How To Use Opposed 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
Opposed to this is empirical knowledge, or that which is possible only a posteriori, that is, through experience. The Critique of Pure Reason
Adults who opposed Mussolini were dealt with harshly.
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.
The Seppos found a cure for fiesty natives, opposed to cultural imperialism and resident in heavily afforested regions - they called it Napalm. Cheeseburger Gothic » Just got back from Avatar.
We need to support those Members of Parliament opposed to these new foundation hospitals.
There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
Secular, it opposed deification of any kind, including of a leader like Mao Zedong.
Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses.
Many AIDS activists have opposed home test kits, because they feared people would receive inadequate counseling.
The "aa" means that you hold the vowel sound for two beats as opposed to one. Arabic for Dummies
Directed by Robert Egan, the players are virtually doing solo work as opposed to creating a fluid ensemble.
Those opposed to communism were held back from repatriation, which began in late December 1946.
But this belongs to vainglory, which is opposed to magnanimity, as stated above (Q. 131, A. 2). Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
It has been strongly opposed by many religions which emphasize the sanctity of human life from the day of conception.
The government says it is opposed to paying ransom, but cannot prevent families of victims from making their own arrangements.
Their manager, to her credit, was always strongly opposed to the pay cuts.
Both Texas senators, Phil Gramm and Hutchison, voted against tabling the amendment because they opposed the measures.
For example, he repeatedly says the government never opposed a habeas hearing in Hamdi, but only at the end says that it should have been (and maybe still is?) ok for the government's evidence to be irrebuttable. Balkinization
The Law Society vigorously opposed the restrictive amendment.
A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
In the end, as so often in sport, winner and loser make an opposed pair. Times, Sunday Times
Many people are opposed to the sale of arms on principle.
Otherwise this unknowable is not only compatible with knowledge but is the efficacity of knowledge, perhaps of all possible knowledge, assuming the world is like this (as opposed to the Blakean world). Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
Binationalism, as a general category, need not be equated - as Lama Abu-Odeh equates it - with the specific proposal for a binational state as opposed to a two-state solution.
The pronator radii teres, no longer opposed by the supinator brevis, had rotated the anterior fragment into complete pronation and fixed it there, while the supinator brevis, acting on the upper end, had rotated that fragment in an opposite direction and held it fixed until bony union at the point of fracture had taken place. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
From the corner Farley headed in unopposed at the far post to level things up at 2-2.
It's not customary for people in the publishing industry to ask what readers (as opposed to booksellers or authors or the press) want.
The term agrarianism derived partly from the ancient Roman agrarian law to redistribute property and Thomas Paine's 1797 work, Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly: Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man, By Creating in Every Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
200 attended, as opposed to 300 the previous year.
Does he feel there would be fewer drunk driving convictions if these cases were judged by juries as opposed to a judge?
There is an application for extension of time which I understand is not opposed.
Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme.
Masham Parish Council wanted to add uplighters to the stone bridge over the River Ure at a cost of about £4,500, but the scheme is strongly opposed by North Yorkshire County Council whose officials say it would be illegal.
After the war, he opposed peacetime conscription, denounced British neocolonialism, praised the United Nations, and criticized congressional isolationists.
That is one reason why we have remained opposed to dogmatism toward the theory of Marxism.
Dositheus is said to have opposed antinomianism, that is, the rejection of Old The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
But rather more were strongly opposed. Times, Sunday Times
I don't mean to say that Americans are a nation of superficial, backslapping enjoyers and happy-makers, as opposed to our suffering Slavic souls.
That is very much part of the social bargain whereby writers are "left alone" to implement their craft, as opposed to being harassed or hounded out of existence; they get their NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and everyone is happy since the power equations in society remain undisturbed. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
‘I was opposed to the early release because I couldn't believe somebody capable of doing that could change in only two years,’ said Mrs Murray.
His poetry was his attempt to externalise that inner dialogue, but his obscurity of expression, as opposed to his expression of obscurity, provided a most daunting translative challenge.
Why should it be this emotional scale (as opposed to joy vs. pain, or pride vs. envy) whose expressions are subject to positive-to-negative inversion?
