Sentence examples for erect against from inspiring English sources

Markovits consistently draws our attention to the barriers we erect against each other, against any possibility of admitting we are all the same, all human (a word that recurs, almost a mantra) - that we share, must share, almost every thing.

Height is measured with the child barefoot and erect against a wall-mounted stadiometer and recorded to the last 0.5 cm.

To walk straight and tall it helps to hold your arms parallel to your ears, walking like this helps if you have a slouch, practice this,to hold yourself erect against gravity.

The barricades erected against the Comanches are composed of artifacts of our civilization--ashtrays, liquor bottles, tables made from doors.

These microbes are capable of changing their surface characteristics to elude barriers the body has erected against them.

Often it is erected against a pillar and sometimes upon a short, free-standing base or slender column.

Some 120 tents had been erected against government orders after the protest, which drew 20,000 people to downtown Kiev.

Supporters insisted that barriers needed to be erected against the loss of Swiss jobs to cheap labor.

The other side, you're deep in the shade of the ancient city wall, erected against the Vikings.

Removal of the trade barriers that developed countries have erected against developing countries is at least as important as economic aid.

They don't see that the wall of hostility they erected against Israel, and lately against America, has turned into a wall holding the Arabs back from modernity.