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
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
A force of equal quality is to be divided and the two parts to be set in opposition to each other.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)
The fall of Huerta was283 potent proof that no ruler could survive in Mexico if the Government at Washington was set in opposition to him.
From Steve Yeager by Raine, William MacLeod
