Sentence examples for against clauses from inspiring English sources

The British Association of Social Workers has been orchestrating a campaign against clauses enabling local authorities to remove the "burden" of statutory obligations and establishing a new regulatory body effectively controlled by the secretary of state.

It is against clauses that recognise corruption as a block to human progress, and those that commit to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

There was the Lesbians Against the Clause group who campaigned against Clause 28 on the grounds that the heterosexual fabric of British society ought to be undermined.

Rowe was motivated by Christian convictions, but they were of the kind that votes against clause 28.

Lobbying against Clause 28, McKellen used his connections to buttonhole politicians, including one of Britain's most fervid anti-gay spokesmen, Michael Howard, who was later the Conservative Party leader.

The prohibition against clause-final prepositions is considered a superstition even by the language mavens, and it persists only among know-it-alls who have never opened a dictionary or style manual to check.

On Monday he'll meet Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the sumptuously phoney Getty Villa, where he can learn about the 12 Labours of Herakles - which makes the battle against Clause 4 look like a cakewalk.

We Own It, and the 11,000 people that have signed a petition against clause 21 so far, think that local authority ownership of arms-length companies is an option that needs to be kept on the table.

"The idea behind this was to toughen our stance against these clauses".

She used her position to campaign against discriminatory clauses of the Irish constitution, fighting on behalf of women, who were effectively treated as second-class citizens; homosexuals, whose actions were deemed criminal; and for freer access to contraceptives, which could not be sold without prescription in Ireland until 1985.

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