The phrase "affection against" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not typically used in any context, as "affection" generally implies a positive feeling towards someone or something, while "against" suggests opposition.
Example: "She felt affection against her rival" does not make sense and would confuse readers.
Alternatives: "affection for" or "fondness towards".
He gives theoretical credit to Sir Francis Bacon, the 17th-century philosopher, whose self-control strategy was to "set affection against affection, and to master one by another; even as we use to hunt beast with beast".
She spends the first hour or so of her solitary journey as she usually spends some time after a parting from him — balancing signs of affection against those of impatience, and indifference against a certain qualified passion.
The arrival of the poor country bumpkin in the big city and the testing of filial affection against the cruelty of the industrializing economy have been myths of the modern age at least since Dickens.
Mr. Kuchma, a former Soviet rocket factory manager, has led Ukraine since November 1992, first as prime minister and then as president, by balancing Western affections against Moscow's dominance in the country's economy.
A year ago, Cynthia Shackelford, a 62-year-old North Carolina wife won an "alienation of affection" case against her husband's mistress.
But at most schools, public displays of affection are against the rules.
Nonetheless, despite Labour's nuclear love being a relatively new one – dating only from the mid-2000s – Irranca-Davies felt secure enough in the industry's affection to warn against it taking him for granted.
This book has the sophistication to weigh its subject's affection for Fidel Castro against the changing currents of left-wing governments over 50 years, sharply revealing the personal revisionism that has sustained this novelist's huge popularity no matter what goes on around him.
She said that she's not against affection, "but children need to know when it's appropriate".
In August, he wrote an editorial for Rolling Stone denouncing Republican Paul Ryan, who had previously expressed affection for Rage Against the Machine.
Back for a five-week stint for Notts, replacing his fellow Australian Adam Voges, who is vice-captaining Australia A against Pakistan A, he proved his affection by making 126 against Lancashire as if there was no better job in the world.
