opposer

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“If California legalizes sports gambling it becomes very unlikely that another state would arise as the consumer-oriented opposer of sports gambling.”

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

The sole opposer was outgoing council member Brandon Todd, Ward 4 Democrat.

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2020

He was a steadfast opposer of the proceedings of the courts during the witchcraft delusion in 1692.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

In Napoleon, we saw the triumphant opposer of all despots, and the restorer of order to his own disorganized and distracted subjects.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

But it was as an enemy to slavery, and the first practical opposer of its injustice and its cruelties, that Granville Sharp earned a foremost place in the great bede-roll of our English philanthropists.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter