How to Use as against in a Sentence

as against

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• The keys for the Dodgers are the same as against the Padres and Mets.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• The treatment is effective against fleas in all life stages, as well as against several types of ticks.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 13 Feb. 2023
• Local buyers are bidding against one another, as well as against investors.
  — Wsj Noted., WSJ, 21 May 2021
• But the Colts have a tendency to play their best in games where they are counted out, such as against Arizona last year.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
• This is helpful, because that gentleman and his equipment are easy to overlook as against the basilica’s mighty bulk.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Boutros considered those action as against Ohio’s Sunshine Law.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• Also as against Alcaraz, Griekspoor faded in that tiebreak with two poor backhand errors and the match faded with him.
  — James Hansen, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
• The cleric, who positions himself as against both Iran and the United States, is immensely popular.
  — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 30 July 2022
• This is higher than the four buyouts that happened during the same period last year, and more focused on consumer-facing ed-tech, as against business-to-business online training firms last year.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 2 Sep. 2020
• The vaccines do work against the variants, but not quite as well as against the original version of the coronavirus, suggesting that people may need to get booster shots, Ranney said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• Privacy claims have been made against these as well as against dress and hair codes for schoolchildren and laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets; claims may one day be expected over the right to use a car without a seat belt.
  — Paul Bender, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Only 5 percent of Republicans approve of how Biden handled that, as against 71 percent of Democrats.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• In any international conflict where there is a debate over the value of conciliation as against the use of force, the same name recurs over and again with monotonous inevitability.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2022
• Narrowing the field of potential investments for reasons that are (in whole or in part) non-financial must increase the chance of underperformance as against a strategy free of such restrictions.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• Next, the researchers put their system to the test against an experienced surgeon who had performed more than 900 surgeries, as well as against nine volunteers with no surgical experience.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2022
• Winona Ryder’s options so much as against the movie, sensing a cynical attempt to capture the youth market, a major studio romanticizing indie credibility.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• Urban consumers will have to wait for 25 days between LPG bookings as against 21 days earlier, while households in rural areas need to wait 45 days.
  — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
• This was something that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly ruled out as against his country’s constitution.
  — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
• Does a teenager really operate such that a six-game suspension prospect as against a one-game suspension prospect (the NCS policy) tips the scale in his psyche in favor of exercising self-restraint?
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
• Some 30 percent of Europeans report having no savings whatsoever, as against 16 percent of Americans.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Apr. 2022
• In the weeks that followed, more and more mud would be slung against the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as against scientists who held alternative policy views, and favored more and stronger restrictions.
  — Vinay Prasad, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
• NDAs are described by economic development officials as necessary and criticized by data center opponents as against the public interest.
  — Tom Kertscher, jsonline.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• Speaking after a defense council meeting, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the anti-smuggling office will be redesigned next year to work in the same way as against drug traffickers.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2021
• Ideally, Amorim wants his centre-backs to be aggressive in winning possession but perhaps, as against Slot, there is merit in defying the expectations of a rival manager, and instead staying compact in a low block.
  — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
• French national-security officials are seeking to build resiliency against that threat—including against hybrid warfare of sabotage, cyberattack, and assassination—as well as against Islamist terrorism, which has struck their country repeatedly.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
• The group market capitalization was $156 billion early Friday, as against $235 billion on the eve of Hindenburg’s report in January 2023.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025