go against

VERB
  1. resist
    buck the trend
  2. fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
    This sentence violates the rules of syntax
  3. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
    offend all laws of humanity
    break a law
    violate the basic laws or human civilization
    break a promise
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How To Use go against In A Sentence

  • If you go against nature, it will punish you.
  • Teenagers often go against the stream.
  • Oblique culinary references and obscure terms go against the grain of the present climate in the culinary world.
  • Because keeping Love locked up within ourselves is to go against the spirit of God, it proves that we never knew Him, that He loved us in vain, and that His Son died to no avail. Blog De Ganz | Archive | September
  • Appeals generally don't go against the linesman or referee and they can be looked at in so many different ways. The Sun
  • What they do with their hair beggars belief - dye, hairpieces, extensions - anything to go against nature.
  • The president said he would not go against sound military doctrine.
  • How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing?
  • At the same time, he vowed that his government would continue to push for the lifting of what he called the "anachronistic" and "discriminatory" arms embargo against China. Daimnation!: The most amoral democracy on earth
  • First, their book provides an up-close look at people who have deliberately and self-consciously chosen to go against conventional norms about work hours.
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