Sentence examples similar to drain against from inspiring English sources

Yesterday Roddick was drained against Gonzalez.

He was not suggesting, however, that Chelsea will still be emotionally drained against Liverpool.

At the little bars in town, bottles of Gazelle beer are gradually drained against a backdrop of Bob Marley or some kora music, and the funky, lazy life of Casamance drifts on.

According to the Media Guardian regional media group Archant is to ramp up its classified advertising, to fight back against the drain of ad revenue to online rivals, with a property website called Homes 24.co.uk.

They had endured two hours of gruelling, draining football against Besiktas.

Antonio Conte was apparently not looking for excuses but cited the quick turnaround from Wednesday's draining draw against Arsenal as key to this lethargic display.

Because Cone threw 137 pitches in six draining innings against Seattle on Saturday, Torre was leery about bringing him back on only four days' rest to start on Thursday afternoon against Oakland.

He states that America is in danger of sliding into "systemic obsolescence", caused by political stalemate at home and misguided engagement abroad in "lonely and draining campaigns" against sometimes "self-generated" enemies, such as Iraq.If American leadership does collapse, what then?

Fair play to Nathan Brown and his Saints players for reacting phlegmatically to some pretty tough cards in the last couple of weeks, with injuries, suspensions and consecutive cup draws which mean that after draining victories against Leeds and Huddersfield, they must now play Cas, Wigan, Widnes and Leeds again in the space of 16 days.

They were prepared, they made clear, to undertake those draining operations against Islamic "terrorist networks" in no less than 60 countries around the planet.

Situated where, respectively, the Limmat, Rhône, and Reuss rivers drain the lakes, against backdrops of nearby sculpted Alpine peaks, Zurich, Geneva, and Lucerne combine local glacial topography with urban structures, including architecturally significant cathedrals, to form a composite landscape of nature and culture.