In some respects, modernists would even come to define themselves against crowd-pleasing populism.

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It all depends on how you define votes against.

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The 1991 Persian Gulf War provided something of a baseline for defining the threat against which to define the characteristics of an MRC-capable force.

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You must define your career strategy with just as much focus as Pepsi does when competing against Coke.

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Determine how you would define your ideal next step, both professionally and personally, and weigh your unexpected offer against the prospects exactly where you are.

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Barack Obama survived a presidential election against a weak opponent despite an underwhelming legislative record and his own failure to define the choice in positive terms.

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India's current law prohibits acts against a woman intended to "outrage her modesty, " but doesn't define specific behaviors that are off limits.

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His relationship with Fox has been uniquely fraught almost from the start, for reasons that probably have something to do with the advertiser boycott against him, and even more to do with the way his antics at times seem to define the network, often for the worse.

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