in opposition

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in opposition (to someone or something)

against someone or something; opposing someone or something. You'll find that I'm firmly in opposition to any further expenditures. The council and the mayor are usually in opposition.

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Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context So that the man who should, for instance, go openly and knowingly in opposition to all that list would to your thinking, and indeed mine, too, of course, be an obscurantist or an absolute madman: would not he? Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context Kenn, after two years of superfluous incense from his feminine parishioners, to find them suddenly maintaining their views in opposition to his; but then they maintained them in opposition to a higher Authority, which they had venerated longer. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context More results

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Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power?

The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context

So that the man who should, for instance, go openly and knowingly in opposition to all that list would to your thinking, and indeed mine, too, of course, be an obscurantist or an absolute madman: would not he?

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

Kenn, after two years of superfluous incense from his feminine parishioners, to find them suddenly maintaining their views in opposition to his; but then they maintained them in opposition to a higher Authority, which they had venerated longer.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

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