Sentence examples for causes against from inspiring English sources

Arminians in turn favoured Charles's causes against Puritans and Parliament.

The AFL star said he would continue to advocate for his nominated causes: against racism and domestic violence, and pushing for constitutional recognition of Australia's first peoples.

And some Democrats see in Mr. Silver a speaker who effectively stands up for their causes against a Republican governor and a Republican Senate majority.

By crusading for a series of quixotic causes against the local establishment, Mr. Paladino has frequently been dismissed as little more than a deep-pocketed gadfly.

A former army paratrooper from a poor family, he rose to power by seizing on the swelling discontent among Venezuela's poorest masses, promising to champion their causes against what he denounced as the corrupt forces of the old establishment.

Like American first ladies, but unlike spouses of past Chinese leaders, Ms. Peng has taken a high-profile role in promoting social causes — against tuberculosis, AIDS and tobacco use — as an ambassador for the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

But they have common cause against the Jews, in Israel or abroad".

Only one returned; the rest were killed fighting for the jihadist cause against the Russians.

Here Arabs see mainly the loss of previously reliable supporters of their cause against Israel.

But imagine if a farmer led the cause against climate change.

Russia was defending Serbia and the Slavic cause against German imperialism.