against

Example Sentences

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He matched the cost of several social services against the $25 billion estimated to be spent on the war through the end of this week and the $200-billion new request.

From Los Angeles Times

Even knowing they must cooperate with the very people they’re competing against, as alliances form and fracture, each day grows more fraught.

From Los Angeles Times

Dunlap said he never moved forward with trying to file a case against DTLA.

From Los Angeles Times

Virgin Islands and 12 cities and counties filed a lawsuit against the EPA, joining nearly 20 other organizations.

From Salon

It brought an administrative civil enforcement case against Gil and levied a fine.

From Slate