in opposition to

Synonyms

contra unlike across opposed adjacent facing anti against versus no matter instead of

Antonyms

about between following given through apropos
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Examples

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age. Georg Brandes

I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed. Barack Obama

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. John Adams

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally. Eric Bogosian

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. Todd Gitlin

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. Derrick Jensen

Words in the phrase

in opposition to

Close letter words and terms

in openwork in operation in opposition in opposition to that in optimum in optimum conditions