I think this is kind of analagous to an energy tax as opposed to a carbon tax: we don't actually care if people use more energy or eat more seafood. Research Blogging - All Topics - English
Piff, and Mrs. Sniff, was unanimous opposed to her going; for, as they says to Our Missis one and all, it is well beknown to the hends of the herth as no other nation except Britain has a idea of anythink, but above all of business. Mugby Junction
Of course, that all begs the question as to whether the athematic nom. sg. ending *-s and athematic pronominal nom./acc. (better "abs." for absolutive) sg. ending *-d are indeed from postclitic demonstratives/articles, as opposed to coming from some other source(s). Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
Car manufacturers will also have to carry pollution warnings on their advertising, a move they are opposed to. Times, Sunday Times
“You rarely hear Palin criticized for being such a bad governor as opposed to other Republican governors.” Matthew Yglesias » Palin and the Jews
I think I am interested in circulated coins that trade as close to spot as poss, but that clearly have been (and are) real money, as opposed to eagles etc. Silver Bells, Silver Bells,... mmmm silver
All this may look democratic, but in 300 he opposed the admission of plebeians to the two main priestly colleges (pontifices and augures) and on two occasions attempted to secure the election of an all-patrician college.
The Dorian worship of Apollo ..., always opposed to the sad Christian divinities, is the aspiring element, by force and spring of which Greek religion sublimes itself .... The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
Stick to berries and citrus fruit as opposed to sweeter varieties. Times, Sunday Times
I stress the fact that travel (as opposed, perhaps, to tourism) is a non-linear experience, and that travel narratives written in a non-linear way are generally the most engaging.
More generally, it’s the expression to be defined, as opposed to the definiens, which is the phrase doing the defining.beamishQuote The Volokh Conspiracy » Definiendum
I opposed her marriage to Darryl.
But I'm struck by what seems to be a romantic view of the designer as the one who does the typography - as opposed to the one who has the idea.
When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship. Propeller Most Popular Stories
If this technology was implemented in a fuel cell vehicle, it would cost about $200, as opposed to using carbon nanotube tanks (which cost about $5.5 million) or metal hydrides (which cost about $30,000). Chicken Feathers May Fuel Hydrogen Cars in the Future | Inhabitat
I am not opposed to reform.
Against his appeals to observation they opposed dogmatic principles.
Once again at the level of the overkingship, as opposed to the smaller kingdoms, there was no continuity of existence and association with a particular family.
‘Canada does not have bears to spare,’ has become a rallying cry of environmental groups and ordinary citizens in Canada opposed to the plan.
It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops, as opposed to me thrashing my way around a soulless out-of-town shopping centre.
But according to the insta-polls, the electorate, as opposed to what I once called the expectorate, seems to have concluded fairly clearly that Biden "won," possibly because what the electorate was expecting was a debate between two candidates for Vice-President, not the raw materials for some arcane calculation of who exceeded whose expectations. The Richmond Democrat
It was in these vales that the Saxons of the plain and the Gad of the mountains had many a desperate and bloody encounter, in which it was frequently impossible to decide the palm of victory between the mailed chivalry of the low country and the plaided clans whom they opposed. The Fair Maid of Perth
He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
But whatever means they find to perpetrate this assault they must be opposed for the warmongers they are.
A final problem is the specter of human reproductive cloning - to which nearly all voters are opposed.
The bulbs shed white light, as opposed to the old-denture hue of plain old bulbs.
This straight up gamay (as opposed to the Passetougrains) from the strong vintage 2006 has a slight savory note to it as well as wild strawberries. Three light, rewarding reds under $20: Produttori, Pataille, Michaud | Dr Vino's wine blog
I am opposed to turning public monopolies into private monopolies.
But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.
The council re-elected him unopposed as party leader.
I want to emphasize the word suspend as opposed to the word cancel. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
However the state has opposed the defense lawyers 'request, saying giving out details of any work done on the government's behalf will "neutralise" its effect. ANC Daily News Briefing
The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests.
As opposed to the guy who sits in the same spot every day asking for a hand-out, the bum [from the German for "saunter"] roams freely throughout the city, the country, the planet: He is king of the road. Boing Boing
So, try wholemeal rather than white bread and fruit juice as opposed to squash.
Doyle III , speaking at an American Bar Association conference in New Orleans last week, said the New York bar "remains opposed to nonlawyer ownership" but the "idea is worthy of serious consideration. Proceedings | Highlights from the Law Blog
ANC, in the long term, guarantee the best interest of the country as a whole as opposed to the short-term sectional interests devised by the grand Apartheid strategy of the past. Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress
Those opposed to power-sharing wanted an arrangement to maximize the loyalist vote.
Native groups opposed to the plan hope her opposition will help to finally kibosh the project.
A sensible spelling reform as opposed to revolution of English spelling would eliminate the unpredictable pronunciations and the homographic heterophones, making English spellng as usable as French spelling. Today’s “Today” | Linguism
We are firmly opposed to the practice of power politics between nations.
The spirit of American democracy is opposed to elitism.
They shared Chamberlain's passion for efficiency but, unlike him, were in principle opposed to private ownership of the economy.
Melville uses the eyes of the whale to suggest something of the duality of nature as opposed to the Singularity of man.
She seems very much opposed to your going abroad.
He reacted testily to reports that he'd opposed military involvement.
The crux of their argument is that mothering - as opposed to fathering, or parenting, or care giving - is something unique, and of inestimable value.
Every party on the select committee, bar the Labour Party, opposed the bill.
Inattention is both opposed to a discriminate subject/object relationship, and is, at the same time, the realization of a fantasy of indiscrimination.
Its battery lasts 12 hours (as opposed to eight), and is easily changed for a new one when the first runs out.
This chain is connected to a second cylinder, at the upper left, made up of one part of a fusee (placed horizontally as opposed to the traditional fusees that are always vertical), and the other of the cylindrical power reserve indicator (a total of 72 hours). Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives
Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
Wines, particularly wines naturally low in tannins themselves, can taste aggressively tannic after being matured in barrels made from kiln-dried, as opposed to air-dried, wood.
Whites continued to be imprisoned by notions of white supremacy, Mandela said, and by the notion of Afrikaner interests that were separate and opposed to the interests of the rest of the population. ANC Daily News Briefing
Presumably in artistic work, as opposed to lawyering or doctoring, there is a larger element of the unconscious or intuitive.
They drive across the country to his remote log cabin in snowy mountains, bonding along the way despite their implacably opposed positions in the situation.
At right, the redoubt has opposed caponiers or ‘flanking angles’ designed to allow the defenders to fire into the ditches.
This family of reptiles is allied to the living monitor, and its appearance in a primary or paleozoic formation, observes Prof. Owen, is opposed to the doctrine of the progressive development of reptiles from fish, or from simpler to more complex forms; for, if they existed at the present day, these monitors would take rank at the head of the Lacertian order.
I say, I would suppose that this might divert our doctor from casting his eye upon Vedelius, whose defensative would have informed him that these epistles had been opposed as false and counterfeit before ever Salmasius or The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
I'd rather read the reasoned thoughts of someone who has taken the time for self-examination as opposed to attacking others simply for having views that are outside of the mainstream.
But I am completely opposed to quotas for two interconnected reasons. Times, Sunday Times
All the ministers, as well as the Financial Secretary, spoke in supporting the need for the bill, which received its three readings and finally passed unopposed.
Christianity, as opposed to institutionalism, is gaining ground, Individual religious experience as opposed to external authority is becoming "The impregnable rock" of faith. The Only Way to Save Civilization
What struck me as odd was that they had their apertures sealed with a hard calcareous epiphragm as opposed to a membranous one observed in eastern U.S. snails that normally don't experience long dry periods. Archive 2006-06-01
Unitary Because all legislative power stems from Parliament, we have a unitary as opposed to a federal constitution.
Most groups now also suggest localization and subsidiarity as key principles opposed to globalization.
The administration opposed that provision from the start and even threatened to veto the bill over it.
Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up.
Police opposed bail, but the Magistrate agreed to his release on the condition he pay a surety and comply with other bail conditions.
But after 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.
His family were adamantly opposed to the marriage.
Members of extreme right wing parties are completely opposed to the integration of blacks into white South African society.
Any such thing would be bitterly opposed by most of the world's democracies.
And thirdly, despite having always been resolutely opposed to sexism, lookism and shapeism I couldn't get over how ugly the crowd was.
If Mr Howard is unopposed, he will immediately become leader without having to put himself before the party membership.
But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Lynn sees reflexology as a complementary treatment, as opposed to alternative.
In SF circles, this is being seen as another attack on science fiction as subliterary as opposed to paraliterary which is just so awful and mean. Nick Mamatas' Journal
The right-wing pundistas tell us at length why the burgeoning Facebook group opposed to prorogation is irrelevant. Frogs in a pot
Any plans for expanding AmeriCorps (a program he once opposed but now embraces) remain unformulated, perhaps because the idea is too connected to Bill Clinton. The Politics Of Personality
Many residents are opposed to the proposed monument. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, the dominant Anglo-American entente is opposed to colonialization and demands that the natives be paid for the extraction of their natural resources. It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog
The law was bitterly opposed by environmentalists.
