Sentence examples for misery against from inspiring English sources

Hopes had been high heading into the test in Sydney that, under McKenzie, the Wallabies would finally end years of Bledisloe Cup misery against their arch-rivals.

The Dardenne brothers make films about hard times and tough choices, balancing so much human misery against soul-stirring acts of kindness.

Satisfied is a lovely little bedroom-crafted ditty, with lyrics about being crap at relationships sung with genuine misery against a gentle Mambo beat.

During the World Cup, I tried hard to invest in matches that meant nothing to the cosmos, let alone England, and to forget the backdrop of human misery against which they were played.

First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence.

What he saw was not really a struggle of "Life" with a capital L against "Death" with a capital D. Rather, it was a tradeoff of specific miseries against specific joys.

Or, put in a more affirmative way: Vegetarianism allows me to live my values -- to "pray ceaselessly," as St. Paul puts it: Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty.

"In all likelihood," Professor Levin said of the attacker, "he sought revenge for his miseries, not against any particular individual, but against an entire group of people — all New Yorkers, all Americans, all of humankind".

We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation".

Mr. Yayi thanked the NGO partners for supporting Benin in the fight against malaria, which he called "a fight against misery".

The Pope's forthcoming encyclical, or teaching letter, entitled Laudato Si, is addressed to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and is expected to be a dramatic intervention in the international political process, insisting that the fight against global warming, no less than the fight against misery and destitution, is a moral issue which must be addressed by the whole world.