The phrase "against projections" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing outcomes or results that differ from what was anticipated or forecasted.
Example: "The company's sales figures came in lower than expected, going against projections made at the beginning of the year."
Alternatives: "contrary to forecasts" or "in opposition to estimates".
The report, by the Education and Employers Taskforce, examined the ambitions of young people aged 13 to 18 and mapped them against projections for skills demands.
Like other wireless companies, Vodafone faces the high costs of acquiring licenses and building networks for a new generation of mobile phones and other wireless devices, piling up debts against projections of high growth from customers linking to the Internet from the sidewalk or checking e-mail on mobile phones at much higher speeds than is possible today.
Cisco csco was still the most actively traded technology stock, edging up 21/4 to 67 13/16 after beating Wall Streets expectations with its quarterly earnings of 34 cents per diluted share, against projections of 33 cents.
Topographic variability of a steep alpine terrain creates a multitude of fine-scale thermal habitats that is mirrored in plant species distribution, warning against projections of the responses of alpine plant species to climate warming that adopt a broad-scale isotherm approach (Scherrer and Korner 2010).
Achieving this production cost target, which is benchmarked against projections for crude oil prices, will enable the start of a viable industry converting lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol.
Finally, one of the volumes, which represented most of the class averages, was used for iterative refinement of the spatial orientations of the tilted and untilted particles by projection matching against projections of the current best map using Spider.
Figure 3 Residuals of mean top height plotted against projection length for kauri grown in planted stands (RMSE =1.301, mean =0.09).
The form of this model for projecting a measurement of basal area G1 at age T1 forward to age T is: G = a 1 - 1 - G i / a 1 / c T / T i c (3). Figure 6 Residuals of basal area plotted against projection length for all planted kauri (RMSE =7.58, mean =0.44).
Canada has been using current data and measuring it against old projections.
A report from the Resolution Foundation on Wednesday forecast an £84bn shortfall in the Treasury's finances against the projections to 2020-21 made by the then chancellor George Osborne in March.
Sherman remedied that, first with a series of would-be sophisticated young women posed against rear projections of urban locales, and then, in 1981, with a breakthrough show: a dozen two-by-four-foot "centerfold" images of socially assorted females lost in introspective anguish.
