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Similar words: opposesupposedlyoppositionsupposeproposedopponentopportunityposeMeaning: [ə'pəʊzd]  adj. 1. in opposition to (a policy or attitude etc.) 2. being in opposition or having an opponent. 
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151. The generally accepted view is that the people of Lewis opposed Lord Leverhulme's schemes.
152. A qualified audit report, as opposed to an unqualified report, should leave the reader in no doubt as to its meaning and implications.
153. Of the 92 cases resolved during the year, only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement.
154. He is vehemently opposed to abortion,[www.Sentencedict.com] gay rights and many aspirations of the Third World.
155. Development plans by government agencies which were opposed by the Park would require parliamentary approval.
156. Traditionally, Democrats opposed any limits or bans on PACs and Republicans opposed any limit on overall spending.
157. The classification exercise provides another arena for the conflicting points of view as to the relative importance of good people as opposed to good systems.
158. His address book; the clothes he'd bought with his own money as opposed to hers; his spare spectacles; his cigarettes.
159. And he was right in attributing importance to ideas as opposed to the simple influence of pecuniary vested intereSt.
160. Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
161. Not according to a Texas case where officials prohibited armbands because they expected those who opposed the armbands to cause disruption.
162. Their business now is to provide banking and financial services to the corporate as opposed to personal sectors.
163. See, e-mail is a baked potato chip as opposed to a greasy, fried one.
164. It was difficult working at central office among people who had bitterly opposed our plan.
165. The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming.
166. After 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.
167. It is likely that the report will provide added ammunition to environmentalists who have for long opposed the blanket afforestation of uplands.
168. Prominent anti-abortion activists in the party had opposed the resolution, because it might prove embarrassing.
169. His evil and bestial nature stands directly opposed to our just and civilised culture.
170. Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience.
171. There was a general acceptance of the need for further and continuing training with greater emphasis on efficient production as opposed to increased production.
172. Many AIDS activists have opposed home test kits, because they feared people would receive inadequate counseling.
173. Lachrymose comedy represented an attitude opposed to the aristocratic one.
174. Both Texas senators, Phil Gramm and Hutchison, voted against tabling the amendment because they opposed the measures.
175. Sixty-four percent said they opposed an amendment, 28 percent said they favored the proposal.
176. Consequently it was bitterly opposed by some of the bishops.
177. A total ban might also be opposed as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
178. Hence he attaches importance to spending more of the government's research cash in industry as opposed to within the government's own establishments.
179. He said he voted against the crime bill because it included items he opposed, such as midnight basketball programs.
180. His strategy of seeking an accommodation with Labour was bitterly opposed by many Liberals.
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