oppose

How To Use oppose In A Sentence

• And there are a lot of so-called federalists, people who are just generally opposed to the extension of federal power and who object, who say look, this is the same thing that we objected to when liberals did it. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005
• In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
• This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
• Adults who opposed Mussolini were dealt with harshly.
• Congress is continuing to oppose the President's healthcare budget.
• Gates oversaw last year's troop surge in Iraq, which Mr. Obama opposed.
• Its plans are likely to be fiercely opposed by residents, conservation groups and some environmentalists concerned at the impact on the landscape. Times, Sunday Times
• This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
• Your brand of beer, the artwork on your walls, your choice of dog - a pure-bred poodle as opposed to a mutt - are all potential status details.
• Definitions of what was at stake were thus diametrically opposed.