The phrase "asked against" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear when it could be used, as it does not form a standard expression or idiomatic phrase.
Example: "He asked against the rules, which led to confusion."
Alternatives: "questioned in opposition to" or "inquired contrary to".
Nor is any relief asked against Mr. Walsh individually; the proceedings against him being strictly in his capacity as a public officer.
For Indonesians, questions about the nation's future are asked against a backdrop of fears that the country would not even survive as a nation.
But he did not rule, as the government asked, against less troubling contracts that Microsoft wrote with other partners to discourage their customers from using Netscape's browser.
"If we could start again, what kind of world would we build?" the narrator asked, against footage of hills dense with Sitka spruce.
Some European hostility to Israel may be unfair, but even Europeans who are open-minded on the issue wonder whether, in a showdown, Mr. Bush would ever do something Mr. Blair asked against Mr. Sharon's strong opposition.
The questions are being asked against a backdrop of a bitter turf war that was fought out in the open between the RSS and BJP when the party was in power from 1998 to 2004.
"Why do they put Arabs in military zones and not Jews?" he asks against a backdrop of ripped canvas.
In his letters to the Galatians and to the Romans, he asks, against the background of the Pharisees' legalistic piety, how one becomes just before God.
Zeljko Buvac, Klopp's Serbian assistant, attempted to cajole improvement from the touchline but that was not a straightforward ask against deep, unambitious opponents.
And if you're moved to ask against whom, lo these 30 years since Woodstock, you're clearly too hung up for this trip.
Stauffenberg set the noblest of moral examples, but what makes "Valkyrie" more depressing than exciting is that it forces you to ask, against your judgment, what, exactly, he achieved.
