World Cup.

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.

The sampling program was instituted before the principles of probability sampling were widely recognized in population studies.

This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

Mr. Skyros was not a man who thought very much about moral principles ; ;

It was an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy.

Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

While Kierkegaard's feeling of angst is fear of actual responsibility to God, in modern use, angst was broadened by the later existentialists to include general frustration associated with the conflict between actual responsibilities to self, one's principles, and others ( possibly including God ).

Although he was not an innovator, he would not follow the absolute letter of the law ; rather he was driven by concerns over humanity and equality, and introduced into Roman law many important new principles based upon this notion.

Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger – Nuttall law.

The imperial court was displeased with the religious principles of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor.

It followed from the principles on which this scale was constructed that its zero was placed at − 273. 15 ° C, at almost precisely the same point as the zero of the air-thermometer.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.