set in opposition

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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

Military nations were not now engaged against an undisciplined and unwarlike people; nor heroes set in opposition to cowards.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David

They are plainly set in opposition against, and distinction from, church governors: they are called the flock; these, overseers set over them by the Holy Ghost, Acts xx.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

The prophets also set in opposition to their own traditional ritual religion a doctrine of righteousness, by which religion was made ethical.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham