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

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 Trench, Richard Chenevix

At the first look it seems very promising that in the old dialogue of Aristo of Pella, a Hebrew Christian, Jason, is put in opposition to the Alexandrian Jew, Papiscus.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

Dr. Warburton has very happily observed, that O sweet Oliver is a quotation from an old song; I believe there are two quotations put in opposition to each other.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel

This determines that the words, but deceiveth his own heart, are not put in opposition to seemeth to be religious, but to bridleth not his tongue. 

From Human Nature and Other Sermons by Morley, Henry