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

"And yet these results you venture to set in opposition to a simple, profound, imperative cry of Nature!"

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

There is a realm of Social Objectivity, a realm of organization, activity, purpose and power, not physical in character, not mechanical in nature, which is set in opposition to individual will, purpose, power, and activity.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

This salvation is set in opposition to that which was propounded before, by the ministration of angels, which consisted in a law of works; that which Moses received to give to the children of Israel.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John