set in opposition
Example Sentences
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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
President Edwards cannot escape the absurdity of his doctrine by alleging, that when action and passion are set in opposition, they do not signify opposite natures, but only opposite relations.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
I must own, ,Sir, I think that Sylla and my father ought to be set in opposition rather than paralleled.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
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
