Example sentences of "[noun pl] in opposition to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers , university professors and students have provided much of the intellectual leadership for the political organizations in opposition to the regime . |
| 2 | Two conferences in August sought to unite workers with enterprise directors in opposition to the government 's economic reform policy . |
| 3 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 4 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 5 | Some of these groups , for example the popular fronts , soon developed overt political aims in opposition to the CPSU . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1970s he was involved in trade union activities in opposition to the communist regime , and as a result was dismissed from several jobs . |
| 7 | A number of communities drew up counter-addresses in opposition to the High Church ones . |
| 8 | As is the case with the Semai and the Chewong , the Buid define their values in opposition to those of their aggressive lowland neighbours ( Dentan 1975 ; Howell , this volume ) . |
| 9 | Since then he had run a foreign policy unit in Moscow , and had helped found the Democratic Reform Movement , which had attempted to unite democratic groups in opposition to the Communist Party [ see p. 38347 ] . |
| 10 | Such knowledge may be deployed as resources to be mobilized by different occupational groups in opposition to the generalist management within the organization . |
| 11 | Secondly , and a slightly personal comment , one front- bencher was asked , er , about my comments in opposition to O M O V and in favour of trade union participation and he said John Edmunds is expressing his views , they are not the views of G M B members . |
| 12 | Not only that , but post-revolutionary France would have represented atheism at worst , Catholicism at best ; little wonder that a good Baptist lad , fired by an upsurge of patriotism which temporarily united all Englishmen in opposition to a common foe , should have joined the struggle . |
| 13 | Classical management theory emphasises the conscious creation of procedures in opposition to the interplay of unco-ordinated activities . |
| 14 | We could point out further that the ancient Israelites had not yet developed any notion of supernatural evil forces in opposition to God , and that this also encouraged them to see his hand in dark and terrible events . |
| 15 | Although the Council of Ireland proposal was by no means an open door to a united Ireland it would be enough to concentrate loyalist voters in opposition to the new proposals . |
| 16 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 17 | Mr Leigh also highlighted the tensions in Government by revealing that as a minister he had organised other meetings of junior ministers in opposition to the Maastricht Bill paving the way for closer European ties . |
| 18 | The parries in opposition to Government now decided to infiltrate the police and also to influence government servants . |
| 19 | However there is one powerful objection that must be considered , namely the so-called ‘ floodgates ’ argument , which is based on the fear that if such a concession were granted to war-tax protesters , the door would then be opened for other tax-refusal campaigns in opposition to various other governmental activities , including , perhaps , opposition to paying tax for welfare . |
| 20 | It included the need to separate officers from other ranks , and to place them in separate confinement ( the intention of this was to prevent the officers from leading their followers in opposition to the repatriations ) . |