Sentence examples for been held against from inspiring English sources

Every spectacular goal has been held against this standard ever since.

She told police she had been held against her will, drugged, raped and repeatedly smacked in the face.

Hallyday, né Jean-Philippe Smet, is in fact Belgian, but that has never been held against him.

But when he talked of being Tutsi it was always as an identity that had been held against him, never as an affirmative declaration of belonging.

A 57-year-old victim, from Ireland, had secretly accessed a phone and called a charity to say she had been held against her will for decades.

"We have had some previous cases...where we know people have been held against their will for up to 10 years.

I lifted up the two fingers I had been holding against my side.

I am held against my will.

"It could be held against us".

His theatricality was held against him.

"Please listen: I'm not being held against my will".