Sentence examples for claw against from inspiring English sources

The aim of this clinical study was to determine the efficacy of Uncaria tomentosa (cat's claw) against denture stomatitis (DS).

Numerous shrimps and some amphipods snap the movable finger of the enlarged claw against the hand as part of threat displays and courtship signals.

The February ruling was a rare and bracing slap for Germany's storied carmakers, who have fought tooth and claw against diesel bans and count on German officialdom to back the industry, whatever the issue.

For its part, the Republican Party, last seen fighting tooth and claw against efforts to extend the Voting Rights Act, continues to oppose what activists like to call throwing money at the problem of poverty.

The novel often feels more like a film treatment, especially as it pants breathlessly toward a conclusion in which hordes of dogs, good and bad, fight tooth and claw against men armed with night-vision goggles and assault rifles.

Kansas fought, scratched and clawed against Northern Illinois, but the Jayhawks eventually came up short: N.I.U. 30, K.U.

And one big pregnant female comes racing through weeds to pounce between the paws of a marble dog crouching on a grave and sharpens her claws against his beard of moss before she goes all silky, luxuriously squirming right under the dog's jaws, and rolls over to expose her swollen belly.

"It's time for CEOs to walk the walk," Buffett wrote, warning that many CEOs make empty promises to reform, but fight tooth-and-claw against "a hard look at their own pay and perks".

"The frogs will start kicking and drag these claws against your skin," he says.

But at other times, it was roaring gusts, raging and clawing against his shelter.

How can we love when the world is clawing against us?