Sentence examples for against the lines from inspiring English sources

The Albanians repeatedly pushed against the lines of British and Canadian soldiers and French paramilitary police officers as fights broke out and demonstrators were hauled away.

But in my 40s, I wanted plain clear glass, and soon realised that if the first appeal of a poem isn't going to be in the texture of its language, then it must have some other means of taking hold, and traditional metre and a syntax that runs over and plays against the lines can do the job.

In his 2003 book, "The Age of Consent," George Monbiot, the British writer and activist, wrote, "We are left to shout abuse, to hurl ourselves against the lines of police, to seek to smash the fences which stand between us and the decisions made on our behalf".

Here is rebellion in verse, an act of literary guerrilla warfare against "the lines, the forms, the people at the desks, the calling cards, the immigration officer", against a stodgy western literary sphere that too often relegates poetry like hers to the peripheries of acclaim.

If your forehead has horizontal lines you wish to lighten, you want to massage against the lines, rather than with them.

As I climb, I'm up against the line's metal bones, its rivets and beams.

Mr. Romney was sharpest in attacking Mr. Giuliani for efforts against the line-item veto.

But I agree that the administration pushed up against the line that separates prudence from weakness.

Earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, Bartlett advanced a different case against the line-item veto: It's not necessary.

Opticians, therefore, often plot the contrast with which the image is reproduced against the line spacing of that image.

A second fish, cruising between us and our quarry, had brushed against the line and severed it.