Sentence examples for frank against from inspiring English sources

And Frank, against the odds, may wind up in the Oval Office.

Flying to Bangkok in 1968, Frank, against all advice, makes his way through the jungle to northern Thailand, where a courtly Chinese officer — a member of the long-defeated Kuomintang — supervises vast poppy fields.

In 1952, the Broadway version pitted Otto Frank against the novelist Meyer Levin, who had written a stage adaptation that Mr. Frank felt was too focused on Jews as victims and should be universalized.

One thing Mr. Frank has not tired of, he said, is defending Dodd-Frank against its many critics and being seen, and often attacked, as the Congressional figure most closely associated with the legislation.

Augustin Thierry's narratives present the histories of England and France in terms of ethnicity (Normans against Saxons and Franks against Gallo-Romans).

ON THE SCREEN -- The commercial opens with the same videotape of Mr. Franks against a black background used in all of Mr. Corzine's other attack ads.

The genre prospered from the late 11th to the early 14th century, offering exemplary stories of warfare, often pitting Franks against Saracens, that fire the emotions with their insistent rhythms.

The central act of his pontificate was to free the papacy from Byzantium and to ally it with the Franks against the Lombards, who, under the Lombardic king Aistulf, were threatening Rome and attempting to conquer all of Italy.

The Avar Khaganate collapsed around 803 as a result of several successful military campaigns launched by the Franks against it.

These attacks had lasting political consequences, souring the previously cordial Lombard-Frankish relations and opening the door to an alliance between the Empire and the Franks against the Lombards, a coalition agreed to by Guntram in about 571.

How do you run as the candidate against Dodd-Frank when it now appears that Dodd- Frank only protects against the tip of the iceberg?