Example sentences of "[adj] opposition " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its popular president , Yoweri Museveni , appears to have persuaded Britain that unbanning opposition parties would , for now , be an unnecessary distraction . |
| 2 | The controversy is also seriously embarrassing leaders of India 's mainstream opposition alliance . |
| 3 | And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government to seek and obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament . |
| 4 | It is generally agreed that opposition success in the election will depend on a unified challenge to Congress , especially in the densely-populated Hindi-speaking states of the north . |
| 5 | Eliot 's Murder demonstrates his agreement with that opposition . |
| 6 | Officials fear that opposition groups , especially Islamic fundamentalists , will exploit the crisis to increase their influence and , indeed , several opposition leaders have quickly realised that political capital can be made by following the public mood . |
| 7 | The objective of the Commission was that ‘ young people should leave a school with some confidence in their ability to participate in their society , to resolve conflict and , if they oppose a course of action , to express that opposition fairly , effectively and peacefully ’ . |
| 8 | A further parallel with judicial proceedings is that opposition may be dropped and the matter settled on the basis of some concession or undertaking granted by the promoters or their agents . |
| 9 | The first two parts of Alan Sharp 's extraordinary trilogy , A Green Tree in Gedde and The Wind Shifts , gave that opposition its densest and most historically self-conscious elaboration . |
| 10 | That opposition began locally with a meeting in Fintown , Co . |
| 11 | The carefully worked-out plan of the military plotters was for as swift a takeover as possible ; if , however , the ideal was a classic pronunciamiento along the lines of 1923 , General Mola was not alone in appreciating that times had changed and that opposition would have to be overcome . |
| 12 | While it is the task of oppositions to oppose , the veracity of that opposition is dependent on the mass media , just as public judgements about the competence of that opposition rely on information derived from the mass media . |
| 13 | While it is the task of oppositions to oppose , the veracity of that opposition is dependent on the mass media , just as public judgements about the competence of that opposition rely on information derived from the mass media . |
| 14 | British Telecommunications Plc yesterday came out fighting in its ‘ we are more liberal than what you are ’ playground war of words with AT&T Co , saying that opposition to its application to offer services in the US attempts to exploit regulatory procedures and distort the issues in order to delay the application , Reuter reports from Washington . |
| 15 | Optimists had hoped the answer was that opposition would ebb of its own accord as evidence of growth began . |
| 16 | Both responded by embracing democratic consensus so wholeheartedly that opposition became synonymous with either irresponsibility or extremism . |
| 17 | That opposition is a neat one , and neatness in verbal formulations commonly arouses suspicion . |
| 18 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 19 | It would , for example , be quite wrong to imagine that opposition to the Copernican theory derived only from religious prejudice . |
| 20 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 21 | In addition the opposition to the belief that studies of Language , Linguistics-based , should be part of the pre-service of teachers , that opposition that was at the time principled , serious and rigorously expressed and is still unanswered . |
| 22 | That opposition urged that all that was necessary was already being done . |
| 23 | This defeat of the most successful application of Communist party popular front tactics appeared to demonstrate that opposition forces within Latin America ( backed up by the United States ) were too powerful for such a strategy to be ultimately successful . |
| 24 | In each they struggled with considerable success to overcome that opposition . |
| 25 | If Milton adopts a high style which allows him to voice opposition to Restoration politics , is that opposition not contained by this style , one perceived as normally expressing the values of the elite ? |
| 26 | Is not it time that Opposition Members realised that there is an absolute necessity for young people to grow up with respect for the law , property and persons ? |
| 27 | It is clear , despite all their words , that Opposition Members would have done nothing different . |
| 28 | It used to be that Opposition spokesmen quoted figures that were four years out of date , but the hon. Gentleman depends on statistics that go back 10 years . |
| 29 | It is about time that Opposition Members reconsidered this matter . |
| 30 | What I find so extraordinary is that Opposition Members are so keen to place with trade unions abroad so much of the authority on labour law matters that resides in this House . |