How to Use in opposition to in a Sentence

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• Yet this wouldn’t be the first time a younger female artist found herself in opposition to Swift.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
• Parents and staff from the Shaw and Sumner schools have been vocal in opposition to the mergers.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• Parents and staff from the Shaw and Sumner schools have been vocal in opposition to the mergers.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• Uber and Lyft have both released statements in opposition to the measure.
  — Trisha Ahmed, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
• The motion passed even as thousands of people continued taking to the streets in opposition to the move.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 12 Mar. 2023
• Some left in opposition to their union’s politics and others to save on dues.
  — James O’Donnell, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2022
• All of those positions are in opposition to his church.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• Netanyahu put the overhaul on hold in March after mass protests erupted in opposition to it.
  — Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
• No one spoke in opposition to the bill, and there was none recorded in a committee bill analysis.
  — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024
• The United States needs to show that its interests are not in opposition to those of non-Western countries.
  — Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• The candidates onstage who have staked their campaigns in opposition to Trump are among the lowest-polling.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• Speakers in opposition to the plan questioned whether the board was listening to feedback.
  — Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
• Among them was one of the group’s active members, Jonathan Duncan, the only member of the council who has taken a public stance in opposition to the tax.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• The restrictions were in response to massive protests that swept across Hong Kong in 2019 in opposition to human rights crackdowns.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 26 Mar. 2023
• In the weeks since, dozens of residents have attended City Council meetings to speak in opposition to the billboards.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Democrats spoke in opposition to Paschal’s bill, which the House eventually set aside without taking a vote.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Since his time in L.A., if not before, Harris had defined himself in opposition to those around him—or, at least, those with power.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• However, when the whole House votes, just a few votes in opposition to a candidate from their own party could cost them the speakership.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The city must respond to each comment raised in opposition to the DEIR, which has the potential to prolong the certification process.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
• Democrats who spoke in opposition to the bill on Thursday pointed to a rise in child labor violations that already exist in the state.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil War, in part in opposition to slavery.
  — Abhinav S. Krishnan, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• Many attendees spoke in opposition to having the shelter beds in the city, making the scene similar to a meeting last year in Lakeside.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• The pardon comes as Texas has been in the midst of another round of public protests, this time on college campuses in opposition to Israel’s actions in the Gaza war.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• This week’s elections are taking place more than a year after mass protests rocked the country in 2022, in opposition to the hijab law and other social issues.
  — Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• The think tank, which was founded in 1973, formed in opposition to Richard Nixon’s and Gerald Ford’s administrations.
  — E.j. Fagan, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2024
• Since 2013, proposed aid-in-dying bills have brought hundreds to the State Capitol to testify in favor of or in opposition to the proposal.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
• Many public figures have come out in opposition to the Court’s ruling, including Charles Barkley, 60.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
• More than 20 people spoke during a 90-minute public hearing at the commission meeting today, all of them in opposition to the plan.
  — Mary Helene Hall | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• But the standards were developed in concert with the automakers, not in opposition to them, and, if anything, the Biden administration eased up on the standards in the first few years.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
• That will almost certainly be a factor in opposition to Harris, as well.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024