The Whigs clamour so much against Johnson, that they are regarded,- -at least for a time.
It was with great reluctance that I brought myself to ask this: you took no notice of my request; and I flattered myself that I was punished for having applied to you so much against my inclination.
And if hypocrites be not hateful to you, why do you cry out so much against hypocrites (where you cannot prove your accusation)?
For if you do, it will engage you to draw in others; you will expect your friends should take your part, and think as you think, and say as you say; though it be never so much against truth or righteousness.
So is the great opposition that God hath made against sin, having said and done so much against it, and declared himself to hate nothing else immediately in the world.
Fasting and labour will do much against lust, which idleness and fulness continually feed.
Did you think that you had been patrons of idleness, and silencers of ministers, while you declaim so much against it?
The balance of trade with Great Britain is much against us; and by carrying to Portugal and Spain what we send to them, we should receive cash in return.
I consider the difference of ten cents to be too small for contention; the arguments of the gentlemen in opposition go as much against a duty of forty cents as against fifty.
In this latter Acceptation of the Phrase, it is no great Wonder People err so much against it, since it is not every one who is possessed of it, and there are fewer, who against common Rules and Fashions, dare obey its Dictates.
Some men, as I said before, dare do anything, let the Word of God be never so much against it; but they that tremble at the Word dare not do so.
How comes contesting for water baptism to be so much against you?
Hence the prophets of old used to be called madmen, and the world would reply against their doctrine, Wherein have we been so wearisome to God, and what have we spoken so much against Him?
I have just escaped from a very disagreeable company I was obliged, so much against my will, to be in.
What can you have to say to me since last night, that I went with you so much against my will to the play?
But yet I should be driven into such a tacit acknowledgement to any new persons, till I am so, although I have been led (so much against my liking) to give countenance to the belief of the persons below that we are married.
You have made some people, much against my liking, think me a wife: others know I am not married; nor do I desire any body should believe I am: Do you think your being here in the same house with me can be to my reputation?
It was fierce, and full of purpose; but the purpose might have been as much against himself as against another.
I am as much against deeds of violence being done to seafaring men, as seafaring men can be themselves.
Varnum has, much against my wishes, removed Randolph from the Ways and Means and appointed Campbell, of Tennessee.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
