The phrase "against clues" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing opposition or contradiction to hints or evidence, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "The detective's theory was against clues that suggested otherwise."
Alternatives: "contrary to evidence" or "in opposition to hints".
It has been claimed in turn that she was a famous Roman courtesan, a garden-variety prostitute, an aristocrat, a servant, a noble bride, the painter's sister or, most recently, a man.Ms Neilson tests each claim against clues provided by Antea's costume and jewellery, and details from contemporary poetry, as well as other works of art.
Most of the predicted sequences exhibited the best hit against uncharacterized proteins from Phytophthora sp. and did not give any clue regarding their putative function.
A parametric study is carried out, and a few underlying rules are revealed, providing important clues on the design of protective structure of battery packs against ground impact.
Despondent, Ms. Sumasar passed her days behind bars scouring the indictments against her for clues that could help prove her innocence, even as news of lurid crimes that she had not committed were splashed in newspapers.
Recently, Biswas et al. reviewed potential venoms and toxins along with nanoparticle-conjugated venom toxins of snake, amphibians, and bees, etc for possible therapeutic clues against emerging disease (Biswas et al. 2012).
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But racing against time to find clues in heavily weeded archives in Sofia is unnecessary if the whole story is available elsewhere.
Facebook's initial move against ad blockers removed clues in its HTML that gave away which parts of a page were ad content.
And viewers are given hints of rescue possibilities from the outside, mainly from Mark Gerald Kydd), an investigative reporter at a San Francisco newspaper who begins looking into the unexplained disappearance of Janet and keeps running up against strange and baffling clues.
Each visitor is invited to take the role of a member of the Cahill family searching for the titular clues (competing against the books' heroes, but c'est la guerre).
Amy and Dan opt for the clues, pitting themselves against a cast of relatives who range from obnoxious to menacing to merely skeevy.
