Sentence examples for against failing from inspiring English sources

The two recent comebacks have come against failing opponents.

Soldiers think they can guard children against drug traffickers, ships against pirates, dirty bombs against proliferation and states against failing.

But it may also be possible that the deck has been stacked against failing schools, which are given the most students with problems.

Mr. Bush, as a lever against failing schools, would give low-income parents whose children attend such schools vouchers that could pay for private-school tuition.

I couldn't make that choice at the time, because of all the other competing things I had to do that everybody would hold me responsible against failing for.

None the less, Blair seems determined to push ahead with his crusade against failing parents - though he must be aware that even parents from the "law-abiding majority" can find that their children are involved in offending or self-harm.

In part, this obfuscation is deliberate -- the narrator is struggling not only against a failing memory but against an aversion to memory, an unwillingness to revisit his painful past.

People also place their money offshore to hedge against catastrophe, to insure themselves against a failing U.S. dollar and economy.

The Knicks have fallen into deep holes in four of their last five games, and have had to dig themselves out -- successfully against San Antonio and Indiana, but failing against Dallas and Portland.

Perhaps, but against a failing, incompetent government, one the British people may be desperate to take.

It said its armed forces had the right to take "defensive emergency measures" against those failing to comply.