His theatricality was held against him.
The hearing was held against the backdrop of a debate about overhauling financial regulation.
His timing was held against him even more than his dissent.
"I can't breathe," the man can be heard saying several times, before he was held against a wall and punched.
Trollope's facility was held against him, and so was his popularity with a middle-class reading public.
The Washington meeting was held against a backdrop of controversy over military set backs in in Syria.
One day, he said, he was held against a bunk by guards and one of his thumbs was bent back and dislocated.
February 2006: Girl A tells police she was held against her will by two Asian men, who made her snort cocaine and left her unconscious.
That Hughes could recover from that, and go on to have a stable life, was held against him: he was somehow not playing the game.
Then Mr. Christie explained the case of the nurse, Kaci Hickox, who returned after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and was held against her will in 2014.
Umm Sayyaf "knew how Mueller was treated by Baghdadi when Mueller was held against her will in Sayyaf's home", according to the Justice Department statement on Monday.
