set against
Example Sentences
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"That's the only thing I can set against the wretched bishop image."
From BBC
An expansive depiction of a family of well-to-do Viennese Jews, beginning at the turn of the 20th century and concluding in 1955, when its few surviving members gather, the play is a studied, mournful but unsparingly unsentimental drama that illuminated in sharp detail the complex history of the family set against the churning tides of history.
The shows include meandering political and philosophical debates, set against the messy domestic lives of a group of 19th-century Russian intellectuals.
The financial hub is famous for its dramatic skyline of sky scrapers set against a picturesque harbour, many of which are home to residents as well as as banks and commercial offices.
From Barron's
The saga about an early 1900s logger set against the developing Pacific Northwest shows how things always change, even when you don’t want them to.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
