Sentence examples for owned against from inspiring English sources

Last month, he and David Woodley Packard, the two oldest sons of the company's founders, said they would vote the 7.5percentt of company shares they owned against the merger.

Throughout their meetings, Khan recalls the minutiae of his horrific assaults, as if the episodes are replaying before her, at one point describing Steve throwing one of the few trinkets she owned against a wall and then dragging her over its glass shards.

But we held our own against them".

She held her own against the men.

Some British food today holds its own against French cuisine.

You can hold your own against a male fencer.

(1966): Holds his own against Burton and Taylor in Albee's classic.

Desserts manage to hold their own against these dishes.

We have held our own against Wal-Mart reasonably well".

Held his own against France's big scrummagers.

They really hold their own against the London orchestras.