Sentence examples for against the cause from inspiring English sources

Boards talk about finances but not enough about effectiveness at delivering against the cause".

"They're waging a war of attrition against the cause of good policy".

I have never seen multinationals fighting so hard against the cause of transparency," he said.

They are also going against the cause of reform, lobbying for delays that would derail the law.

To political exiles from countries such as Italy and Germany this was, of course, the moment they had been waiting for, their chance to strike back against the cause of their exile.

He has been barred from I.W.C. meetings since 1986, when Sea Shepherd scuttled two of Hvalur's ships in Reykjavik's harbor an act of sabotage that many conservationists believe helped turn Icelandic public opinion against the cause of saving whales.

Previously, appeals by Mr. Miller that the church take direct action against the causes of poverty were not accepted with equanimity by all of the congregation.

A degree of underreporting higher than average to the NCR has been described for patients with lung and digestive cancer, in validations against the Cause-of-Death Registry (Cancer Incidence in Sweden, 2007).

Bradford Hill makes explicit the importance of considering alternative "accounts" of the observations at hand in stating: None of my nine viewpoints can bring indisputable evidence for or against the cause-and-effect hypothesis and none can be required as a sine qua non.

However, they were not intended to dismiss a factor as potentially causing the disease: "None of my nine viewpoints can bring indisputable evidence for or against the cause-and-effect hypothesis and none can be required as a sine qua non" (Bradford Hill 1965).

The VOC of chickpea, in particular trans-2-hexenal and 1-hexanol, were much more potent against the causing agents of Fusarium head blight than wheat VOC [ 149].