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
“Action, when properly set in opposition to passion or passiveness,” says he, “is no real existence; it is not the same with an action, but is a mere relation.”
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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 David Hume
A lesser social enthusiasm was set in opposition to a greater, and the result was necessarily full of moral contradictions.
From Equality by Edward Bellamy
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