The days when you could blunder around all over Europe virtually unopposed have gone, you know! LOHENGRIN
The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.
So a lot of times we have what we refer to as Doppler indicated tornadoes, as opposed to, say, trained storm spotter indicated. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006
Locally, no groups have formally opposed the measure.
The Irish Hospitality Industry Alliance, an umbrella group made up of publicans opposed to the ban, says many family-run pubs in the south won't be in business this time next year.
If they are part of a dynastic bloodline then why is the Princess opposed to them?
Most ascomycetes have only two different mating types, as opposed to certain other fungi, in which many more mating types exist.
By 1216 the castle was sufficiently strong to withstand a siege by forces opposed to King John.
The term "Afrocentric" means exactly what the name implies, "African centered" as opposed to the Eurocentric foundation on which westerncivilization was built. Afrocentrism for Dummies (and other Conservatives)
Prominent anti-abortion activists in the party had opposed the resolution, because it might prove embarrassing.
Among other things, he switched responsibility for approving genetically modified crops from the Directorate General for the Environment, which funds antitechnology nongovernmental organizations and has long opposed such crops, to the Directorate General for Health, which has a more neutral record. Unprincipled 'Precaution'
For one thing, it appears that Schaller is using a much narrower definition of "dynastic" -- he counts only those with family members in Congress as opposed to, say, Governorships or other high political officials; clearly, if the son of a Governor is elected to the U.S. Salon
Many parents and teachers at St. George's were opposed but reluctantly agreed to the study after a presentation by Owens, whose daughter was a junior there. Teens Benefit From Later School Day, More Sleep
This regime is a rare example of a tyranny that has been consistently, constantly opposed by the United States.
Ninety per cent of the 162 submissions opposed the nationwide introduction of e-voting as currently envisaged.
The Protestant Reformation enlisted widespread lay support by its politically motivated aversion to the monastic ideal, which lay anticlericals opposed as absorbing too much wealth in support of its institutions.
The late Senator Kennedy also vehemently opposed the Cape Wind project, in part because the Kennedys, known as avid sailors, own a family compound that looks onto the project sight. Ben Carmichael: Congratulations, America. You Passed Wind.
He is also reorienting acquisition policy toward individual works, as opposed to the absorption of entire collections, which typically arrive with strings attached.
Physical as opposed to intangible assets in businesses in advanced economies such as Ireland's are reducing in importance.
They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers.
When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
There is an even greater need for good advice, particularly away from the headlines, in agreed as opposed to hostile transactions.
In mathematics, Newton was the first to develop a full range of algorithms for symbolically determining what we now call integrals and derivatives, but he subsequently became fundamentally opposed to the idea, championed by Leibniz, of transforming mathematics into a discipline grounded in symbol manipulation. Isaac Newton
Yet he realized that were Henry to be entrusted with the regency he would change in the most radical fashion the course of the ship of state; would introduce measures dear to the late Emperor Frederick, but to which he, the kaiser, was unalterably opposed, and would, in short, undo everything that he himself had done; so that when eventually the crown prince came of age there would be no longer any possibility of his continuing his father's policy, a policy which the emperor has been at great pains to inculcate into his boy. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
And where are the political thinkers, as opposed to the apparatchiks?
The flowers commonly have more or less recurved petals, and usually face outward or upward (as opposed to drooping).
Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
‘Such a loss of localised services must be opposed because people currently served by those hospitals to be downgraded will obviously suffer,’ he said.
In the words of one of its founders, noetic science is concerned with subjective experience as opposed to materialistic science (which is essentially interested in objective experience).
The Dutch are angry at the price rises that accompanied the loss of the guilder and the launch of the euro, hostile towards the new east European members from last year's big-bang enlargement, and opposed to Turkey joining the union.
He has supported open prisons and opposed unnecessarily draconian anti-terrorism laws.
As opposed to the jingoist neocons who want to export the wonders of American capitalism, abortion, liberalism, and Starbucks all over the face of the earth. Matthew Yglesias » All Presidents Engage With Tyrants
The paper company initially attempted to introduce a capital-intensive cable yarding logging system near Atepec in 1958, but the community opposed this system, which relied upon outside labor to manage the machinery.
