Sentence examples for patch against from inspiring English sources
Teenagers Doink and Jock, children of British service personnel on the Rock, spend early summer shooting octopus, introducing newcomer Darren to their way of life, and defending their patch against the local lads.
There are moments, too, of utterly bleak comedy, such as when Terri, Krystal's mother, whose council house is a rubbish dump, attempts to defend her patch against the predators from the social services.
Mr Pfaff's lab was the first to demonstrate how a female hormone, oestrogen, acts on a rat's brain to produce female mating behaviour, so he might be expected to defend his patch against attacks from the likes of Ms Jordan-Young.
According to Amy Carroll, director of product management for Microsoft's security business and technology unit, four times as many people deployed the recent patch against a Sasser-like worm, compared with Blaster.
To test whether cleaner fish selectively inspected areas of thresher sharks, a log linear model based on a Poisson distribution was used to compare inspections recorded per patch, against the null hypothesis that expected inspections were uniformly distributed across the patches [29], [30].
To statistically verify this trend, we estimated the anterolateral to posteromedial axis of the α' lobe in each recording made near the tip of the α' lobe (see Materials and Methods), and plotted the OSI of each patch against its position along this axis (Fig. 7F; estimated axes are shown by black arrows in Fig. 7A D).
The two Magellanic Clouds are visible to the left of the beam as faint, fuzzy patches against the starry background.
There were patches against Wales when they looked like guys who had only just met up – which they had.
The largest molecular clouds are visible to the naked eye, appearing as dark patches against the brighter background of the Milky Way Galaxy.
There were high hopes for Ukraine's No11 going into the tournament and, while he looked good in patches against Sweden, he didn't really deliver on any sort of sustained level.
They played well in patches against New Zealand, but Scotland was ruthlessly outplayed by the Tri-Nations champions and bedazzled by the outrageous off-loading ability of the giant center Sonny Bill Williams.
