Phrasal Verb Fun

set against
Agatha wanted to go to university but her father was set against it, so she

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started work as a hairdresser.
Against
always has the idea of 'confrontation'
Nearly always used in the passive, to be set against something means to
be determined against it. Remember that set means 'difficult to undo'.
Fixed expression. No problem.
To set someone against somebody else means to persuade them that
they have an enemy.
It was a sad and familiar story. His parents divorced when Orlando was
young and he had to spend part of each week with his mother, and the
weekends with his father. They each tried to set him against the other.
This verb always has the form SET one person AGAINST another.