The phrase "against a dam" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing actions or events that occur in opposition to or in contact with a dam structure.
Example: "The floodwaters surged against a dam, testing its structural integrity."
Alternatives: "in opposition to a dam" or "up against a dam".
In earlier testimony, I likened this process to water backing up against a dam that is finally breached.
Criticism of the university system has been growing for years, but it was only in April that, energized by protests against a dam in Patagonia, students finally took to the streets.
They're out in force in Bruce Barcott's new book, "The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird," the story of a bitter fight against a dam in western Belize.
Last month, as many as 100,000 farmers in Sichuan Province, frustrated by months of fruitless appeals against a dam project that claimed their land, took matters into their own hands.
Mnouchkine has spent the past four decades forging a high theatrical style to tell epic stories, from Shakespeare's histories and the Oresteia to tales of people left behind by the French revolution and Chinese peasants struggling against a dam that would swamp their farms.
Their alleged misdemeanour: "land invasion" during a protest against the construction of a dam.
After G8 came to an end, Kennedy vanished to Iceland to campaign against the construction of a dam.
He got his start as an environmental activist at age 12, when he fought, as part of a landmark victory for conservationists in Australia, against the construction of a dam in Tasmania.
Using a fake passport, Kennedy visited more than 22 countries, taking part in protests against the building of a dam in Iceland, touring Spain with eco-activists, and penetrating anarchist networks in Germany and Italy.
Her mission was duplicated less than a year later when Cáceres' daughter, Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, abandoned her studies to continue the crusade against the building of a dam and press Honduras to find her mother's killers.
Donald Trump, a billionaire who opposes raising the minimum wage, now at the poverty level of $7.25 an hour, is holding himself out to working people as the man who will stand as a dam against that torrent.
