Sentence examples for set against one another from inspiring English sources

This time, after the first wave of the virus seems to have run its course, the focus is on families and comrades split apart and set against one another by paranoia, moral confusion and the endless conflict between the survival instinct and the call of duty.

In the late 1970s and 80s, Williams was seen as the mirror image of Margaret Thatcher, women being always set against one another.

Is a single authoritarian government better for its citizens than a dozen city-states set against one another in perpetual civil war?

Two contrasting melodic ideas are set against one another.

The late romances, with their shifts in time and surprising turns of plot, inspired a last poetic style in which long and short sentences are set against one another, clauses are piled up, subject and object are reversed, and words are omitted, creating an effect of spontaneity.

A narrow bed, unmade, is set against one wall.

She writes in longhand, which she later transfers to a computer at an impossibly small desk set against one wall.

Her cerulean bowl ($52) cries out to be filled with Bing cherries and set against one of the cranberry-toned hem-stitched linen place mats ($30) with a stripey cobalt glass.

A statue at a racecourse is clearly a minor issue when set against one that affects almost every race staged in Britain but, if Edward Gillespie, Cheltenham's managing director, had refused to admit Reichardt's sculpture to racecourse premises, it would have been a gift to Animal Aid and its tiny but very vocal band of fanatical supporters.

The restaurant was small, with three two-person tables set against one wall, and two large tables, with seats for about ten each, against the other.

The 2017 edition took place in an American school, with this court set against one of the most stunning backdrops I've ever photographed.