Oppositions

Word OPPOSITIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Oppositions"

What do we mean by oppositions?

The action of opposing or of being in conflict.

An opposite or contrasting position.

The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.

A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.

In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.

A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.

The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.

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The word "oppositions" in example sentences

So Republicans are "united in oppositions against" once again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

WOLFOWITZ: But, you know, I understand the concern about meddling in a way that seems to label the oppositions on Americans, too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wasn't privileging "refinement" over "baseness," merely pointing out that they often exist within each other as within a suspension, and that they shouldn't be seen as pure oppositions, which is too often the way that certain contemporary theorizations of the grotesque cast it Johannes Gorranson's, for instance. ❋ Dodie Bellamy (2008)

It is most unlikely that the word "oppositions" can refer to a book bearing that title. ❋ Leighton Pullan (1902)

But we must proceed to attack our opponents, in the endeavour to confute those "oppositions" advanced against us which are derived from ❋ Unknown (1895)

Thus, in the creed, contrary to the "oppositions" (the germs of which probably existed in the Church in Paul's latter days) whereby the aeons were set off in pairs, God is stated to be "the Father Almighty," or all-governing "maker of heaven and earth" [Bishop Hinds]. ❋ Unknown (1871)

He has had all kind of oppositions since he began to walk the life-path -- prejudice, poverty, ill-providence, all seemed to conspire against him; but as ever, they only tended to develop the latent talent of his soul. ❋ Benjamin Tucker (1867)

The same kind of oppositions were faced when this Left Front of WB initiated the Land reforms and Rural developments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To an outsider, their rapid-fire talk of "oppositions," "ascents" and "transits" was akin to listening in on a macro-economic conference - a language of numbers, signs and symbols well beyond the ken of the casual listener. ❋ Record Online (2008)

However, if she is trying to make herself ans the face of conservative oppositions ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our political landscape is littered with false binary oppositions that involve “us” vs “them”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And several leftist and Islamist oppositions parties, banned under Ben Ali, were not included in the new Cabinet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The next time we will ever hear two sides to the story and value the oppositions view will be in 2010. mark ❋ Unknown (2009)

The more closely I looked, the more surprising and intricate I realized many of those connections were—and sometimes the connections took the form of oppositions. ❋ Joseph Pierce Farrell (2011)

Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What's more, he discovered through his wide-ranging and exhaustive study of myths including stories like the Oedipus tale, that "mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution," which in plain language means simply a story or myth seeks to, in one way or another, make peace between the binaries it presents. ❋ Claudia Ricci (2011)

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