Sentence examples for solidity against from inspiring English sources

Patience and clinical finishing are regarded by France as key tools against Italy, and their solidity against Portugal encourages them.

After failing to win their four previous matches – including a home loss to Caen last week – Marcelo Bielsa's players put on a performance of attacking verve and defensive solidity against a poor Toulouse side who were overrun from the start.

Jokanovic had put a priority on solidity against Birmingham and the team were generally tighter and more energetic – but eventually they conceded when the big Dan Burn allowed himself to be beaten to a header by Michael Morrison.

While Ten deals with dark subject matter, it has almost been universally considered to be a high-water mark of the early 1990s alternative rock sound, with Vedder's unusually deep and strong (and later much-imitated) voice alternating between solidity and vibrato against the unrestrained, guitar-heavy, hard rock sound that drew influence from Led Zeppelin and other rock bands of the 1970s.

He was fascinated by how the mosaic fragmentation of the trencadis played against the solidity of architectural form, dissolving its stability.

Leaders of all political stripes articulated doubts about the solidity of the case against Mr. Andreotti and, in some cases, about the credibility of the Italian judicial system, which has often been accused of bias and political crusading.

Mr. Uglow always played the physical solidity of his efforts against their optical radiance, thickening his stretcher bars so that his paintings protruded farther from the wall, hanging his works close to the ground or even simply leaning them, set on tiny blocks, against a wall.

His superb but tightly limited breaks on the snare and his famously rapid double strokes on the bass drum are constantly played against the unvarying solidity of his high hat, which keeps a steady single beat throughout the bars.

This was all just enthusiasm, a disease of the die-hard, an ephemeral wash that would break against the brute solidity of political fact.

United will be underdogs for next week's second leg, but a performance that showed much more solidity than in recent home humiliations against Liverpool and Manchester City at least keeps them in the tie.

On the other hand, the very solidity of that framework has militated against responding to a pandemic which has no respect for strategic timetables.