Sentence examples for be fed against from inspiring English sources

Critics say the elk continue to be fed, against the advice of experts, only because of the power of the livestock industry.

Pipeline feeding in positive pressure systems represents a particular problem; however, if the material is contained in a storage hopper at atmospheric pressure, the material has to be fed against a pressure gradient.

Brady wants the tribunal to judge that he is no longer ill so he can move to prison - where he hopes he will not be fed against his will, so he might try to starve himself to death - although his precise intentions remain unclear.

To grind a cylindrical form in a workpiece, the piece is rotated as it is fed against the grinding wheel.

A milling machine cuts metal as the workpiece is fed against a rotating cutting tool called a milling cutter.

Some of the other 17 detainees were also not eating or drinking, but were in a special cell block and were not yet being fed against their will, Mr. Henry said.

When some complained about providing assistance to Russia, Hoover's response was unequivocal: "Twenty million people are starving; whatever their politics, they should be fed". The relief effort he led against the 1921 Russian famine remains one of the largest food relief efforts of all time.

I kept thinking about what Jacqueline Rose recently wrote in the London Review of Books: that our attention to violence against women might "be feeding vicariously off the forms of perversion that fuel the violence in the first place".

The queens are assessed, and if necessary, replaced with stronger ones, and the bees are fed and inoculated against disease.

I'm fed up with voting against someone; it debases what it should mean to vote".

And, in fact, Egypt, the entire world is fed up with violence against women.