stand against (someone or something)

They were just in time to see another figure standing against a pedestal near the reclining marble: a breathing blooming girl, whose form, not shamed by the Ariadne, was clad in Quakerish gray drapery; her long cloak, fastened at the neck, was thrown backward from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat backward the white beaver bonnet which made a sort of halo to her face around the simply braided dark-brown hair.

During the evening he had been standing against a bar drinking whiskies and declaring to all comers, confidentially: "My home reg'lar livin' hell!

Somehow, just then the knowledge that I loved her came home to me--and realised that I had loved her from the moment I first saw her standing against the darkness in that glow of light.

I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.

We do a disservice to them if we forget this part of their experience by not standing against anti-semitism, the horrors of the slave labour camps were no less traumatic, there were 30,000 slave labour camps across Europe, so the experience of the Holocaust by our troops would have been widespread.

Referring to the issue of terrorism as a serious problem, Rouhani said the countries in the region that are standing against terrorism, have had great achievements in their fight against the phenomenon.

"Today, the biggest responsibility of the foreign ministry is safeguarding the young seedling of the nuclear deal and standing against the US," he stressed.

'We are at a critical stage, as we are standing against a corrupt prime minister.

'We have no way, but standing against pressures to guarantee our subsistence,' he said.

While reading The Life of John Birch by Robert Welch, I realized that as encouraging as the TNA article "Standing Against Defeat" in the August 24 issue was, it missed dealing with what causes defeatism.

Standing against him is the magnificent Lord Biro of the Bus Pass Elvis Party.

THE NEW head of DIKO Nicolas Papadopoulos who recently beat Marios Garoyian in party elections, has also reinstated the party's former deputy head who was ejected after standing against Garoyian two years ago.

Saeedi says the Islamic Republic holds high the banner of Islam and "is standing against two imperfect forms of Islam.

"Tell me who is not standing against black money and corruption and tell me the name of a single person who would not stand against these," he added.