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
In intellectual creatures, whose will is not set in opposition to God, the subject's good and the glory of the Lord finally coincide.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
And now we request the reader to mark one mighty result of the arrangement, which no other yet set in opposition to it could possibly produce.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
"And yet these results you venture to set in opposition to a simple, profound, imperative cry of Nature!"
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
