Sentence examples for tickets against from inspiring English sources

In plush times, the Chicago Bulls forcefully pushed season tickets, against the day when Mr. Jordan would depart.

"One of the biggest mistakes I made was the pricing of these tickets against the good advice of some very smart Broadway people," he said at the time.

The study compared each driver's experience in the months after receiving a ticket with the same driver's record in later months; it did not compare drivers who received tickets against drivers who had not been ticketed.

They had posters outside advertising tickets against Carlisle, Accrington Stanley and Newport County, yet Liverpool were given a genuine fright by a club with a player in attack known as "Beast" and a queue of officials getting their pre-match grub in the greasy spoon, Fat Boy's, just round the corner.

DreamWorks says its films generate an average of $85 million in U.S. theater tickets against an average cost of $55 million per film, compared with a box office of $43 million and an average cost of $48 million or so for the rest of Hollywood.

Back in carriage 17, a young train attendant named Zulpikhar is checking tickets against IDs.

James Blaine, senator from Maine, headed the G.O.P. ticket against Grover Cleveland of New York for the Democrats.

This boost also coincides with the post-convention surge enjoyed by the Gore-Lieberman ticket against their Republican rivals, Gov. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Calculating the cost of a potential ticket against the likelihood that he would get one, Becker chose to take the risk.

This year Americans Elect, a movement to field a bipartisan presidential ticket against the main nominees, was well on its way to getting on the ballot in all 50 states.

Prabowo Subianto, another former general who has freely admitted to being involved in the military abduction of pro-democracy activists in the dying days of the Suharto regime, ran for vice president on another ticket against Mr. Yudhoyono in 2009.