oppositionist

Example Sentences

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“Here is what happens when a nonsystem oppositionist supported by the American Embassy gains power,” military analyst Igor Korotchenko said on Russian state TV.

From Washington Post

The war, he said, would belatedly demonstrate “strength and resolve”: It would “sober up onlookers with oppositionist ambitions of their own, making them recalculate the odds of defying a power that has demonstrated its intention to remain a permanent and dynamic regional player.”

From Washington Post

A planned bombing in June 2018, thwarted by French security officials, could have killed scores of people, including prominent Americans, at an Iranian oppositionist rally outside Paris.

From Washington Post

Democrats, goaded into an oppositionist rut by the president’s harsh rhetoric and policies, are now at risk of being plausibly portrayed as a party indifferent to porous borders — a stance that is substantively wrong and could invite electoral disaster.

From Washington Post

But such scepticism is not in fact shared by most oppositionist and liberal Russians, including prominent anti-corruption campaigner and anti-Kremlin protest leader Alexei Navalny.

From BBC