Sentence examples for instance against from inspiring English sources

Much of this is due to a long history of corporations fighting regulations, for instance against acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons.

Brazilian officials believe such measures encourage the United States to make dubious claims of dumping, for instance, against Brazilian steel.

He makes space for lateral moments, even allowing himself soap-box stands (raging, for instance, against deconstructionists in English faculties).

Since 1993, the American military has been told to prepare to fight two major regional wars simultaneously, for instance against Iraq and North Korea.

For instance, against Boston in the Eastern Conference finals, Wade played efficiently in the first two games, both victories, taking what the Celtics' defense gave him.

But he expresses some skepticism that a case could be built, for instance, against credit rating agencies, which have successfully fended off lawsuits in the past by arguing that the First Amendment protects their ratings.

So far, the pledge has been invoked twice, in both instances against Mr. Brown, who agreed to pay the penalties.

Where once these gender crimes, in most instances against a partner or former partner, were likely to be committed in domestic settings, in many recent cases they have made a leap into the public sphere – into coffee shops and classrooms.

Gassendi enlarged upon these criticisms in his Disquisitio metaphysica, seu duitationes et instantiae adversus Renati Cartesii metaphysicam et responsa (1644; "Metaphysical Disquisition; or, Doubts and Instances Against the Metaphysics of René Descartes and Responses").

Sometimes he behaved badly, selfishly and in many instances, against his own interests.

"Even if there are more and stronger instances against it than there are in its favor, the intellect either overlooks these or treats them as negligible or does some line-drawing that lets it shift them out of the way and reject them".