Sentence examples for against a view from inspiring English sources

By John Malcolm Brinnin The New Yorker, January 4 , 1964P. 30 Alfonso was his name; his sad cantina leaned against a View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By George Packer By Doreen St. Félix.

"Bah," Emmy said, a signal for her mother to turn her back around to the tank so she could see the red squirrelfish, hippo and unicorn tangs, queen angel and lion fish swimming placidly against a view of the promenade, the Hudson River and a New Jersey high-rise behind it.

The painter Vija Celmins sets it against a view of (we presume) the Milky Way, and Laurie Anderson's score gives us a recycling spiel in I know not which Eastern European language over some inoffensive rhythms that suggest now African music, now rock.

Against a view of the downtown skyline laden with fatal smoke, two ballerinas in tutus fill the foreground, one waving the American flag (it seems to be turning into smoke itself), the other stretched in yet another of Mr. Capri's backbends, her hand flamboyantly pressed to her brow.

This argument is of course utterly question begging against a view that holds that there is no privileged standard of rest (the view Clarke mistakenly attributes to Leibniz)!

Since one accepts that [it is not possible to decide for or against a view among a few competing ones], there is nothing wrong [in rejecting the idea of an omniscient person]." [Akalaṅka:] Ergo this decision of some [thinkers, i.e., materialists] is itself void of any rational basis.

The Netherlands was also the site of the international Synod of Dort (1619) that presented an especially rigid statement of Calvinism against Arminianism (a view that asserted the compatibility of God's sovereignty and humanity's free will).

The United States destroyed a 60-year framework of international law against torture when it asserted that "national emergency" and "executive order" could void the laws against torture – a view that is sweet music to dictators around the world.

Computer makers had said that the provision made it more difficult for them to assert their patent rights against Microsoft, a view partly acknowledged in a recent deposition by Richard Fade, a Microsoft senior vice president.

Yet see Burge 1998 n. 2 for remarks against such a view).

But Kripke vigorously argues against such a view in the 1980 version of Kripke 1972: 24, 156 58.