goes against
Antonyms
Examples
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. quoted by Og Mandino.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.