The phrase "against collections" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing opposition to debt collection practices or policies.
Example: "The new law was enacted to protect consumers against collections that are deemed unfair or abusive."
Alternatives: "opposed to collections" or "in opposition to collections".
Some of the mortgage bundles he was betting against — collections of some of the sketchiest subprime loans — were paying the investors who bought them six-per-cent interest.
It is up against collections from Alice Oswald, Ian Duhig and Denise Riley, all of which also appeared on the Forward shortlist.
Once this has occurred, they will use the Columbia Genome Center's high-throughput screening facility to screen the plates against collections of compounds, placing different fluorescent molecules from the Chang library in triplicate into different wells.
NSF's Poston says the agency isn't trying to discriminate against collections infrastructure.
Typically, most authors compare their methods against a handful of other methods for a dataset, or in some cases against collections of multiple sequence alignments, such as the Pfam database [16].
By querying a large number of them against collections of diverse strains, a set of canonical SNPs (canSNPs) that define major clades within the B. anthracis species has been identified and used for subdividing all isolates into three major lineages (A, B and C) and 13 major sub-lineages or sub-groups [ 2- 5].
Under the headline Avoiding (Re)extinction, four biologists cautioned against collection of rare species.
The bill prays for an injunction against such an apportionment and certification, and also against collection by the officers of the state.
The department's Office of the Inspector General has been critical of officials for not doing enough to track and respond to complaints filed against collection agencies.
It granted, however, a permanent injunction against collection of taxes prior to December 4, 1939 the date on which this Court denied a petition for rehearing on the petition for certiorari.
"Debtorboards is geared to help people use the laws as they are on the books as both a shield and a sword," said Mr. Katz, who says he has won $36,000 from his own litigation against collection agencies.
