Sentence examples for against a storm from inspiring English sources

"It looked hunkered down against a storm," Mr. Doty recalled.

Against a storm of liberal opposition, Rauscher fought unsuccessfully after 1867 for the preservation of this agreement.

Before we left, he pointed out one of the precautions he'd taken against a storm: the hurricane straps still attached to the frame of his former guest house.

On one of the best performances of the night, "Falling Out of Love," Mr. Lennon's voice formed a clean chromatic line against a storm of sound.

The Fog of Amendment Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University Monday 11 March 2013 The Hungarian Parliament today passed a 15-page amendment to its one-year-old constitution against a storm of protest from both home and abroad.

As in classical cabaret, "Just as If" is leavened by jokes, in this case those written by inmates: "A Jew is walking down a street in Berlin when he accidentally brushes up against a storm trooper.

This is the angle that Robert pushes in his 1824 "Brigand and His Wife in Prayer," in which a swarthy bandito, wearing dangle earrings and holding a gun, kneels with his pregnant mate at wayside cross against a storm-tossed mountain vista.

But we were against really a storm.

5) Due to the proximity of offshore boundaries in both TIME and BISCAYNE, the model cannot represent the long offshore fetch over which high-wind forces on the ocean surface pile up water against shorelines, producing a storm surge.

The death verdict against Kesselring unleashed a storm of protest in the United Kingdom.

All of these might appear to be psychological defenses against incurring such a storm of criticism.