set off against in a sentence

An Israeli army spokesman in Jerusalem said a soldier was moderately wounded when a roadside bomb was set off against an Israeli force operating in armored vehicles.
Bertolli called the dish " a study in tomato counterpoint, " with the milder Yellow Pear and Ivory Pear varieties set off against the winelike sweet 100s.
Set off against Martel's book is Perri O'Shaughnessy's Writ of Execution ( Delacorte, $ 24 . 95 ), set largely in the casino world of Lake Tahoe.
WBadysBaw probably witnessed this, because he was along with the King on an expedition to cross Lithuania, for which he was set off against the Teutonic Order.
The drive is over the braided branches of dwarf pines to a straightaway fairway with the tapering bunkers down both sides set off against dark, encircling pines.

The exemplary characters and behaviours of good kings such as Eir�kr the Good ( d . 1103 ), are set off against those of incompetent or evil kings.
There is a system of onshore pooling, so that overseas tax suffered in high tax territories may be set off against taxable income arising from low tax territories.
This was revolutionary and ran counter to the wisdom of economists, who assumed that environmental standards could be set off against other considerations once they had been priced.
In our minds, he's set off against Shane, one particularly good, almost too good to be true, and the other is totally evil . " ( MORE ) nn
Set off against the melee of pickup bars is a model couple that wait until their _ gasp _ third date to have sex and then start living together.

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