Sentence examples for against a rather from inspiring English sources

Or a bunch of celery ("Celery Wright's White"), upright against a rather rumpled backdrop, looking thoroughly majestic?

A lovely slab of cod, roasted in aromatic herbs, fights for life against a rather heavy mushroom-port reduction.

That's it, sixth highest total in England;s one day history and a real team effort against a rather flat Windies.

All his new team-mates thought their coach was joking – "You would be hard-pressed to think anything other than that the hair dye had finally seeped into Kevin Squire's brain," one told the North Devon Journal – but, sure enough, Collins bought himself a new pair of boots and featured at No8 against a rather startled Newton Abbot.

In bringing off-Facebook dollars to the platform these networks are up against a rather formidable competitor: Facebook itself.

Or Florida, No. 1 in the South, which went 32-2 but largely against a rather weak SEC?

The masthead also undergoes changes and is set against a white rather than blue background, with story trails appearing beneath it rather than above.

They also raise poverty measured against a fixed, rather than relative, poverty line.

Many people vote against a party rather than for another one.

She noted that the bedroom radiator, against a wall rather than beneath the window, wasn't ideal for bed placement.

The bill will define rape as a crime against a person, rather than a crime against morality, as it characterised at present.