Sentence examples for partly against from inspiring English sources
Libya's uprising was partly against the rule of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
That vote was partly against immigration, a theme the National Front leader has long exploited.
The play is set, partly against the background of the Troubles, in a hospital ward where Rinty's father TJ has been in a long-term coma.
The early Christian community's attitude to birth control was formed partly in reaction against sexual exploitation and infanticide and partly against the Gnostic denigration of the material world and consequent hostility to procreation.
These disciplined composers (including Schumann and Mendelssohn) reacted partly against what they felt to be the extramusical emphasis and compositional excesses of Berlioz, Liszt, and lesser figures, who took as their point of departure Beethoven's less conventional fifth, sixth, and ninth symphonies.
Krasner's struggle, apart from the formal one, was partly against the indifference of the New York art world to women, although that gradually changed during her lifetime, and partly it was against the inevitable shifting tide of fashion, which denied Abstract Expressionism's value when she was coming into her own as an Abstract Expressionist.
The son of a clergyman, Pontoppidan partly revolted against his environment by beginning studies in engineering in Copenhagen in 1873.
The Parisian taxi drivers are partly protesting against economic regulations in cities where taxi drivers have to pay for expensive medallions while Uber drivers do not.
His means of bringing it about embraced an orgy of murder and martyrdom partly directed against the "Crusader" West, particularly America.
The Oscar nomination received by The Act of Killing, the documentary about massacres in Indonesia in the 1960s, has caused an outcry in China, where the events – partly directed against ethnic Chinese in the country – were little known.
The monkeys immunized with SHIV-TNF were partly protected against a pathogenic SHIV (SHIV-C2/1) challenge.
