Sentence examples for massed against from inspiring English sources

With our troops massed against Iraq, Americans are apprehensive and divided.

Yves Tanguy's "Hostages" (1934), with its blobby humanoids massed against a distant horizon, is a classic Surrealist dreamscape.

They're naked and massed against the circus tent side by side, looking more like captives in some grim animal lockdown — which is, of course, what they are.

As Bundy's allies massed against the federal agents in Nevada, the state's governor, Brian Sandoval, a Republican but no ideologue, accused the Feds of provoking the standoff.

It is the possibility of Mr Hussein keeping his nerve and the alliance cracking first.Given the balance of forces, political and military, it seems extraordinary that Mr Hussein could stare down the powerful coalition massed against him.

He writes in his introductory chapter that the idea of modernists as "scofflaws or mavericks massed against the solid verities of time-honored high culture and, usually, Christian faith" is one of the avant-garde's "cherished fairy tales".

But the forces massing against the idea are fearsome.

The first thing occupants of the compound knew about the forces massing against them was the sound of shouting and detonations at the front entrance.

There was also a footnoted paragraph that mentioned how Revere, when captured by British troops, warned the troops that the rebels in Lexington and Concord were massing against them.

The pro-war forces are massing against us in Iowa Tuesday.

Acropolis withdraws to the planet Hargenteen where the TCAF is massing against ADAN's onslaught.