Sentence examples for mine against from inspiring English sources

He spent the 1970s defending the Muzo mine against Pablo Escobar and the Medellín drug gang, who wanted control of it in order to launder money.

Valleywag's Owen Thomas offers up an excellent rant (that's their word, not mine) against the moral-hazard fundamentalists who insist that bailouts are a bad idea because they'll encourage bad behavior in the future.

Each singles match pits the player with the blue and black balls, which by luck of the coin flip were mine, against the player with the red and yellow balls.

"I asked: 'What did he do wrong?' And they said: 'He laid a mine against us.' " "My son had been away in Nadali district for three days, and said he did not know anything about it," Mr. Aminullah said.

By James Surowiecki February 24 , 2009Valleywag's Owen Thomas offers up an excellent rant (that's their word, not mine) against the moral-hazard fundamentalists who insist that bailouts are a bad idea because they'll encourage bad behavior in the future.

Our bodies fit perfectly together — my knees pressed into the backs of his, my breath in the nape of his neck, his fingers knotted into mine against his chest; we lay talking, or listening to the Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, Dylan.

Still, her husband continued to allow their son to go mining against her wishes.

Another test was a warning his police contacts supplied of orders they had to move into the Kolubara coal mines against striking miners on Wednesday.

The use of this barrier will provide coal mine management with an additional explosion control close to the point of ignition and may find application within longwall faces further protecting mines against the risk of an explosion propagating throughout a mine.

The use of this active explosion barrier will provide coal mine management with an additional explosion control close to the point of ignition and may find application within longwall faces further protecting mines against the risk of an explosion propagating throughout a mine.

You can see, around so-called BC, that indigenous people are rising up and taking real action against mining, against pipelines, against all these different industries," Molly said.