Sentence examples for affairs against from inspiring English sources

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But apparently your 'fights' are genteel affairs, against other soppy geriatrics rolling around the floor in crisp white outfits, in some bit of judokai nonsense.

So critics devised the label "magical feminism" just for Isabel Allende's multigenerational family chronicles featuring strong-willed women, usually entangled in steamy love affairs against a backdrop of war and political upheaval.

The 70-year-old art collector responded in a letter for publication: "Apparently your 'fights' are genteel affairs, against other soppy geriatrics rolling around the floor in crisp white outfits, in some bit of judokai nonsense.

Prior goes on to defend his account of modality as quantification over possible states of affairs against various alternatives, for example the Andersonian account, according to which 'Every table here is necessarily brown' means 'There is a property which every table here in fact possesses, and of which it is true that everything that possesses it is in fact brown'.

The Basic Law of Hong Kong protects local civil affairs against any interference by the garrison; members of the garrison are subject to Hong Kong laws.

Enter Charles Campisi, who served 41 years on the force, and was drafted into Internal Affairs against his will by NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly in 1993.

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Its subject was an interracial love affair against a background of South African apartheid.

Three Sunday games in a row is terrific for Mets' loyalists, who were also treated to a 20-inning affair against the Cardinals on April 17 on FOX.

With a jump shot from in front of the Syracuse bench, Shumpert broke a tie with 36 seconds remaining in the sloppy, see-saw affair against Kentucky.

The way he used the bullpen, deploying rarely used relievers in a one-run affair against the team chasing them, was his first significant decision during a game that he made with an eye toward the playoffs.

Ralph Fiennes is nominated for best actor in The End of the Affair, against Jim Broadbent, who played WS Gilbert in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy, and Om Puri for East is East.

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