Considering how opposed many conservative Christians are even to soft-core pornography (at least publicly!), I find it hard to fathom how a soi-disant conservative Christian can legitimately justify posing for titillating photographs with the goal of material and professional gain in mind — and especially not while technically still a minor (Prejean was not yet eighteen when she chose to pose for the topless photographs). Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
The preference for directives as opposed to regulations for environmental matters has also been repeatedly expressed.
Beth's priority is the quality of her song-writing as opposed to the number of units sold.
Behe is clear that he does not take the Fall or any “what happened when” part of Genesis as opposed to the “thou shalts” literally, and not one other DI fellow to my knowledge has publicly disagreed with him. Two analyses of Meyer's "Signature in the Cell" - The Panda's Thumb
Sir W. Foster opposed any attempt to prevent the public from buying cheap food so long as it was wholesome.
We refer here not only to the daily shootings, the bestialities inflicted on demonstrators and detainees and the vicious campaign of terror carried out against all who are opposed to the apartheid system - churchmen, whole religious communities, students, professors and teachers, workers, peasants, mothers and even children. WE HAVE DECIDED TO LIBERATE OURSELVES
The planned nuclear shipment is being opposed by nations along its route, and could be greeted by a flotilla of protest boats in the Irish Sea.
The Me 262 had to prove its value in actual combat as opposed to fly-pasts in front of an invited audience.
Many residents are opposed to the proposed monument. Times, Sunday Times
Subsequent studies have found that concept maps facilitated meaningful learning as opposed to rote learning.
I love the parallel nuttiness of the denotations and the curiously balanced and opposed vowel sounds that follow.
One poll in September 1991 found small pluralities in Moscow and large cities opposed to the transfer to Russia of territories in other republics where Russians predominated the Crimea, Donbass, and Northern Kazakhstan were mentioned; in small towns and rural areas, the votes for and against such annexations were equal. The Return
No doubt this is a felicitous emendation, though I think it may be fairly objected that a rumourer, being one who deals in what he hears, as opposed to an observer, who reports what he sees, there is a certain inappropriateness in speaking of a rumourer's eyes. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Beijing, meanwhile, opposed any effort to "internationalize" the issue. North Korea threatens nuclear response to U.S.-South Korea military exercises
Aunt Mary's a real conservative.She's totally opposed to women going out to work.
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty.
More specifically, it was the daughters, as opposed to spouse carers, who were upset by the reduced social contact.
There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
Any item that comes from a chiller cabinet, as opposed to a freezer, tin or packet, has an instant cachet, an aura of freshness and superiority about it.
The Greeks did believe that the soul could be immortal, but they would have been opposed to the notion of the immortality of the body.
That is strongly opposed by western governments because of the threat to free speech. Times, Sunday Times
I drove along the same route only this time I past the larger intersection at T. C. Jester where I know Lucy hardly ever comes to a complete stop; doing what I call a shuffle as opposed to a legal complete stop. T F Stern's Rantings
In general, phenomenism is opposed to substantialism, and it is supposed that those who do not accept the former doctrine must accept the latter, while, on the contrary, those who reject substantialism must be phenomenists. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
The Stalinists opposed any struggle by the working class for its independent interests and created widespread political disorientation.
Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal.
Hmmm… minidiscs are actually magnetic media, although they're digital, as opposed to conventional cassette tapes, which are analogue.
The quantitative character of the interaction between opposed inhibition and excitation is experimentally demonstrable. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
And I think that defense is the key word as opposed to what I would describe as nation-building. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Iago himself is opposed to the gallantries and polite talk of Cassio, especially in regard to Desdemona.
It's refreshing to hear an artist sing the pros as opposed to crying the cons of piracy on the Net.
Now, over 30 years later, some of the people I remember as uneasily inactive (or were they inactively uneasy?) will tell you how they opposed the war.
Car manufacturers will also have to carry pollution warnings on their advertising, a move they are opposed to. Times, Sunday Times
This revolutionary change has, not surprisingly, been opposed by many elements that are recalcitrant, those who remain obedient to dogma, to tradition and the heavy legacy of past conditioning. The Continuing Controversy on Abortion
But he is a traditionalist and is said to have opposed the constitutional changes which reduced the role of the monarch to that of a ceremonial head of state.

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