Sentence examples for raft against from inspiring English sources

Manpower (1941) pitted two power-company workers (Edward G. Robinson and Raft) against each other for the prize of a café hostess (Marlene Dietrich), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941), which starred Errol Flynn as a highly sanitized George Armstrong Custer, completed an extraordinary year for Walsh.

On 14 April Shackleton recorded the nearby pack "piling and rafting against the masses of ice"—if the ship was caught in this disturbance "she would be crushed like an eggshell".

Moreover, the Obama administration has been preparing a raft of sanctions against companies and individuals in China guilty of cyber-espionage attacks against U.S. targets.

Already, Mr Ghani and Dr Abdullah are preparing a raft of complaints against Dr Rassoul.

The 17-count indictment accused him of a raft of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and extermination.

Mr. Foley said he expected to present a raft of charges against Mr. Phillips, including first-degree aggravated murder, to a grand jury.

In the immediate future, Palestinian leaders have made clear they plan to go with a raft of cases against Israel to the international criminal court.

By lifting sanctions against North Korea, Japan will find itself out of step with the UN, which has imposed a raft of sanctions against the regime since it conducted its first nuclear test in 2006.

Their weekend may have made her aware of the self-deception at the heart of her vision of some perfect relationship, but that's still her life raft, her stay against larger, harsher truths.

It too is examining the undercover infiltration of the Lawrence campaign as part of the raft of allegations against the undercover officers, stretching from the use of sexual relationships to gain intelligence to the use of fake identities in court.

But how those tips are shared has become an increasingly contentious issue in the industry, stoking resentments among some workers and prompting a recent raft of lawsuits against some of New York's most lauded dining rooms.