Sentence examples for directly against a from inspiring English sources

Avoid stacking firewood directly against a house.

It exploded directly against a narrow slit though which Worden was at that moment peering.

The first principle of scheduling any film's release date is to avoid going directly against a similar movie.

A spokesman for the F.A.A., Hank Price, said such a rule would allow the agency to move directly against a contractor like Argenbright.

Given that Proxison exhibited some co-localization with a mitochondrial marker, we decided to test its protective capabilities directly against a known mitochondrial antioxidant, MitoQ35.

MPs could technically choose to ignore the referendum result and block the agreement, but it would be madness for politicians to attempt to go directly against a popular referendum result.

Though Mr. Mubarak has a dim view of Mr. Sharon as a peacemaker, he said it was necessary to keep in touch, as he said he did last month when warning Mr. Sharon directly against an Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip.

The patent's authors also suggested the user might opt to place the display directly against an object in order to superimpose information.

The ink manufacturing technology had been improved during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the shape of ink had gradually developed into the large ingot-type, which can be ground directly against an inkstone.

This inkstone was designed in this way, because the contemporary inks were mainly formed in small pellets, which could not be ground directly against an inkstone without the help of another smaller grinding stone [5, 6].

But it isn't going to enter the space in a way that requires them to abandon the last five years of app and device development, and they're not going to compete directly against an opponent that offers a product they can't hope to match.