Sentence examples for branch against from inspiring English sources

Rivalry within the Muslim Brotherhood has long pitted its more tolerant Aleppo branch against the more conservative Hama branch.

The legal filing came in a lawsuit that pits the legislative branch against the executive in a fight over a president's powers.

"What [the debt limit fight] has really become is an abuse on the part of the legislative branch, against the executive," he said.

A little over a year ago the Senate & House of Rep. each set up aSelect Comm. on Intelligence to report on secret operations by the executive branch against America's enemies at home & abroad.

"Migration" tells the story with crisply objective, even deadpan economy — it is stronger for its reticence, as in the representation of a lynching with only a noose dangling from a bare branch against a softly blue sky.

According to Paul Tucker, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, Itaú has 18.5 employees per branch, against Bradesco's 24.Meanwhile, Itaú positioned itself to profit from the various crises (Mexican, Asian, Russian and Argentine) slamming into Brazil.

"It seems that we are heading for a branch-against-branch smack-down," said Senator Gene Therriault, a Republican who voted against approving the subpoenas and instead advocated that the investigation be handled by the state Personnel Board.

A couple of palm trees waved lazy branches against the sun.

Some of the most beautiful images silhouette birds on bare branches against the late afternoon sky.

I would loop around and around to drive this road over and over, driving fast, kissing the speed limit, feeling the brush of branches against the car.

On my visit, many of its 9,000 trees are trussed up in the yukizuri style to support their branches against the heavy snows of winter.