Sentence examples for subject against from inspiring English sources

In addition, the judges were expected to protect the subject against the executive.

As the artist has observed, rebellion is often fixated by the subject against which it rebels.

He posed each subject against a neutral background and tried to use natural northern light.

He added that where he grew up, in Scotland, attitudes were similar; he took a degree in the subject against the advice of his father.

Again and again, the cinematographer, Frederick Elmes ("Blue Velvet"), isolates a subject against a bland background, and brushes past appearances, peering into his unconscious.

Most notably, it held a formative conference on rape in the spring of 1971, spearheaded by Susan Brownmiller, who would publish her classic book on the subject, "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape," in 1975.

Unlike Avedon, who shoots his subjects against blank backgrounds, her emphasis is almost completely on context.

There he snapped his subjects against a white backdrop, encouraging them to flaunt their outrageous brand of chic.

He photographed those subjects against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Mexico City, caught between modernity and the reminders of indigenous civilizations.

The so-called Cycle of the Revolted Knights groups those poems that tell of revolts of feudal subjects against the emperor (Charlemagne or, more usually, his son, Louis).

In June, schools minister Nick Gibb defended the government's "emphasis on academic subjects" against the accusation that the introduction of the EBacc "crowds out" the study of other important subjects, particularly the arts.