Example sentences of "in opposition to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freedom is not something that can be asserted in opposition to law ; it is the residue of conduct permitted in the sense that no statute or common-law rule prohibits it . |
| 2 | And is rote learning necessarily in opposition to discovery learning ? |
| 3 | The concept that Derrida uses in opposition to logocentrism of any kind is différance . |
| 4 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
| 5 | It certainly assisted in the development of Renamo in the 1980s as a terrorist group in opposition to government , albeit supported by South Africa . |
| 6 | The parries in opposition to Government now decided to infiltrate the police and also to influence government servants . |
| 7 | The protest was held in opposition to government plans to dismiss 25,000 state employees in order to reduce fiscal spending by 42 per cent . |
| 8 | In opposition to nationalism , however , there have been renewed attempts since 1945 to create supranational organizations , not only on a world scale through the establishment of the United Nations and its various agencies , but also on a regional basis . |
| 9 | Yet within two years three parties illegally took to the field in opposition to Tsarism , demonstrating the strength of feeling against the autocracy . |
| 10 | Congress , President , Ed , London Region Westminster Trade union Political Staffs Branch er , speaking on a free vote for the London Region but speaking in opposition to motion four one O. |
| 11 | The classical tradition held that Nature became beautiful only when subjected to reason ; the romantic view , that Nature was beautiful precisely because she was uncontrolled and was therefore in opposition to Reason . |
| 12 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 13 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sitte , in opposition to baroque and modern rectilinearity , advocated the Gothic free-form of mediaeval streets . |
| 16 | Unlike most forms of home territory , however , Ends are not colonized in opposition to authority . |
| 17 | UK alone in opposition to carbon tax |