The phrase "adopted against a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a policy or action that has been implemented in opposition to something, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The new regulations were adopted against a backdrop of increasing public concern."
Alternatives: "implemented in opposition to" or "established counter to".
The same procedure was used to model the observed behaviour when rats played against a pseudo-random stooge rat, so that we could assess whether the behaviour adopted by rats when playing against PR (observed behaviour) would yield a worse outcome if the same strategy would be adopted against a TFT opponent.
In order to assess whether the behaviour adopted by rats when playing against TFT (observed behaviour) would yield a worse outcome if the same strategy would be adopted against a Random opponent, we simulated games where the observed strategy was played against TFT (modelling the real game) or against a random opponent.
Like the rest of the league, the 6-10, 261-pound Mourning will be undersized in this matchup, but he has a copy of the game plan N.B.A. centers have adopted against Yao since he was a rookie last season.
Thorbecke resigned in 1853 when William adopted, against the government's wishes, an anti-Catholic posture in the dispute over the proposed reestablishment of a Roman Catholic episcopal hierarchy with its archbishop at Utrecht.
The law, to take effect in September, was adopted against the advice of the doctors' union.
"There have been new laws adopted against scalping on prices".
The strategy of early prevention should be adopted against dyslipidemia.
What is the impact of risk perception on protective behaviours adopted against mosquito bites?
The prohibition against selling landed property was often dodged, however, with a stratagem: the previous owner "adopted" a willing buyer against an appropriate sum of money.
In the eighth-round game in the United States Championship in Seattle between the grandmasters Joel Benjamin of Manhattan and Alexander Shabalov of Pittsburgh, Benjamin adopted a superconservative opening against a trigger-happy foe who ventured when he shouldn't.
As the result of a merger, Universal Pictures adopted a policy against developing any more B movies.
