Sentence examples for tending against from inspiring English sources

He said that he found "compelling" the large number of responses arguing "that the factors tending against prosecution should focus more on the suspect than on the individual who committed suicide".

Although there was sufficient evidence to bring a prosecution, Mr Starmer explained, he did not deem it to be in the public interest.Under the code for prosecutors, "a prosecution will usually take place unless there are public-interest factors tending against prosecution which clearly outweigh those in favour".

In contrast to his actual plans, Hitler's concept of stalling – in combination with his frustration with a Japan embroiled in seemingly endless negotiations with the United States, and tending against a war with the USSR – led to a temporary cooperation with the Soviets in the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, which was signed in August 1939.

We've come to consider most of these barbaric, unjust or wildly impractical, but their very existence should tend against the idea that settling with criminals by putting them in a building is a natural thing to do.

These days, German politicians tend to run against the U.S. and win.

Trump said he was a Mexican, and therefore would hate him and tend to rule against him in a case brought against Trump University for fraud.

"That's why we tend to win against these other companies when we bid against them," he said.

It is often said that people tend to underinsure against large risks (like disability) and overinsure against small risks (like losing a contact lens).

Over the years, far from weakening, the yuan has tended to strengthen against the dollar, as it indeed it has against other currencies.

Nations tend to unite against outside aggression.

"People tended to react against it.