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How to use dead set in a sentence

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But are conservatives, and nonliberals generally, really dead set against popular culture?
But can she fight the conservatives in Congress who are dead set against spending money on the arts?
Officials say the finance minister is dead set against large-scale borrowing.
Silvia Cattori: According to you, why so many journalists were so dead set against you?
It seemed it was ground over the grass and dead set against us by clapping its sharp beak with a colour of orange.
Some important elements within my own caucus and wider party were dead set against any coalition with either the Liberals or the Conservatives.
While he was quite comfortable telling us all about it, his wife was dead set against it.
Madison was dead set against it, partly on the grounds that his state of Virginia would be a big loser in any such assumption.
Village leaders are dead set against the scheme to build houses at Lodge Hill, off Main Street, but planning officials want their objections overruled.
They are dead set against compatriots from the north, south and abroad meeting together to talk about reunification.
The problem is that some powerful lobby groups seem dead set against new technologies just because they are new, and promoted by private industry.
The principal and her toadies made it seem that our opinions were important and that the reorganisation would not happen if we were dead set against it.
Anyway, before you can have a female Pope you must first provide for the ordination of women to the priesthood, and the present Pope is dead set against that.
Key investors were dead set against giving away the patent rights.
I come from a province in which our police association is dead set against the registry and for good reason.
Back then, the immigration critic and member for Calgary-Nose Hill was dead set against such an idea.
As with previous surveys, teachers were dead set against standardized testing.
At the time the surgeon gave me the option of having the growth removed, but I was dead set against unnecessary surgery.
The developing countries were dead set against the tariff cuts requested in the NAMA text.
The judge at the dog show took points off the Irish setter's dead set because its right ear twitched a few times.
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Mamma is dead set against the artistic, and I'm dead set against the fashionable.
I think that the man is at a dead set who has got through a knot-hole or gateway where his sledge load of furniture cannot follow him.
He's dead set on Clara goin' for service and she wants to be a typewriter.
Moreover, all the French here are, and always have been, dead set on Asia.
They are dead set against England, and claim to belong to France.
He got her dead set on him and his stories, that's what he gets for 'em!
The dead set against him extended from the Fifth Form downwards.
Nobody knows why they are so dead set against letting any one through.
Nobody refused, not even General Dow, who is so dead set against foraging.
Every man of us was dead set against abandoning the buffalo range.
He saw plainly enough that Lady Arabella was making a dead set at his master, and he was watchful of the slightest sign of anything which might enhance this knowledge.
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