How to Use as against in a Sentence

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• But the Colts have a tendency to play their best in games where they are counted out, such as against Arizona last year.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
• The treatment is effective against fleas in all life stages, as well as against several types of ticks.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 13 Feb. 2023
• This is helpful, because that gentleman and his equipment are easy to overlook as against the basilica’s mighty bulk.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• This is helpful, because that gentleman and his equipment are easy to overlook as against the basilica’s mighty bulk.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Boutros considered those action as against Ohio’s Sunshine Law.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• The vaccines do work against the variants, but not quite as well as against the original version of the coronavirus, suggesting that people may need to get booster shots, Ranney said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• The cleric, who positions himself as against both Iran and the United States, is immensely popular.
  — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 30 July 2022
• Only 5 percent of Republicans approve of how Biden handled that, as against 71 percent of Democrats.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• Local buyers are bidding against one another, as well as against investors.
  — Wsj Noted., WSJ, 21 May 2021
• This is higher than the four buyouts that happened during the same period last year, and more focused on consumer-facing ed-tech, as against business-to-business online training firms last year.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 2 Sep. 2020
• Privacy claims have been made against these as well as against dress and hair codes for schoolchildren and laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets; claims may one day be expected over the right to use a car without a seat belt.
  — Paul Bender, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• But the incident suggested a possible post-Dobbs future, in which states pursue criminal charges against people who have abortions as well as against those who provide them.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2022
• In the weeks that followed, more and more mud would be slung against the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as against scientists who held alternative policy views, and favored more and stronger restrictions.
  — Vinay Prasad, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
• Next, the researchers put their system to the test against an experienced surgeon who had performed more than 900 surgeries, as well as against nine volunteers with no surgical experience.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Feb. 2023
• In any international conflict where there is a debate over the value of conciliation as against the use of force, the same name recurs over and again with monotonous inevitability.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2022
• Narrowing the field of potential investments for reasons that are (in whole or in part) non-financial must increase the chance of underperformance as against a strategy free of such restrictions.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• Speaking after a defense council meeting, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the anti-smuggling office will be redesigned next year to work in the same way as against drug traffickers.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2021
• Winona Ryder’s options so much as against the movie, sensing a cynical attempt to capture the youth market, a major studio romanticizing indie credibility.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• Some 30 percent of Europeans report having no savings whatsoever, as against 16 percent of Americans.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Apr. 2022
• Administrators have cited her initial public complaints about the ban as against school policy, which apparently prevents teachers from saying anything about administrators mysteriously censoring kids from singing about love and hope.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024