set in opposition
Example Sentences
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Mr Brilliant says Harrods’ managers were set in opposition to each other and then expected to keep a watchful eye on their rivals.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
History tells us that Elizabeth and Mary were cousins set in opposition by their clashing religions, their royal parentage and their mutual desire to rule Britannia.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2011
For, as we have already stated, humanistic studies when set in opposition to study of nature are hampered.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
As a utilitarian, Mill cannot appeal to any rights of the individual that can be set in opposition to the public welfare.
From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)
Paronomasia, par-ō-nō-mā′zhi-a, n. a rhetorical figure in which words similar in sound but different in meaning are set in opposition to each other: a play upon words—also Paronom′asy.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
