Sentence examples for sending against from inspiring English sources

Just like he's using more drones than the Bushies ever contemplated sending against their enemies – and civilians.

Perhaps, as Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to Washington, has proposed in the Financial Times, Moscow should be told that if it cannot get its clients to observe a ceasefire, the West would have no option but to give the Ukrainians the anti-tank and other weapons its soldiers need to counter the armour Russia's proxies are now sending against them.

They can lay the groundwork for a potential compromise over a different candidate to lead the new agency and, they hope, they can increase their chances of reclaiming Mr. Brown's seat by sending against him a woman who has won considerable acclaim and popularity among liberals for taking on the financial industry.

In 544 Belisarius was sent against him with inadequate forces.

Alexander smashed every army sent against him, slaughtering thousands.

In 1780 he helped defeat a British expedition sent against the Spanish settlement at St. Louis.

They were the latest in a wave of women sent against civilian targets in the area.

The serious effort began in 182, when both consular armies and a proconsular army were sent against the Ligurians.

An ambitious sportswriter in Georgia, Ronda Rich was sent against her will to cover a stock car race in 1983.

Later in the day, Adams's brigade was one of the units sent against the famous "Hornet's Nest," a scene of particularly bloody fighting.

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