Sentence examples for bereft against from inspiring English sources

I slumped, lightheaded and bereft, against a plate glass window.

They had hoped that the boardroom revolution would lift the team, but the display was bereft against a side defeated 10-0 by Hearts last weekend.

PAGE A21 BUSINESS AGAINST THE CURRENT, Bereft of Paddles Rarely have so few people had so little time to prop up so many pillars of the economy as those in the Treasury Department under Timothy F. Geithner.

While on the pill 20 years ago, Michelle had a miscarriage that left her bereft and turned her against birth control.

Zenit breezed through a weak group, winning five of their six matches, but they were stodgy against Benfica, bereft of ideas going forward, forced to play with 10 men when Domenico Criscito was sent off for a second booking and punished when Jonas headed in Nicolás Gaitán's free-kick in stoppage time.

Now it was my turn: I confessed to the loneliness of long service as Dad's defender -- against her, bereft of warm mother love.

It is a bewilderment that understandably compelled many survivors to disassociate themselves with the ideologies and institutions of the new, especially those proposed, now erstwhile, utopian political ideologies advocated by both the Left and the Right--the same ideologies that either left them bereft of a defense against fascism, or delivered them into its hands.

Back in Libya, the counterrevolution made its stand, and a despot bereft of mercy declared war against his own people.

"I felt bereft of that line of defense against age, death, all those big issues," she said.

But this is a must-win game against a team notably bereft of Messi-level attacking geniuses.

Seven goals, even against a team so bereft of anything resembling their best values as this Stoke City, represented rather more than a bullish shout of confidence.