Sentence examples for undertook against from inspiring English sources

Both sides are likely to want to avoid the decade-long case the commission undertook against Microsoft, which ended up paying $2 billion in penalties and fines.

Pereira first started considering his future towards the end of August in the aftermath of Oliver Burke's £13m transfer to RB Leipzig, a deal Hasawi undertook against Montanier's wishes.

William H. Luers, president of the United Nations Association of the United States, the leading citizen-support group for the organization, said that Mr. Annan's ability to "keep cool" had made a difference as he tried to rebuild good relations with Washington, a campaign he undertook against the advice of some of his advisers and a number of governments.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Representative Donald M. Payne of New Jersey, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Africa, narrowly escaped a mortar attack on Monday as he was ending a visit to Mogadishu, Somalia's bullet-ridden capital, that he undertook against the advice of the Obama administration.

"Twenty-five years from now the war we undertook against al-Qaeda won't seem nearly as important as the wars we waged against physics and math," the authors declare, and then they catalogue all the ways in which America has, in the interim, slipped behind the rest of the rich world.

Over that time, many fewer operations were undertaken against Shiite militants.

Mr. Blair's new mission of solidarity with the United States is being undertaken against a different background than last time.

But he suspects that at Thatcher's insistence a campaign of reprisals was undertaken against INLA leaders.

It was the highest profile killing Israel has undertaken against militants in the coastal strip in several months.

The preliminary inquiry undertaken against a 29-year-old man concerning preparation of a hijacking on Aug. 29, 2002, in Vaesteraas has been closed.

Also beginning in 843, campaigns undertaken against the Slavs in Greece and against the Arabs in Asia Minor, the Aegean, and the Nile Delta met with some success.