Sentence examples for ramp against from inspiring English sources

See how the great ramp against inheritance tax is gearing up again: the London Evening Standard has just warned "Half the capital's properties now caught in death duty trap" – not true for couples.

When a force is present, it causes the ball to roll up the ramp, against its intrinsic tendency (being at rest).

In the first example, the intrinsic state of the ball (agonist) is at rest (i.e., not moving up or down the ramp), but when the wind (antagonist) blows in the direction of the ramp, it provides enough force or pressure to move the ball up the ramp (against its intrinsic state at rest).

During a press call on Wednesday, a senior Obama administration official was asked whether or not the President had the authority to direct the military operations he has already begun and plans to ramp up against the Islamic State — generally referred to as ISIL by the White House.

Related: Guinea Ramps Up Fight Against Ebola as Outbreak Continues to Burn.

To most people, the area under the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge, in the shadows of the off ramps and against the hulking stone structure of the famous East River crossing, is not a place to stop.

How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?

Once the shrimp ramp rears, magnificent! against the darkness of the civic mind, details, like feasibility, will sort themselves.

Just as the Internal Revenue Service is getting into its perennial tax-season tough talk, Justice Department officials weighed in Tuesday with a vow to ramp up efforts against "tax defiers".

It comes in the wake of the downed Malaysian airliner in Ukraine and as the U.S. and the European Union seek to ramp up sanctions against Russia, offering the administration a convenient time to release the report which had been due to come out in April.

The president of the teachers' union, Randi Weingarten, has come out against Ramp Up, and the city's preparations for the summer training sessions got off the ground late -- one high school administrator said he received a fax "at 5 39 p.m. on the last day of school" urging him to round up teachers to take part.