put in opposition
Example Sentences
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And often these things are put in opposition to each other.
From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2021
This and that are frequently put in opposition to each other; this, to express what is nearer in place or time; that, what is more remote.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
We must stand by our Choice, we must stay together with those involved in that Choice and continue the Rejection or Discard of those who are thus put in opposition.
From Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration by C. J. Coffman
There was too sure a witness here for the decay of moral strength and health, when these could not merely be dissevered from beauty, but implicitly put in opposition to it.
From On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench
But how vain are the calculations of the greatest human intellects, when put in opposition to the overruling will of Omnipotence!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
