Sentence examples for were taught against from inspiring English sources

They were taught against us.

"As children, we were taught against secular music, but for some reason they would let us watch 'Hee Haw' and 'The Grand Ole Opry,' " he said.

Gates, who is English, ended up studying at Newcastle University, where marine-science classes are taught against the backdrop of the North Sea.

Jason Matthews Edgarr award-winning book centres on a state intelligence officer named Dominika Egorova, who is taught against her will to use sex as a weapon in her role as a post-Soviet intelligence "sparrow".

"It goes against everything we were taught in medical school, everything we've always told our patients," he says.

This goes against everything you were taught and have been conditioned to believe.

This goes against everything you were taught in PSHE and have been conditioned to believe.

'It would go against the views which were taught to me throughout my earlier education.'.

Tens of thousands of army conscripts and police recruits are taught that violence against women is bad.

The backstroke racing start is both explosive and elegant: swimmers are taught to crouch against the pool wall, fists clenched around the metal handles of the starting blocks, before springing up out of the water and backward into the air.

Having cash on you, I was taught, was protection against the unknown.