Sentence examples for told against from inspiring English sources

Loaded often with malice, his jokes told against his enemies but also lost him friends.

Since he joined the government ten months ago, his inexperience has told against him: his popularity has plummeted.

Irish, with 12 of their 35-man squad unfit, suffered two further injury blows and that ultimately told against them.

In addition, sampling is an area where the concentration of the music industry has told against retailers.

Pepys excluded nothing from his journal that seemed to him essential, however much it told against himself.

She was reticent before the Athens Games, an attitude which eventually told against her as expectations remained high.

The intricate plot popular taste then demanded now tells against the novel.

Saturday's victors deserve credit for being the exceptions and making their abilities tell against Everton.

There is another story that he used to tell against himself.

The long-standing weaknesses of Blair's position began to tell against him, as we always knew they would.

But Congress coupled his privilege to be a witness with the right to have a failure to exercise the privilege not tell against him.