Sentence examples for a subject against from inspiring English sources

Again and again, the cinematographer, Frederick Elmes ("Blue Velvet"), isolates a subject against a bland background, and brushes past appearances, peering into his unconscious.

In addition, genetic screening for reproductive options proves to be a sensitive subject against the same background.

For the first time, our university rankings don't pitch every university to teach a subject directly up against each other.

The carpenter becomes absorbed in his activity in such a way that he has no awareness of himself as a subject over and against a world of objects.

Not every biographer gets so involved as to stage an coup against a subject's estate, but that's exactly what Page did.

Tasers were used in the manner of a 'cattle prod' and pressed against a subject's body on 123 occasions in England and Wales during the same period in 2014.

Gegen-stand is the German term for object, that is, literally, that which stands over and against a subject.

We need to ensure that we are not unfairly prejudicing girls against a subject that they could hugely benefit from engaging with," he said.

Here he poses mischievously as himself in a police van with his 4x5 Speed Graphic camera and flash, using the one technical trick he had ever bothered to learn – a flash bulb to capture his subject against a dark background.

(He had held a subject in his research unit against her will).

A case in point: Recently, the loans have been a subject of a lawsuit brought against HUD by the AARP Foundation and others because some older borrowers who weren't listed on the loan documents ended up in foreclosure proceedings.