Sentences with phrase «set against»

«Find a way that helps you still feel valuable, but connected to others rather than set against them in a competitive way.»
Those highlights are set against a backdrop of billions of faint stars and galaxies.
Statements by Smith that such reactions would be rarely detected in safety assessments should be set against the knowledge that the particular protein under study is a relatively abundant protein (allergens are often highly abundant proteins in a plant that causes allergy) that shares some similarity with allergens, and researchers were able to discontinue the research.
When a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that the theory rarely recovers.»
The Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet.
People struggle to prioritise such risks when set against everyday concerns that are much more real and pressing, like poverty, hunger, air and water pollution, and urban congestion.
In the 2020s for instance, numbers produced from the various scenarios worked out to a mean increase of about 20 percent in deaths due to heat, set against a mean decrease of about 12 percent in deaths due to cold.
The brain signals at that stage are quite complex, set against noise that is difficult to dampen.
The quarters are cramped, but the view is grand: The blue waters of Penn Cove on Washington state's Whidbey Island are set against rolling bluffs and snow - capped mountains.
This has to be set against an expected lottery income for charities of # 92 million a year, a net loss of # 138 million.
The church was so set against this idea that Galileo was called before the Inquisition and forced to recant his belief that Copernicus was right.
«Set against this are the empirically grounded assessments of the actual economic benefits of migration and the potential benefits of relaxation of limitations on it,» the report states.
Set against the potential gains, the carbon emitted by a few polluting runs is a small price to pay.
Our day ends at Friday Harbor: a quaint seaside village filled with shops and restaurants, set against a backdrop of gorgeous coastal scenery.
«Conservatives are mostly suspicious and some of them even dead - set against the opening of Iran towards the West.»
Grandin sets out to portray the mental and emotional character of animals and its resemblance to that of autistic people — all of it set against the familiar backdrop of normal human intelligence and behavior.
The paper where he comes up with this, which was a 1931 paper, which is an absolutely sublime piece of work — I might say, set against, the most terrible domestic [period]; his parents throwing things at each other, dreadful domestic turmoil back in Bristol — but out of this tragedy that was his private life came this foreseeing of the whole subject of antimatter, which is why Heisenberg praised it so highly.
«The old media spread discord and put a message in the woman's head that she is set against the man, and that influences her behavior in the household.
Some lawmakers are dead - set against the plan.
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who like his Democratic colleagues is dead - set against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, says he has been bombarded with constituent calls and emails in recent days.The overwhelming majority of messages — 1,098 as of...
People who know me closely, including my teachers and lecturers, know that I have throughout my life stood for the principles I believe in and in my own conscience and it is strange that Ayine, whose family has benefitted from my upright character, insults me because the President has set him against me.
But set against that level of ingrained arrogance, it is — heartbreakingly — a drop in the ocean.
The New York Post's Fred Dicker then took the temperature of the three gubernatorial hopefuls and found that Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino are dead set against it, but Andrew Cuomo came out with full - throated support.
So, while these are hypothetical questions that need to be taken with a pinch of salt, it does suggest that appealing to those voters who really are set against Brexit could be a route back for the Lib Dems, especially if they are the lone «anti-Brexit» party.
All this said, I am dead set against the move afoot to have state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia remove him from the School Board.
Republicans are dead set against such a plan, which Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif on Tuesday said would «needlessly divert resources away from our schools, infrastructure and initiatives to provide tax relief for hardworking families.»
Owie stated that everyone should all realise that when those who are supposed to govern well, decide to be «unjust, unfair, and discriminate, they set themselves against God,» pointing out that severe consequences must follow.
Last week's increase of 0.8 % in the Conservatives» vote can be seen as any kind of triumph only when set against poll - fuelled expectations and their success in turning the coalition's unpopularity into the destruction of the Liberal Democrats.
But her relative silence and independent travel in recent weeks is set against a salacious backdrop: A Wall Street Journal report that the porn star Stormy Daniels was paid $ 130,000 just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair she had had a decade earlier with Mr. Trump — when the Trumps were newlyweds, and soon after Mrs. Trump gave birth to their son, Barron.
We must set this against the Liberal - Conservative coalition established by Cameron and Clegg following the general election of the 6 May.
No amount of falsehood about government's performance however will change the fact that the NPP's record over the eight years they were in power pales into insignificance when set against what the NDC has done in office.
He needs a new L.G. to counter the right who he is dead set against his policies.
Set against this skyscraper of debt, how can a «fiscal stimulus» of # 20 billion make a scrap of difference.
Buffalo builder and megamillionaire Carl Paladino, a Tea Party activist expected to challenge Lazio in the GOP primary, said, «I am dead set against the mosque at Ground Zero because it's an affront to Americans everywhere.
Well, all that and a giant photo of the thrice - married Gingrich and his wife of 11 years, Callista, set against a diverse sea of smiling Americans waving American flags and looking to the heavens.
He acknowledges the seeming contradiction and points out its necessary without campaign finance reform (which Tom DiNapoli and his buddies are dead set against).
Speaking on a day when several cabinet ministers suggested that Labour voters should cast their ballot for the Liberal Democrats in some seats, the former prime minister set himself against the tactic, and was contemptuous of Nick Clegg's party and its claim to represent real change.
With the new education bargain and there are many positive things happening and the district and that I and is set against supporting.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has vowed to expose the Electoral Commission as a biased institution set against Ghana's largest opposition party.
All pertinent issues today set against public cynicism about the role of government and the intelligence and security services.
The theme of togetherness was set against the Tories» slogan which was (according to Ed M and his speechwriters, at least) «You're on your own».
«Every guarantee we have made is set against the assets of the bank,» Brown argues.
For in the face of a wobbling US and a Germany set against intervention, intensive diplomacy from the UK and France has paid off.
That is certainly better than 2016's recession of -1.54 % but set against our average population growth rate of 2.8 - 3.0 %, it is no surprise that Nigerians are getting poorer!
Sir Paul Stephenson told the Today programme he was extremely concerned by budget cuts set against the backdrop of a surge in demand on policing caused by unrest over the coalition government's austerity agenda.
Paterson's office was criticized for PATRONAGE, LACK OF LEADERSHIP, INDECISIVENESS and INFIGHTING, set against a backdrop of general CHAOS — in other words the office was a ZOO.
The Police Service should be attracting the best calibre of candidate possible when set against a nationally recognised standard and without the requirement for higher educational qualifications.
All true, but these achievements have to be set against his support for coercion in Ireland and the massive corruption through the sale of honours.
For that reason its value must be set against the recent calls for housing to supplant green fields, and it should be compared again with housing in Britain's «hierarchy of needs».
So the sausage usually gets made according to Albany's insular needs and logic — which was already going to work against de Blasio in 2016, an election year, and will probably be even more set against the mayor after his tirade.
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