Sentence examples for lies against from inspiring English sources

Above Orion is Taurus whose main star, Aldebaran, lies against the V-shaped Hyades star cluster.

In the taxi she lies against him, still half asleep, her head pillowed on his breast.

The urethra enters it on the flattened deep aspect that lies against the perineal membrane, traverses its substances, and continues into the corpus spongiosum.

She and P.J. chatted as time allowed, or until Nakesha veered into topics that hinted at paranoia: plots and lies against her.

MR. CANNON was born and raised in this generally shapeless town, which lies against some craggy hills at the leading edge of San Diego's sprawling growth.

So this feeling of seeing what is right, endorsing what is right, condemning what is wrong, and yet nonetheless finding oneself doing what lies against one's better judgment is a fundamental trope in the Western literary tradition.

Mr de Villepin, already reeling from defeat on the streets over his labour reforms, told a raucous parliament this week that he was "profoundly shocked and hurt" by the "campaign of slander and lies" against him.

Although there are varying anatomical methods of achieving it, the simplest arrangement, which is found in clupeids, mormyrids, labyrinthine fishes, and a few others, consists of a gas-filled sac that lies against one wall of the labyrinth.

Mr Hamilton alleged that Ukip insiders had used "the black arts of selective briefing, misrepresentation and outright lies" against him in order to ensure that he did not become the party's candidate.

We have fought against the multinationals, against the big merchant banks, against big politics, against lies against lies, corruption and deceit and today honesty and decency and belief in nation I think now is going to win.

Punctuating many scenes is a sense of proximity to bodily pain: fingers wrap around the blades of white figure skates; a razor lies against a pregnant stomach, not cutting but matching its curve under a protruding belly button.