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go against
verb as in counteract
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“A Queen Mother who betrays the Council and goes against the abosom! How horrendously hypocritical.”
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Ultimately, Gray was among just 13 Democrats — six in the House, seven in the Senate — who went against their party to end the shutdown that had dragged on an historic 43 days.
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“I don’t think this ruling is going to go against us.”
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“I don’t think this ruling is going to go against us.”
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Ireland faded late in the dispiriting loss to the All Blacks in Chicago and took 60 minutes to get going against Japan.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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